I had a funny experience around ordering a sex toy I've been wanting. First a brief background of why I ordered this toy.
For many years, I've had my eye on a fairly expensive sex toy, but couldn't justify getting it with other debts and expenses. There's also been a fair bit of shyness or embarrassment around ordering this particular sex toy, a Realdoe. It's well designed, well made, and has some unique patents, so it's not an inexpensive purchase either. So I haven't just run out and bought one on a whim. It's a strapless strap-on, primarily designed for women to have penetrating sex, without the (for some) unsexy appearance of a strap on harness, and with the bonus of penetration for both partners.
But it's not just for lesbians. It can also be used by a man in a number of scenarios, so it's had appeal for me for a long time. It could be used for pegging, which I've been curious to have tried on me. Or, I could put the bulb of the Reeldoe in my ass, and then penetrate my wife front or rear This has submissive possibilities that could allow her pleasure and deny mine. She could even use it as a handle during missionary sex where she holds the bulb and thrusts the horse in my ass to control my movement.
The other main potential use I have thought about is as an oral toy for me. I have often fantasized about submitting to my wife by being "forced" to give oral sex to one of our male friends. But in reality, that may never happen, so in the meantime I can use the Realdoe to practice giving oral sex.
I've discussed all these scenarios with my wife, but no one else, and I've been pretty reticent about getting one for the cost and embarrassment reasons.
Well, I finally decided to order one last week as a present for myself. I had discussed it in general with my wife, but didn't tell her I actually ordered it until the deed was done. The company is apparently very prompt about shipping, but doesn't send email updates with tracking numbers, etc. So I didn't know when it would get here. They are in Florida, and I'm in California, so if it was going to come by UPS ground, for example, it might take a week or more, who knows. Again, I didn't know from the order which method would be used for shipping. So I started looking for the delivery on Monday. With all the expectation, and potential embarrassment, what if someone visiting our home - or one of my adult kids -sees the thing? I can't imagine what shade I would blush.
I had all sorts of fleeting worries about the shipment getting lost, or falling into the wrong embarrassing hands, or in some other way having it come out that, "Hey, look who ordered a massive lesbian vibrating cock, and for all we know he's going to use it in his ass, hahahaha". I would want to just die and bury my head deep in the ground.
We live in a townhouse, so there is a common path in the townhouse complex that goes by our front door, and it gets lots of traffic. One potential is that it would get left by the door, stolen by a neighbor, or a guest of a neighbor, and then once opened, would provide for funny looks, or worries about what a pervert I am, or who knows what? Or maybe there's a big picture on the side of the contents. Or a label saying that it was shipped from the Florida lesbian strapless dildo company! In my completely irrational paranoia, I just knew all my neighbors were going to somehow find out, and would immediately put it all together, and talk about it constantly. As if they even give a rat's ass.
Not having seen or heard from the vendor by Monday, I started checking mail and our porch. I pulled in the garage after work, walked in the back door, and went to look for a delivery out front. I opened the door and my heart stopped a beat, because the box was there, the right size, sitting on the mat.
Oh jeez. Here we go.
But when I picked it up, it was something innocuous for my wife, and not the sex toy of the century. Disappointment, as well as relief. Sigh.
I then realized that I hadn't gotten the mail. In the mail box, there was a notice from USPS saying they had attempted to deliver a package, and it required a signature.
WTF? I've got to sign for the freaking dildo? Can't they just discreetly leave the box in a shady corner, avert their eyes, and use some sort of cloaking technology to prevent the prying eyes of neighbors from knowing? Do I actually have to show up in person at the post office, and ask a clerk to hand me my dildo face to face? Really? What if our hands touch during the exchange? Does that obligate me to call them the next day and thank them? All I can say is if they're expecting flowers, forget it.
After bringing in the mail, I tucked the post office slip in my wallet so I would remember it the next morning, but left it out enough so I'd see it when I picked up my wallet when getting ready for work.
At that point, my wife called. "I'm running late. Can you pick us up something for dinner?"
"I can get Chipotle. Do you want the usual salad?" I offered.
"That sounds awesome. Thanks Babe!"
About fifteen to twenty minutes later, I was leaving the restaurant, and putting the receipt and my wallet in my pocket. As I was juggling wallet, receipt, food, and keys, I dropped the package notice on the ground, and only just barely saw it out of the corner of my eye as it fell.
Wouldn't that be great? Some stranger finds the notice, picks up the package, and knows it was supposed to be for me? Best case, at that point, they keep it, and we never know each other. I'd rather order a new one and waste the money than face the humiliation of getting it back. Worst case, they get it, open it, and then make the effort to return it.
I can just hear the helpful neighbor calling me and saying, "Um, if you'd like to come here to my house, right by the elementary school and local convent, and pick it up, my religious granny will be here to answer the door around 7 ish? Of course she'll have a few questions for you." As in, the Church Lady from Dana Carvey's skits on SNL.
No, thank God, I saw the slip, looked around, as if anyone would know what it was for, and gratefully got into my car.