I was sitting at home one Friday evening just minding my own business. I intended to spend a lazy night at home with a six pack and the TV, watching a game. Then I received this phone call.
Turned out it was Mandy on the line. A cute kid. A friend of my daughters. I was more her mother's generation than hers. She beat about the bush for a minute or so, asking after my health, how are my daughters, what am I doing, etc. I patiently answered her questions waiting for the trap to spring.
It sprang. Could I, pretty please, pick her and her friend up at her place and run them down to the nightclub they intended to party at that night.
I suggested a taxi and she wasn't interested. If she paid for a taxi she wouldn't have enough for drinks after paying the cover charge. She couldn't expect men to pay for all her drinks, now could she? She needed one that they could refresh for her.
The long and the short of it was that I agreed to pick her up and run her into the city centre so she could go to her night club. I trundled up at the nominated time and she and her friend came bustling out and hopped into the car, Mandy in the front and her friend in the back.
"Thanks, Mr Gee. You're a lifesaver. Um, this is Kathy."
"Evening Kathy," I said, and put the car in drive and headed towards the city centre.
Can you call it a city centre when the shops, bars, and nightclubs are on a road that runs parallel to the beach? Anyway, I rolled into the centre and got hit with the second part of the whammy.
"Gosh, we're a bit early," Mandy said innocently. "Um, I don't suppose you'd like to buy us some fish and chips? We really should eat something before we have any drinks. There's a great little fish and chip shop over there. We can get what we want and then go and park down by the beach to eat."
I didn't even try to argue. I knew when I'd been set up. We bought fish and chips and we drove down to the beach to dine. Mandy had been right about one thing -- the beach was pretty deserted at this time. Probably because of the cold wind coming in off the water. Two things, really. That was a pretty good fish and chip shop.
What I found amazing is the way that both Mandy and Kathy could talk. I think they were both talking at once, even while eating, a non-stop explosion of words pouring out and flooding the car.
I think we'd nearly reached the point where the girls were ready to head off to the nightclub (the idea being that I'd drop them there, it being too cold to walk) when I made my next mistake.
Where my own daughters are concerned I'd always been very firm about the language they used. I saw absolutely no reason why they should sprinkle their language with invectives and gutter-talk and I let them know it. So when Kathy referred to someone that she and Mandy were dissecting as an arse I automatically spoke up.
"Language," I gently reprimanded.
"Mr Gee doesn't like people swearing," said Mandy with a giggle.
Kathy also giggled and apologised.
"Sorry," she said. "I arsure you I didn't mean to offend. Arsk Mandy. She'll tell you I don't swear. I put my lapse down to my arsociates ars I'd never normally say such a thing."
I'd never realised that there were so many words that could be bastardised to include arse in them. Kathy showed an amazing talent for finding a whole bunch of them in her fulsome apology, while Mandy almost collapsed onto the floor of the car she was giggling so much.
I know a challenge when I'm slapped in the face with it. I hopped out of the car and into the backseat next to Kathy.
"OK. Say it one more time," I said softly.
"Say what? Do you mean arse?" she giggled.
Then she squealed as I pulled her over my knee and dropped a firm spank on her bottom.
"Ow, my arse," she yelped.
I like a direct challenge. She and Mandy were wearing very short dresses to the night club and they weren't wearing tights. I very calmly pushed up that excuse for a dress, exposing her bottom and her skimpy panties. (Mandy was kneeling on the front seat watching and giggling.)
"Don't you spank my arse," Kathy told me and yelped when my hand came down again.
"I arsed you not to do that," came the protest.
She was not going to back down so I upped the stakes a little. I pulled her panties down.
"Mr Gee! Now I've got a bare arse. That's not fair."
That's not all that was bare. She'd been wriggling about, lifting her bottom higher, and her legs were by no means what you would call together. This time I dropped a spank where my hand neatly cupped her vulva.
"Argh. That wasn't my arse," she yelled.