Most of the blokes I know of my age - 33 - seem to be lusting after younger women: once a girl hits 25 they're not interested in her. Not me. It's not that I couldn't attract them - I'm reckoned to be reasonably good looking in a truck driver-jobbing builder sort of way, mop of chestnut hair, twinkling Weimaraner blue eyes, a ready smile and my slightly bent nose (broken in a rugby match at 16) just to give me a bit of character, and I keep myself toned at the gym and the pool. I just find young birds (sorry ladies - a colleague once told me "we're only called birds because of the worms we pick up") a bit self-focussed, always fiddling with their hair and make-up; plus the kind of music and crappy celeb-obsessed shows and magazines they're into bore me silly.
Nah, I've always had a thing for older women. Of course, when I was at school that tended to mean in their 40s or so, like Mrs Solomon, my very earnest History teacher. A couple of years after I'd left - she was still teaching there then - I had a chance meeting with her in a coffee bar and confessed how I'd spent every lesson lusting after her. It was one of the best things I ever did, because we spent the rest of the evening in her flat shagging each other's brains out, and I've yet to find anyone else who gave a blow job as good as her's.
Just because people get older, and find themselves alone in life, doesn't mean that they somehow leave behind them their interest in sex or their desire for physical pleasure, it's just that they don't often get the opportunity to experience it, and our prurient so-called liberal society tends to frown on it if they try to. I freely admit, I try to tap into that desire. I wouldn't use a condescending clichΓ© like "older women are more grateful", but I have found that usually, often after years of enforced celibacy, they're very enthusiastic, and imaginative. Whenever I get a chance to chat up a more mature lady, on her own, perhaps looking lonely or wistful, I do. More than once I've played the boy scout, offering to carry heavy shopping bags home for a lady, and been rewarded with a few hours of passion. Probably eight out of ten of the ladies I approach are amused and flattered, once I convince them I'm serious (I've yet to have one who expressed offence at my approach), but on the other twenty percent of those occasions...
Like a couple of months ago, when I moved from one end of London to the other for a new job (I'm an IT tech). The flat I bought had a washing machine so old I reckon it was built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and it took me a couple of weeks after getting rid of it to get a new one plumbed in, so one afternoon I toddled off to a launderette a few streets away, the first time I'd entered one for about 15 years. It was run by a West Indian lady called Maisie, who took pity on my obvious confusion and showed me how the washing machine worked.
I instantly took a shine to Maisie, who I guessed was in her mid to late 50s. She's a statuesque woman, an inch or two shorter than me in her flip-flops (I just make it to six foot), with big brown eyes, chubby cheeks and a double chin, a wide smile displaying even white teeth, a magnificent bust which wouldn't look out of place on the prow of a galleon and, as she describes it, "a big African backside." That day she was dressed in a calf-length blue batik printed with yellow flowers and humming birds, a purple bandana knotted above her strong brow, and her finger and toenails were painted silvery-purple. She spoke in a fairly deep voice with a local accent spiced with a Barbadian twang. (She told me her parents had brought her from there to Britain when she was nine years old.)
It being midweek the launderette was quiet and we got chatting. She was taken with my humour and laughed loud and hard, a booming gale that filled the place. I was looking for a way in, so to speak, and I noticed she seemed to have not just one but three wedding rings on her finger. With a grin she said "Well darlin', that's 'cos I been married three times. I threw the men away but I kept all the rings." That provoked another big laugh.
She went on to tell me in some detail about each of her husbands, with plenty of winks and chuckles. When she finished I said "Blimey Maisie, I reckon you were a right goer in your time."
She nodded cheerfully and, running her eyes lasciviously up and down me, replied "You'd better believe it darlin'. I could give that hunky body of yours a good workout."
Ker-ching. Quick as a flash I responded, "You reckon? What time do you finish tonight?"