THIS IS A STORY whose happenstance did occur to its young protagonist on one recent morning in the year 20__, on the fair streets of B______. (Whoops, sorry, my underline button got stuck. It was last Sunday in Boston.) My name is Cedric, and I found myself at loose ends on this particular Sunday after cutting out early from a comic book convention at the downtown Ramada Inn, which, to my utter dismay, turned out to be full of nerds. Being as it was spring, my thoughts found themselves turning to pretty girls and the soft sighing landscapes that I had heard from friends and family could be located beneath their frilly outer garments. So I hopped a streetcar named Perversion and decided to greet the afternoon with a little erotic massage.
For me, there was only one place a man could go and get a first rate rubdown and pay a perfectly reasonable rate for a little "extra topping"โthe Saucy Pear Spa and Sauna, down on Zang Street. If I were to become a rich man (which should happen in the next few years if my boss at The Round and Flat Cookie Company gives me that quarter raise I've been hoping for, then commences to suddenly die and mysteriously leave the business and all his personal holdings to me alone out of the sixteen doomed souls trapped there at the food court with me), I would spend at least three spring evenings a week at the Saucy Pear, and pass the other four by writing sonnets about the touchifying I've received therein. I've tried other massage parlors for a quick sexual fix, but in all my experiences, the dispositions of the women left something to be desired, in roughly the same way that the killing fields of Pol Pot left something to be desired. I mean, is it too much to ask that a woman offer me some little white falsehoods about the size of my executive producer as she strokes it, instead of checking her watch constantly and saying "I can't believe it's freaking May already?"
So on the day in question, I walked cheerfully into the Saucy Pear and sidled up to the front counter to greet Rose, a slim and kindly waif from the local university whom I'd been trying to coax into giving me a massage of her own on a strictly non-professional basis. So far, the rejections she'd offered me had stopped just short of including the phrase "Not in a billion years, retard", so I remained hopeful. Today, however, enthused as I was about the forthcoming erotic buffet, I cooled my heels a bit and simply told her I wanted the 'usual', a phrase which had absolutely no meaning but which made me feel very cosmopolitan, and not so much like the horny, semi-employed couch toad I really was.
"You'll be with Jenny today then, if that's okay," Rose said. Hell, it was more than okay. It was about as okay as Willy Wonka building me a great glass elevator in which I could soar through the sky while looking down at my brand new candy factoryโTHAT kind of okay. I had been with Jenny three or four times in the past year, and my hour with her invariably concluded with local air traffic controllers advising low-flying jets to be aware of sudden sperm formations which had suddenly erupted dangerously into the atmosphere.
Jenny came out into the lobby wearing fishnet stockings and red satin lingerie, flashing her two thousand-watt smile and taking my hand to lead me back to good old Room Twelve. Let me just take a moment here to describe Jenny. Her shoulder-length black hair was so shiny and flawless that I sometimes thought I could see my erection standing straight up in its reflection. Her eyes were the aqua blue of the water of the cleanest toilet bowl imaginable, and to merely touch her skin, which was as creamy as brand name yogurt, was to have a tantalizing brush with an electrical current that ran straight from my fingertips down through my longshoreman and out its tip in the form of strawberry-scented steam. While her mouth often uttered phrases like "Good morning" and "Nice weather we're having", her pouty ruby lips seemed to physically yearn to alter those meaningless syllables into proclamations of love, romance, and copious swallowing. And her frontnotโno, don't get me started on her frontnot. Seriously. No, I mean it, because I'll be here all day, I'm not kidding. Come on, let it go, already, I'm trying to tell a story here!
We exchanged some friendly words and I proceeded to disrobe and lay down on the massage table, the opulent evidence of my horniness already pointed toward Mars. Jenny rubbed some warm oil onto her hands and then the festival began. Leaning over me with her voluminous moon pies just inches from my face, she commenced to rub me down, first doing my chest, then my legs, then my feet, then my eenie weenie toesies. My McStewart was desperately trying to hail the next cab toward her sultry fingers but she of course took her sweet time before going anywhere near Citizen Kane. Fifteen, twenty minutes went by as we chatted about sports and politics and wondered aloud why it took mankind so many thousands of years to invent something so goddamned simple and obvious as the sandwich. She rubbed my butt, she rubbed my neck, she rubbed all my rubbilicious rubby places with the most gentle rubbiness imaginable. All the while I gaped open-mouthed at her big beams and the promising patch of dark hair visible through her filmy panties, which I had never been able to touch, and access to which was simply not possible for the lousy hundred bucks I could afford to plop down once every six to eight weeks.
Thirty minutes into the massage session, Jenny began her trademark salty talk, an arousal technique which was hardly necessary in my hardened state but which was always appreciated all the same.
"You have a very nice body," she began predictably, making sure her eyes were wandering the full length of Ambassador Willingham.
"Thanks, Jenny," I replied, closing my eyes temporarily to soak in the sweet lies she offered at no extra charge.
"I'll bet you have a lot of girlfriends, Cedric."
"Me? Oh, no, not really. Not too many. The usual, I guess. By which I mean, none. Zero. I had one until last September, but she broke up with me. I don't really even know what went wrong. She left me a note but all she wrote was that she couldn't stand the way I ate fried chicken anymore, and she took off."
"Wow, that's really amazing. How could any woman resist you? I mean, if you don't mind my saying so, your penis is so beautiful...."
"Well, thanks. You know, I work on it a lot."
"Is there anything else you'd like me to do for you today?" she asked. "I can touch you in any way you like."
"Well, now that you mention it, Jenny," I informed her, "I find myself in the need of some relief today of a handular nature. Think you're up to it?"
"Oh, I think so," she said, and cupped one divine palm on my keeblers while the other took my Los Angeles Dodger firmly and proudly in its angelic possession. The sensation of this could most accurately be described using the following nonsense syllables, presented here in no particular order: OOO AHH GAR WUH NIM HUH SEP BUH AAHHHH.