Being a busy, single, professional I generally eat a number of dinners at a small burger joint near where I live. The food is pretty good, though I have no doubt that it will kill me someday. Thankfully I have a very physical job as an Electrician so I’m able to stay in shape. Over the past year or so that I’ve lived in the neighborhood I’ve gotten to know the owner of this little Diner near my house pretty well. Richard bought the place about ten years ago with his wife and together the pair run the place, mostly hiring local college students to take orders and bus tables.
Richard and his wife do a pretty good job. They pay their staff well, buy good quality food and in general have a pretty good business. However I know that because of all of that their profit margins are razor-thin; a fact not lost on anyone who has ever heard their order number illegibly crackled over their out-dated and broken PA system or walked through their mostly dark parking lot at night.
So I really wasn’t surprised when Richard told me one night that money was tight and while he knew the repairs needed to be made (the city had already cited him for the malfunctioning lights in his parking lot) he couldn’t afford to make them. Knowing what I do for a living he asked if I might be able to help him out. I grinned and told him that would be no problem.
We struck a deal which consisted of some cash and a lot of free meals. I was able to get most of the parts he needed through the company I work for at cost. I don’t mind the extra work; I like the food there and like to help folks out when I can. The diner closes early on Tuesday nights since that was the slowest night of the week which gave the staff a chance to deep-clean the kitchen and the dining room. That was the night we agreed I’d come-in and do the work.
The staff took turns working these cleaning shifts and I was excited when I saw Erin would be working the first night I was there. Erin was twenty and took classes at a local University. A quiet girl with most people she seemed to enjoy my company and we frequently talked while I ate and we enjoyed flirting with each other. Over the past couple of months that she’d worked there I’d learned a lot about her; she lived with a guy who had been her high school sweetheart but now they had grown apart and she told me she was saving to get her own place. Erin was a nice girl and nice looking too: Dirty blonde hair, slender build, tiny tits (maybe a B cup I estimated). She had a cute smile and frequently took her breaks when I was eating dinner so she could sit with me. A friendly girl, I often thought that if she weren’t ten years younger than me I might have pursued a relationship with her.
Midway through that first night I made my way to the back of the restaurant to check-out something in the electrical panel. I saw Erin working back there cleaning some shelves which were against the back wall. We made small talk as I checked some circuits. I was happy to see that since the restaurant was closed Richard had allowed the staff to dress more causally, so now Erin walked around in a white tank top which did a poor job of hiding the black bra she was wearing underneath. She was working on some of the lower shelves and I could clearly see the whale tale from a red thong poking it’s way out of the top of the tight jeans she was wearing. Just then Erin got called away to help a co-worker elsewhere in the restaurant and I returned to my work.