Friday night was the night at the Top Dog drive-in. If you were anyone or wanted to be someone who was anyone, you made an appearance at the Top Dog on Friday night.
The Top Dog was at the end of W. Main St., a four-mile-long stretch of businesses, apartments, parks, empty lots, gas stations, fast food dives, cemeteries, a hospital, garden nurseries, and other non-descript space. The street was so long that it had East Main, Main, and West Main. Main St. was the cruising street on Friday night.
It was a four lane, divided, city street with left turn lanes at most intersections and a concrete divider that was supposed to keep vehicles on the right side of the street. There were plenty of stop lights, but on the east and west ends, they were far enough apart so that cruisers could test their cars with one another.
The Top Dog anchored the west end of W. Main taking up the southwest corner of 2nd and W. Main. You would cruise west, make a left turn at 2nd St., turn right into the Top Dog, make one circuit around the Top Dog, and get back onto Main headed east. Everyone did it, and if you didn't have a car, you had some buddies or girlfriends with a car that you would hook up with for the Friday night ritual. Back and forth, windows down, radio on, struttin' what stuff you had and just makin' the scene.
If you were lucky or you had enough time and gas to continue cruisin', there would be a parking space at the Top Dog when you made your circuit. Usually it was because the making out got too serious for a public place and the couple decided to go somewhere more private. So, if you were lucky, you got a parking spot.
At the Top Dog no one went inside. You parked facing the building and the car hops showed up to take your order. If you were parked, you had to order. That wasn't a rule; it was the rule. After you were finished with your order, you either made out with your date or talked and watched the other suckers drive around and around. It was common knowledge and enforced by that well understood code, that you had about 10 minutes to sit after you finished your order. If you wanted, you could order again, but most left to vacate their treasured spot and assume the next place in the line of cars headed back east.
However, the most coveted place of all on Friday night was the back side of the Top Dog parking lot. The Top Dog itself was brightly lit with a large, flashing neon outline of a dog on top of the building. But as you moved back away from the building, the lighting dropped off until about 15 feet from the back side of the parking lot, the light was just a dim glow. In fact, if you were parked around the Top Dog, you couldn't even see if there were any cars back there at all. As each car drove around the Top Dog, their headlights would sweep the back side of the parking lot, imparting a brief glimpse of the cars back there. If you got a spot at the back of the parking lot, you could stay there all night.
That's where Cassie and Kelli were on this Friday night, parked so that there was just the concrete block wall of the adjoining building on the left side and one car next to them on the right. That car was empty as the kids had found someone to ride around with. They were in Kelli's mom's car, a four-door sedan with bench seats and a long hood. It was 1982.
"So, Cass," Kelli said. "Did you see that substitute teacher they had for trig today instead of Mrs. Landert?"
"No, c'mon," Cassie replied. "You know I'm not smart like you guys. I only get down to that end of the building when I have art class in the Louvre, and that's only Tuesdays and Thursdays."
"Well, let me tell you!" exclaimed Kelli. "He must have been all of 28 and really dreamy looking. And he was sexy. When he took off his suit coat and turned to hang it up by the door, I could actually see the bulge in the front of his pants!"
"Ewwww... You are so nasty," Cassie responded. "Leave it to you to look at him like that instead of appreciating him for sacrificing his day trying to teach you bunch of trouble makers. You probably had your eyes on his crotch all class thinkin' 'bout... Well, never mind. Now, I'm getting nasty."
"Ha! You're not such the prude that you claim to be. I saw you "accidently" lift your skirt the other day at your locker between classes all the way to your panties," countered Kelli. "And it just happened to be when Wes and Jim were passing by. Some accident!"
"Well, maybe so. I was kinda' hoping that if Wes saw my panties, he might want to get in them. 'Course, I acted embarrassed and all, and pretended my hand caught on my waist band trying to get my skirt down, so I gave them a little longer look," Cassie explained. "I thought it was pretty good. Later in English class I gave Wes another flash. He probably had a hard on all day. You know, the last time we were out, I was the recipient of that organ."
"What? You're kidding," cried Kelli. "You never told me that."
"Well, I don't tell you everything I do," demurred Cassie. "Besides it was just oral."
"You gave Wes a blow job?"
"Yes, and I actually enjoyed it this time. Wait a minute! Who's that coming over here? He looks like he's walking right to your side, Kell."
"Oh, I know him. It's Stan Anson. He's a friend of my brother's and graduated with him two years ago," said Kelli.
"Isn't he a farm boy?" asked Cassie, lowering her voice so she couldn't be heard.
"Sure is."
"Howdy, girls!" said Stan, leaning in with his forearms on Cassie's lowered window.
Both girls replied, "Hi."
"I'm Stan. You're Kelli and you're Cassie."
"Yeah, we know," said Kelli. "You know my brother."
"You mean, Charley? Yeah, good, 'ole Charley. Haven't seen him for a while."
"He's in the army," responded Kelli, as she shifted on the seat, half-facing Stan, pushing her chest out and moving her left leg toward the car door. Cassie noticed this and turned to face that side also with her left leg on the seat, bent at the knee and her right leg over her left foot. She absent mindedly pulled her skirt up to her knees.
"No shit!" exclaimed Stan. "I would've never figured Charley for an army boy. Just goes to show that you never know 'bout people, huh?"
"So, what are you girls doin'?" he continued, glancing down at Kelli's 36C tits. Cassie saw him look and unconsciously started to slowly rub her right leg.
"Oh, we're just hangin' out, aren't we, Cassie," said Kelli, looking over at Cassie for acknowledgment.
Cassie confirmed, "Yeah, just hangin' out." Then she added "And talking about girl stuff."
"Yeah, girl stuff! I know what that's all about! You're probably talking about boys and getting laid!" Stan rejoined.
"Were not!" said Cassie indignantly.
Stan moved his right hand and began gently rubbing the back of his fingers on Kelli's arm just below the shoulder of her sleeveless blouse. Cassie couldn't see that, but she saw Kelli tense up. She moved her hand to her knee and continued rubbing.
"Well, it's O.K. if you were. Makes no matter to me," Stan said, as he continued to rub Kelli's arm a little harder. "By the way, you girls out of school? How old are you?"
"We're both seniors and school will be out in two weeks. And we're both 18, for your information!" Kelli replied with a hint of haughtiness in her voice.
"Hey, hey! Don't get on your high horse!" Stan said as he turned his hand and began rubbing the back of Kelli's upper arm near her shoulder.
"I was just asking. You both look older than that, like real women if I don't say so myself."
He moved his thumb through Kelli's sleeve and gently tugged on her bra strap.
"Oh, yeah! What does a "real woman" look like?" Kelli replied. Cassie could see that something was going on as Kelli began to fidget just slightly.
"What I mean is, you two look real mature, like women who know what you want and then go get it. It's a compliment, for god's sake! Don't you know a compliment when you see one?"
"Yeah, I guess so," answered Kelli. "I guess you're off the hook..." And then she added, "...for now."
"I know you're a real woman, Kelli, because most high school girls aren't like this," he said as he moved his right hand and squeezed Kelli's left breast through her blouse. Kelli shifted back in the car seat, but did nothing to move his hand.
"Kell..." Cassie said, thinking that she should stop him.
"Shhhhh, Cassie. It's all right," Kelli replied.
Cassie had seen Kelli like this before and she knew that Kelli was going to do what she wanted to do. Cassie began rubbing her own right breast with her left hand.
"Yeah, Cassie, it's all right," continued Stan. "Real women understand when words and actions are compliments." He paused, then added "Right, Kelli?"
"Uh, huh," Kelli answered.
Her arms were at her sides and she was looking straight ahead. Cassie thought she had that kind of unknowing look, but the smile on her face betrayed her.
Stan kept talking as he moved his hand from one breast to the other, rubbing and squeezing through her blouse.
"In fact, I'd put you two women up against any woman around here tonight and you guys would win, hands down. I mean it."
He unbuttoned the top two buttons of Kelli's blouse and switched hands with his left hand exploring Kelli's tits under her blouse.
He went on. "It's not every man who understands that women are meant to be cherished, that women are sensitive and need to be encouraged to feel good about themselves. Like now. Kelli's feeling good and that's O.K. Real women know when to take advantage of the situation for their own benefit. Here darlin', lean up."
Kelli leaned forward and Stan deftly unclasped her bra with his right hand.
"O.K., now lean back."
Cassie was watching this scene unfold with fascination and trepidation. She had never seen Kelli like this; she was under a spell or something. She pulled her own skirt higher and moved her hand to the inside of her blouse.
Soft purring sounds were coming from Kelli who now had her eyes closed. She leaned her head back on the car seat.
"Kelli," Stan said quietly. "Unbutton your blouse."
Kelli unbuttoned all the buttons, then pulled her blouse open. Stan lifted her bra up over her tits.
Cassie gasped.