The chant went all around the streets, "Weatherfield, Weatherfield, Weatherfield." The locals were ecstatic, the local football team, Weatherfield County, had beaten a higher ranked local team, and bitter rivals in a Manchester cup competition.
Every pub and bar in the area was packed with fans. The Rovers Return on Coronation Street was no exception.
Packed with excited and thirsty fans, the pub was extremely busy and the landlady, Jenny Conner and her sole bar staff, Emma Brooker were barely coping with demand.
Eventually, around midnight the pair finally got the glasses, washed, dried and stored away.
"Leave the tables, the cleaner can do them in the morning, I need wine, and I need it now." Said Jenny, the landlady.
She took a very chilled bottle of Pinot out of the fridge and said to Emma, "want to join me? I think we've earned this."
Emma was tired from a very busy shift and said, "thanks Mrs. Conner, but I will pass this time, I really need my bed."
"Oh come on Emma, just one drink, I hate drinking on my own." Said Jenny pleadingly.
Reluctantly Emma followed Jenny into the back lounge of the pub.
Jenny poured two large glasses of the wine, and handed one to Emma.
"Cheers," said Jenny as she clinked her glass to Emma's.
"Well that was a last hour to remember, I bet you will enjoy counting the profits." Said Emma.
Jenny said,"Johnny picks his time to visit relatives in Ireland, and Sean with his hot date, left us in the lurch, but we managed, didn't we?"
A smiling Emma replied, "we sure did, the A team!"
Following some small talk, Jenny refilled their glasses and asked, "So young lady, hows your love life?"
Emma, a beautiful mixed race eighteen year old had been dating local boy, Seb Franklin for a few months.
"Okay, I suppose, " replied Emma, then continued, "you know Seb is HIV positive, so wears a condom when we make love. Well, he is terrified it may split or come off, so we don't, you know."
Jenny replied,"Oh, that's terrible, you need a good sex life at your age," then laughed and said, "or any age to to think about it."
"So what about you and Johnny?" Asked Emma, the wine making her a little bolder than she usually was.
"Well, where do I begin?" Said Jenny, reaching for the bottle and adding wine to her glass.
"At first, it was brilliant, we were like teenagers, at it all the time." Jenny said, then realised what Emma had just told her, and then said, "oh I am sorry, sweetheart, I didn't think."
Emma reached over and touched her bosses hand, saying, "that's ok, carry on."
A smiling Jenny continued, "as you know, Johnny is a little bit older than me, and as you will find out, men of a certain age can't, you know, stay erect for as long."
"So what do you do?" Asked Emma.
The wine had quickly gone to Jenny's head and she was feeling that she could talk about her sex life to a comparative stranger. "Well," she began, "I ,you know, with my hand."
Emma smiled and said, "Seb loves it when I do that, go on."
"And of course orally," the words escaping from her lips, almost before she had thought about the reaction she would get. What would an eighteen year old think of a woman of her age, she was forty eight, giving oral sex to her husband.
"Oh I love giving blow jobs, I bet Mr.Conner does too." Emma interrupted, then corrected herself, "I mean receiving them, not giving."
Rather taken aback Jenny said, "what about Seb orally to you?"
With a sigh, Emma replied, "He can't, transfer of fluids, and all that, and you?"