Seducing Susan
I met Susan one cold winter night in December. That Friday just before Christmas colloquially known as, 'Mad Friday,' the night of a million office parties, drunken dinners, company expense accounts, and excess in all things. Funnily enough, Susan and her three companions were all in good shape, they'd maybe had a couple of glasses of wine, just enough to loosen them up, but not drunk, and I later found out that all four of them were teachers at a local private school, who had just gone out for a, 'girly,' meal at one of the up-market hotels in the west end of our city.
As I approached the hotel I saw a woman in a white coat trying to flag me down. I stopped and rolled down my window, and she asked me if I could take her and her three friends into town - nothing unusual in that, because I work as a cabbie at the weekends to earn some extra money. She got into the front seat beside me, and her friends piled into the back.
'Where to?' I asked, and they named a club in the city centre, but one of them said she wanted to go home. It was just a slight detour, not really out of the general direction, so I drove her home. On the way I picked up that they were teachers from the conversation, and the one going home casually mentioned that she was on a 'promise of a good shag,' and they all laughed. They laughed even more when I put one hand over my ear and sang out, 'la la la la la la la,' like a child not wanting to hear something.
'Yes, too much information,' one of them said, giggling, adding, 'but tell us more,' and the first one added to the merriment by adding that it would be her second of the day since she'd gone home at lunchtime. They all laughed some more and started talking over and across each other. The woman sitting in the front passenger seat beside me just looked at me and smiled, and shrugged her shoulders as if to say, 'girls will be girls.' I soon discovered her name was Susan as her friends talked to her, and she included me in their conversation, just generally chatting in a friendly way.
As I pulled up outside the house, the one going home opened the back door to get out, which switched on the interior lights, but sat there for a few moments exchanging sexy banter with her friends. I turned my head to look at the woman sitting beside me - she had turned slightly in her seat and was talking over her shoulder to her friends in the back. Her coat had fallen open to reveal a turquoise coloured dress, quite short, and fishnet stockings, which I found quite unusual, not to mention damned sexy.
She had great legs, and she caught me having a good look. I looked up from her legs straight into her eyes, caught in the act, and I smiled to cover my embarrassment at being caught - she smiled back. She was lovely, beautifully cut dark hair, make-up immaculate and understated. I quickly estimated her age as early to mid-forties. Perhaps it was just my imagination, but I felt there was a spark, a feeling of instant understanding between us. She had caught me looking and admiring, but didn't seem to mind in the slightest and maybe even liked it.
Finally the one in the back got out, I put the car in gear, and drove off, and the two remaining friends in the back seat repeated the name of the club they wanted to go to. I said nothing, but Susan said she really wanted to go home too, and asked me if I'd drive her home after her friends got out at the club. I assured her that would be no problem, not that I had the slightest notion of anything other than driving her home. To me it just meant that the final amount on my taxi meter would increase, and that's what I was here for, to take their money.
Her friends protested, they wanted her to go to the club with them, and she was swithering between yes and no, when I added, that it might be dangerous to go to that particular club wearing fishnet stockings. It was a joke of course, and she knew that, but it was my way of flirting with her and letting her know I'd noticed and was admiring her legs. 'Do you really think so?' she asked in mock horror, running with the joke.
'Without a doubt,' I replied, 'a lovely woman like you in sexy fishnet stockings. You'd be in moral danger.' Her friends in the back were laughing at my comments, and some ribald comments were made about Susan and her fishnet stockings, but when I stopped to let them out at the club, Susan, despite their pleading stayed put. Once again the interior lights went on when they opened the door, and she looked at me as they got out, still trying their best to get her to change her mind. They finally accepted her decision to go home, and got out saying their goodbyes. Susan just smiled, wished them good luck and told them enjoy themselves. She looked at me and smiled, and again I felt there was something in her look.
They finally said their goodbyes, not drunk as I said earlier, but obviously enough wine had been taken to take the edge off and give them a little 'buzz.' When the doors finally closed there was that silence and sense of relief just for a moment, and I was alone with the lovely Susan. She looked at me with another smile and told me where she lived, and I started the car, edging out into the traffic.
'They're lovely girls,' she said by way of explanation, 'but they can be a bit overpowering, especially when they've had a couple of glasses of wine.' We both smiled together in agreement. I drove in silence for a little while before speaking.
'I hope you weren't offended by me mentioning your fishnets?' I said, trying to make sure she was okay with my friendly banter. Sometimes it can be a bit risky to mention things that can be misconstrued, especially when all it takes these days for a woman to ruin a man's reputation is for her to say, 'he made me feel uncomfortable.' She laughed and assured me that no offense was taken, and she'd actually been quite pleased because she'd gone to some effort, and no one else had mentioned them all night.
'Well,' I added, 'they're only girls; you can't expect girls to have an eye for an attractive woman wearing fishnet stockings, can you?'
'I noticed
you
had an eye for them,' she joked. Was she flirting with me I wondered?
'Guilty as charged, I'm afraid,' I said, admitting my little bit of lechery. 'I couldn't help it. I admit I never even noticed at first because of the length of your coat, but when you turned round to talk to your friends, your coat fell open revealing your dress and your fishnets. I was pleasantly surprised, by the stockings. I suppose I was a bit like the proverbial "bunny in the headlights," and I couldn't look away, so you caught me having a good look.' She laughed, a lovely deep, throaty laugh 'and you know the rest,' I added. She seemed quite amused by my little confession.
'Are fishnets so unusual?' she asked.