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We have given each other every imaginable red or pink present over the years on Valentine's Day from edible underwear to sex toys that looked like fire hydrants. It became apparent to my best-bud-girl, Jenn, and I, as well as to a number of our friends, that we had become "Valentine's Day Professionals."
Jenn happened upon a very simple explanation for why we were such experts at celebrating this lovers' occasion when she said, "It's because we practice so much in the off-season."
We've become Valentine's Day "mentors" and "coaches." I work on the guys who are only creative enough to buy candy and a pair of panties, and Jenn works on the women who in the past might desperately try to find a matching red bra and panty set as they rummage through their bureaus as late as the morning of the event. One couple in particular, Henry and Leslie, repeatedly thank us for the coaching and tutoring that has now made them professionals at enjoying what is now a season for them as well. It started with a conversation several years ago that the four of us had while attending a mandatory Christmas party at work.
"We realized years ago that the Christmas season can become a burden because it's stretched out over too many weeks and even months," Jenn told them.
Jenn and I found that by "shortening" some holiday seasons and conversely "lengthening' other holidays that our appreciation for all the events increased dramatically. Valentine's Day, for instance, is now officially kicked off in our household as well as in Henry and Leslie's on February first. The first evening on our Valentine's Day Season begins decorating any little box we can find that will become our Valentine's Day "Wishes" Box. Each of us has to slip a little piece of paper into a little slot each evening before we go to bed with another "wish." The box sits on a night table right next to the bed until February 14th. This tradition in its own rite fuels both our imagination as well as our excitement which just simmers and is ready to boil over by the time the official Day is upon us; greatly due to the fact that one of the rules for our Valentine's Day Season is to abstain from orgasms until the actual day is upon us. Whew.
"That won't be hard for us," Leslie told Jenn, "We sometimes go months without having sex together."
Jenn's response was, "Well how often do you tease or flirt with each other?" Leslie gave Jenn her undivided attention as this, "first coaching session" that we remember commenced.
Jenn and I are both quick to admit that giving suggestions and tips to people almost always excites us just as well. Jenn gave Leslie a litany of ideas, some of which Jenn thought of on the spot that made her want to go try them out on me!
"Buy one or two of the sexiest pairs of panties you can find, and then just hang them in the shower after you've rinsed them out. Even if Henry doesn't say anything it'll make him think. Tell him that it's fun for you to wear the sexy underwear sometimes because it makes you think about a very special lovemaking session that you've had together. Wear nightgowns or T-shirts to bed for a week.....and then let him find you sleeping naked. Have a cup of coffee with him or watch him shave one morning while you're topless."
Jenn's list kept going; Leslie had to take notes. And then Jenn ended that first session by suggesting that Leslie leave the list somewhere that Henry might find it!
Jenn was hornier-than-billy-goatness that night at dinner when she told me about the talk she had with Leslie, and asked that I help out a little bit with Henry. That is easier-said-than-done for me; I'm not the kind of guy who typically can talk to another guy about turning a woman on; but I promised to try as long as Jenn would tutor me a little bit through a viable process.
"The next time you and Henry are talking about the price of anything, could you mention something like Jenn just told me that she saw a vibrator for a hundred dollars, or Jenn realized that the price to replace her favorite vibrator had doubled in just three years? Maybe you can broach the topic of sex disguised as an economic indicator?" Jenn suggested.
And with that we developed a couple of tactful ploys that would hopefully get Henry's imagination cranking. And it worked. As Henry and I were looking at a brand-new line of table saws one afternoon I remarked, "The price of these things is a third of what it was ten years ago....but you know what? That's not the story everywhere....Jenn told me this morning that the price to replace her favorite vibrator had doubled in just three years. I just hope that it's as efficient, easy-to-use, and made as well as this saw." Henry sort of snickered because I don't think he knew what else to do.
But I had planted a seed that made an appearance about a week later when Henry almost embarrassingly asked me, "Do you and Jenn use a lot of toys?"