Hey folks! This is my very first story submission here! I'd love good constructive comments so that I may improve.
It was a beautiful, sunny summer day! I loved being outside prospecting businesses for my sales job on days like today! I generally talked with small to medium-sized businesses, so walking from one end of a strip mall to the other was not unusual, and it was so nice out I loved it! About halfway through one such mall I came upon a very nondescript door that had a small sign in neon above it that said "Massage".
I wasn't sure if this kind of business really fit what I was looking for, but I never shied away from opening a possible door for sales. As I walked into the small lobby, I knew immediately it was an Asian-owned parlor. Pretty Asian prints of people, Chinese-style buildings, and landscapes tastefully decorated the walls. A small loveseat in the same Asian style sat against one wall, while a small sliding window was built into another wall. Behind a small, semi-transparent room divider screen was the glow of an ATM machine. I thought to myself, "Hmm, that's interesting. "
The room behind the window was very dark and shaded, but I saw a small shadow approaching as a woman's voice called out.
"I'm coming!"
A small woman opened up the sliding window and asked,
"How may I help you?"
I launched into a quick opening pitch about why I was there, asking questions about how long they had been in business, how many employees, etc. It quickly became apparent that she had no interest. I simply smiled, abandoned the idea of a sale, and said "So, how much for an hour massage?"
She reached through the window with her slender hand and pointed at a sign that I hadn't noticed on the wall that listed the different services and the corresponding prices. I apologized for not being more observant and said,
"Thank you very much! I will come back some day for a massage."
I stuck my hand in the window, and she reached up to shake it. She had very delicate, soft hands, and as we let go of each other, she lingered just a bit longer than I did. We smiled in a very friendly way, and I wished her a nice day.
As I walked back out into the sunshine, it occurred to me, solely on that last handshake, that this might be one of those places that offer the famous happy ending. I chuckled a little bit to myself and jumped in my car to go about my day.
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By the way, here is a quick description of myself. I am in my fifties and very fit. I'm 6', 200 pounds, and decently attractive. I modeled some back in the day, and aging has been very kind to me. Anyway, back to the story!
Two weeks later, I woke up in severe pain and my left shoulder blade. I had no idea what it was from, but it felt like there was a knife shoved in there. I struggled to turn to my left, or really even walk upright. I decided to go get a massage to see if they could remove whatever knot was taking up residence in that shoulder blade. I was fairly new to town, so I didn't have any favorite massage parlors in the area, but I remembered where the parlor i had visited was located. At about 1 o'clock that afternoon, after I finished a good portion of what I needed to do for the day, I drove over and parked in front of the parlor. I thought again of that handshake, and the fact that this may be one of those places I had read about on sites like Literotica. I smiled to myself and said out loud to nobody else in the car, "Get your mind out of the gutter!"
I walked into the now familiarly decorated lobby and stood in front of the window for a minute. When nobody came, I looked around and noticed a doorbell, which I rang. The voice I had heard before sang out that she was coming.
The same, small woman came to the window and asked if she could help me. I asked her for a 60-minute massage, and she immediately walked over to the door and let me in. I walked in and let her know that my shoulder was in a lot of pain, and also my sciatic nerve down the left side through my glutes. As I said that, she reached up and touched my shoulder in a friendly professional way, and then slid her hand down to cup my left butt cheek as I mentioned my sciatic nerve. Chuckling to myself, I wasn't quite sure if that wasn't more friendly than professional!