It was one of those steamy Mississippi days, when the temperature soared along with the humidity and Davenport, Iowa, baked hot and damp. It was so fuckin' miserable that I even went into the mall to get out of the dampness. Thank goodness!
I parked my old Dodge Challenger β yep, like the Vanishing Point model but lovingly restored β and walked as fast as I could into the air-conditioned relief that even fuckin' useless malls provide. It was a Saturday, I was wearing a brand-new white T-shirt that was sticking to me, jeans and Sperry Top Siders. Even though I'm 40, I've got a body that's still cut and as toned as it was when I was in the Marine Corps.
My dark hair is shaved back and I've got an uncanny resemblance to Bruce Willis β so much so that the assholes who work for my 15-truck towing company call me "Bruce" behind my back. Bruce fuckin' Willis, I ask you. I could take him with one hand tied behind my proverbial back. Take the bodyguards away from those Hollywood pantywaists and they're all pussies.
Anyways, I was strolling down one huge aisle, not really looking for anything, just glad to be out of the heat until I could line up in my favorite spot for a couple of ales, when I spotted this fuckin' vision.
She was blonde, long blonde hair, like a fuckin' wheat field, dressed in light blue jeans that coulda been sprayed on her lush buttocks, little black high heels that took her height up to about 5 foot 9 inches, and a tight red T-shirt that displayed the outlines of fantastic 34-inch boobs β turns out they were 34Ds!
I had to get alongside or up ahead of this doll to check out her face β dunno about you, but I'm a face man. You can be built like Charlize Theron, but if you look like Roseanne fuckin' Barr you can just keep on walkin', as far as I'm concerned. So I get ahead of her and step to a window β a fuckin' lingerie shop, as luck would have it β and looked back at the face on the vision.
I damn near choked on my gum! The blonde prancing along the mall and approaching a coffee shop set off in a corner of a large recess was a spitting image of Sandee Westgate! Now I don't know 'bout you, but Sandee or Sandra or whatever she calls herself, is one of the horniest looking babes ever!
She does some explicit pictures for some website, or so I'm told, but the only pictures I've ever downloaded from the net of her are from a lingerie site. She's got the greatest body you've ever seen on a lingerie model. As in 34D-23-34 great. And you know what numbers like that add up to! Well, in my case, a lot of pud stroking since my fuckin' wife left me for some slimy-assed accountant from Des Moines.
After the Sandee Westgate look-alike had gone into the coffee shop, I followed her and heard her order a Mocha coffee and a chocolate frosted donut. I ordered a Mocha, too. Hell, I didn't know what the fuck it was, OK?
She got her drink and the donut and sat down at a window table. The place was pretty crowded, so when I got my Mocha, I moved over and put my mug down opposite hers and sat down, bold as fuckin' brass. Hey, I'm in the tow truck business, we're not exactly slow in coming forward, if you get my drift.
Before she could say "Fuck off", I moved right on in.
"Betcha you get a load of people come up and say 'You ever been told you look just like Sandee Westgate?" I said, in my deepest dark brown drawl.
This brown-eyed doll looked calmly at me, didn't say "Fuck off" but actually smiled!
"It's been said before," she said, in a soft, Californian accent, if there is such a thing. All I know is it didn't sound anything like what folks speak around Davenport, Iowa!
I grinned, not really knowing where to go from there, so I told her my name. "Hi," I said, "my name's Al, and I run a local tow truck firm."
"Al?" she smiled, her brown eyes twinkling. "Betcha a lot of people come up to you and say 'You ever been told you look like Bruce Willis?' Eh, Al?"
And I may only be a lowly tow truck man, but I know when I'm having the piss taken out of me! I laughed it off: "Sure, and my employees call me Bruce behind my back. But they sure as hell don't dare call me it front of my face!"
She smiled again. "A tow truck man, eh, Al? Well, I guess one of your boys could well have towed me to the repair shop when I broke down on the interstate a couple of hours ago. My darn car is being fixed now, that's why I'm in this fucking dump."
"What's the make of car and where'd it get towed to?" I asked, pulling my mobile from my jeans pocket.
"It's an Aston Martin Vantage and it died on me," said the blonde vision. "Where they took it I'm not sure. The slip of paper's in my drawer back at the motel."
I punched in my code for work and got Ringo, the lazy cunt. "Ringo? We tow an Aston Martin Vantage today, 'bout two hours back?"
Ringo spoke and I cut the connection. "Sure, we towed you, Ms Westgate," I said, now absolutely certain it was her β the Aston Martin tipped me the wink. "I'll call the place we took it to, get the story."
Then Ms Westgate placed a cool hand on mine β it was the loveliest hand I've ever had laid on me β and grinned: "Al, I'm so sorry I was sarcastic. I really think you look nice and I'm just so pissed at being stuck here. Apology accepted?"
I grinned what I hoped was my sincere but tough smile. "Apology accepted β now let's see what the news is with your little ole Aston."
Sandee smiled me a "Thank-you" and took a sip of her Mocha and a bite from her donut, wiping her upper lip clean of the frosting with her tongue. I damn nearly came on the spot! Then I took a sip of my Mocha β how the fuck can people drink that stuff?
I chatted with the repair shop foreman β I know most everyone of them in eastern Iowa, I guess β then told her the bad news.
"It's something to do with the thing's computer, Ms Westgate," I told her. "They're getting in a new chip or whatever from Chicago. It'll be coming in on the afternoon's Greyhound and the car should be ready by five, six o'clock."
A frown passed over her lovely face. "A bus? A fucking bus? Haven't you guys heard of planes out here in Iowa?" she asked me.
I grinned. "Bus'll probably be the quickest, Ms Westgate," I assured her. "Time they get it from wherever in Chicago to O-Hare, then wait for a plane to the Quad Cities, then get it picked up from Moline, then it'd probably be here on the Greyhound."
"OK Al, you smooth talker," she replied, "entertain me."