Believe it or not, I'm not a peeping Tom.
Not by nature, at any rate.
But what are you going to do when a shapely and attractive woman parades herself in front of her large picture window for all the world to see?
Here's the set-up. I live in a big apartment building that's really two buildings in one, divided by a "courtyard"âif you can call it thatâthat looks like something out of
Metropolis
or
Brazil.
It's not meant to be used or even occupied by any of the tenants, and in fact there's no convenient access to it; which is no doubt why the lady in question feels no compunction displaying herself in the buff in front of her window. She's in the south building, her window facing north, and I'm in the north building, my window facing south. So I have what might be called a front-row seat.
Now you gotta understand that I'm really not interested in naked ladies. Well, of course I am, but I'm not exactly going to do something illegal to get an eyeful of them. But this woman seems to have no shameâor, perhaps, no interestâin what she is doing.
The first time I saw her was when I got up way earlier than usualâfor meâto relieve myself. I work freelance, so I don't have to hit the pavement with all the other wage-slaves of the world; but the call of nature is imperious, and my bathroom is located in such a way that I have to cross the living roomâand
my
large picture windowâto get to it. And as I was going there, or maybe coming back, there she was.
She clearly
was
a wage-slave, although perhaps a somewhat more classy one than usual. So far as I could tell, she had a full-length mirror set up in her living room, and when she came out of
her
bathroom she went right up to it. She had nothing on. Her apartment is one floor above mine, so I couldn't quite see her full figure: the best I could see was her up to her knees. But that was good enough. She was slim, curvy, blonde, with incredibly erect tits and a bush that could have been a kind of Amazon jungle for any tics and lice that I'm sure were not there. In these days of shaved pussies it's been a long time since I saw a lush delta like that. I took her to be in her later thirties.
Why she didn't dress, or put her makeup on, in the privacy of her bathroom or bedroom was anyone's guess. She was entirely unself-conscious about walking around without any clothes on and with the curtains wide open. She simply didn't care. I don't think she was an exhibitionist: she was (peculiar as this may sound) too
self-centered
to be. I never saw her standing directly in front of her window and saying, in effect, "C'mon, guys, look at my hot bod!" She knew she had a hot bod, and couldn't be troubled to interest or tease anyone who might be trying to take it all in.
So it happened that for the most part I saw her only in profile. That's how I could tell she had fabulous boobs that didn't need a bra to hold them up, and a lovely curved butt without an ounce of fat, and that dense forest of dark fur at her groin. When she leaned over to the mirror to put the finishing touches on her face, I thought I would just about explode.
Then she crisply put on a power business suit, slipped on her shoes, and got the hell out of there. It was twenty to nine. However high-powered an executive she may have been, she didn't want to be late.
So what do you think I did after that? Yep, you got it in one: from that day forward, I set my own alarm for about eight a.m. and took in the view. Day after day it was pretty much the same: she would come out of her shower at around 8:15, go naked to her kitchen to make some coffee, and while that was brewing she would make up her face. She taught me how some women put on a bra, clasping it in front and then spinning it around to put the straps on. Very cleverâI would never have thought of that. I guess that's why I don't wear a bra. And I swear to you that one time she actually combed her bush. I'm sure I'd never seen
that
before.
It's pretty interesting to try to figure out a person's life, mood, and character just based on seeing themâwhether naked or notâwithout hearing a word they say. After a while I got to know this broad pretty well. Usually she'd come home around 5:30., make dinner, watch TV, or read a book or magazineânothing unusual. Sometimes she'd have people over, although usually no more than four, since all our apartments are pretty small. On weekends she might dress in a light cotton dress and wear a bonnet. Once or twice she dressed up in tennis gear.
Then, of course, there was her husband.
Sorry I forgot to mention him; naturally, he didn't figure very much in my thoughts. But he was thereâor at least someone I took to be a husband of some kind. I hate to say this, but in some ways he was more interesting than she was. I will confess that he wasn't exactly appealing physicallyâbalding, paunchy, with one of those loosely hung faces that look too big for the body it's attached to. He seemed older than herâmaybe mid-forties or even more. I could never figure out exactly what he did, if he did anything. Sometimes he went out of the place in the morning, but most times not. He didn't seem to have a regular job. Many times he wouldn't even be up before she left the house. And on those times that he was, he would just lounge on the sofa and read the paperâthat's right,
read the paper
âwhile she paraded around naked in front of him and everybody else.
What gives here? Is this what marriage does to you? I wanted to go right over there and throttle the poor bastard, saying:
What do you think you're doing, guy? You can get an eyeful of the most luscious eye-candy that ever fell into a man's lap, and you're seeing whether your stocks went up a fraction of a point yesterday.
(Actually, they were probably
her