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The Jetsons
George Jetson entered his apartment on the moving sidewalk feeling lower than a Jovian worm. He had just been fired by his boss, Cosmo Spacely and was home early. His job at Spacely Sprockets had been marked by ups and downs, but this time he had really screwed up. Instead of producing stainless steel automatic salt shakers, he had used gold in the production line and now they had a supply of gold salt shakers which cost a fortune with no one to buy them. On top of that, he had forgotten to set the number of holes so that there were no holes for the salt to come out from. So even if someone had been interested in gold salt shakers, they were useless.
He had messed up before, but never this badly. There was no way Mr. Spacely would forgive him this time. He slumped into his chair as the television automatically turned to his favorite channel. Jane, his beautiful red headed wife, walked in, wearing a sleeveless purple dress that stopped above the knees topped with a triangular white collar.
“Hi, honey,” she called out. “You’re home early.”
“Yeah,” he morosely replied.
“What’s wrong?”
“I wasn’t feeling too well, so I decided to come home early,” he lied, unable to tell her the truth. Their finances were a mess, their credit cards charged to the max, living from paycheck to paycheck. George had held onto his job at Spacely Sprockets feeling that he was just on the verge of being promoted to vice-president. He had, in fact, been promoted to that coveted position several times, but there was always some screw up that cost him his promotion and he would end up back where he had started. And at 38, he wasn’t getting any younger and if he now changed jobs, he couldn’t afford to take the pay cut starting with another company.
“Poor baby,” Jane cooed as she hovered over him, feeling his forehead. “You must be working too hard.” She pushed a button and the chair reclined. “Why don’t you take a nap while I go run some errands.”
Jane grabbed her purse and left in the space car. She knew George was lying.
After all, she was a Libra and was very sensitive to the emotional needs of others, especially to her husband and could read him like a book. Jane had a pretty good idea that something major had happened at work and she was going to see what was really going on. Jane knew that George wasn’t the most capable person in the galaxy. In fact, there were many times she was surprised that he had lasted at Spacely Sprockets for so long. Perhaps it was time to see if she could help George out.
Jane walked into Mr. Spacely’s office. His receptionist looked from her desk.
“May I help you?”
“I’m Jane, George Jetson’s wife. I’m here to talk to Mr. Spacely.”
The receptionist pushed a button on her desk and spoke into her headset.
“Mr. Spacely? I have a Jane Jetson who wants to see you.”
Jane waited as the receptionist listened to his reply.
“He’ll see you now.”
Cosmo Spacely, a short balding man with a mustache, looked up as Jane Jetson entered his office. He had always thought Jane was one of the most beautiful and charming women he had ever met, though he could never understand what she saw in her husband. George was one of the most incompetent employees he had ever had, but because of his fear of a lawsuit (the Galactic Stupidity Act forbade an employer for firing someone because of stupidity), he was reluctant to fire him. He just made George’s life so miserable he figured he would quit. But no matter what he did, George never did. The only bright spot was that, once in a while, he got to see Jane about whom he harbored secret fantasies.
“Have a seat,” Cosmo said as he gestured to the front of his desk. A chair popped up from the floor under Jane and she sat. “What can I do for you?”
Looking at George’s squat boss with a definite Napoleon complex, Jane realized that she would have to take control of the situation if George was going to survive in this company. She had always been aware of Mr. Spacely’s interest in her physical attributes. In fact, she could see his eyes lingering on her breasts and her bare legs crossed in front of her. Perhaps it was now time to play her trump card.
“It’s about George. I know he’s had a few set backs.”
“Set backs? Do you know how much his set back today is going to set me back?”
“Perhaps I could do something to make things better.”
Jane slowly uncrossed her legs and recrossed them, allowing her skirt to hike up her thigh watching Mr. Spacely as his eyes were glued to her legs, straining to see up higher. He swallowed heavily as he shifted in his chair.
“What could you possibly do to make things better?”
She stood up and walked behind the desk and stood in front of Mr. Spacely. The front of his pants already broadcast his state of arousal.
“I could help relieve some of your pressure,” she replied as looked pointedly at the bulge in his pants.