Sometimes things just don't turn out the way you expect them to. A guy from work had been flirting with me for the past couple of months. He was single, not bad looking and gainfully employed. On top of that he was personable and friendly and, even while flirting, didn't push past a certain line. I finally capitulated and agreed to dinner and a movie.
Nasty shock number one. When he arrived to pick me up it was obvious that he'd had a drink or two. He seemed to hold it OK and we were using a taxi so I didn't worry too much, but it was a strike against him. Nasty shock number two. He drank steadily through dinner. I had a glass of wine. He had several whiskeys and was moving well past the holding it OK stage. So that was his second strike. Nasty shock number three which was also strike three was the movie. As soon as we sat down, even before the lights were dimmed, he was all over me.
We should have gone and watched Spiderman, because I had my own personal Doctor Octopus sitting right next to me. First I was just fending off his hands but then he started explaining in explicit detail what he was going to do once the lights went out. I excused myself to visit the little girl's room, called a taxi, and never looked back.
Back home I moped around for a while and finished up going to bed early. My flat-mates were double dating that evening, going to some party, and I wasn't expecting them home for hours. This resulted in a bit of a surprise when they returned around eleven. I heard the front door open. What I didn't hear was the girls chattering away. I heard male voices.
I eased quietly over to peep out of my bedroom door to see what the hell was going on. Mike and George, the girl's dates, were carrying Jan and Suzy through to their bedroom, both girls appearing to be out cold.
I was wondering what the hell and flapping my ears as hard as I could, trying to hear what the boys were saying. The conversation went something like this.
"Just dump them on the beds. I guess we should take their shoes off."
"I'd like to strip them and leave them there naked. They'll wake up in the morning and spend the rest of the day wondering did we or didn't we?"
"It'd be fun but they would be oh, so pissed if we did."
"As opposed to being oh, so plastered the way they are now?"
Both boys laughed.
"If I ever catch the bastard I'm going to dangle him from a flagpole by his googlies."
OK. I had to know what had happened. My flatmates never got plastered. Or not when out on dates.
"Mike, George," I said, standing in the doorway observing the boys observing the girls. "Care to explain this little debacle?"
"Oh, hi, Elsie," said George. "Um, Jan and Suzie had a little too much to drink."
"So I see. And how did that come about?"
"It was the fruit punch," said Mike mournfully. "It was mildly alcoholic and all the girls were knocking it back. They thought it was terrific. We didn't touch it because, after all, who wants a girl's fruity drink. We had a beer. Next thing we know girls were dropping like flies. Some swine poured three bottles of 100 proof Vodka into the punch. The girls put the extra tang down to the fresh pineapple floating in the punch. With most of the girls rolling around the party sort of broke up early. We're doing the gentlemanly thing by bringing the girls home and putting them to bed."
"So the night's ending is exactly as you wanted it to be," I said, tongue in cheek.
"Well, close maybe, but not quite what I hoped for," George retorted, smirking.
I'll bet. He's always trying to get into Suzy's pants. A very horny young man. I'm pretty sure he's succeeded in his objective a time or two.
"Anyway, how come you're home? I thought you had a hot date with a honey from work?"