I am a Doctor, part time anyway. I don't know why I even became one, in that early stage of my life I knew I would need a profession and government money was available so I took it.
It didn't take very long working in a trauma center for me to realize I didn't like that part, so I went to work for an HMO in a wellness clinic. That was better, I fit right in there.
As a young woman I wasn't blessed with beauty and if any of you have read my other stories, I guess I couldn't be accused of being blessed with brains, either.
Until I got into my 40's I was on the mousy and dumpy side. Then I came into an inheritance, suddenly I could afford about anything and I do mean anything. Why my friend Lee left everything to me I just don't know. I even tried to turn it all over to her brother, he wanted no part of it. I don't understand that to this day.
One thing about sudden money, it changes a person's life. I learned quickly it also changes almost everyone a person knows, too.
I spent money on having my hair changed completely, I learned how to do makeup by going so far as to take a class in that.
I can't say I became beautiful, but I did learn to take advantage of what I had. Then I met Tom and got married. Finally I thought I was happy, completely happy.
Several years of our off and on relationship taught me a lot about myself, also. Then Tom was lost in an accident, my life took another sudden change.
My late husband Tom had brought home a bike one day and I started using it. My body instantly started to change, the 10 to 15 pounds I had fought for decades just went away and stayed away.
There were lots of changes in my life after that. I met my friend Brad's brother, Jim. One thing led to another and pretty darn quickly, and we made incredible love.
I have to say I really did like that, and I liked Jim. But he was younger than me by quite a bit, it became obvious quickly that he was just having fun, there was no long term relationship going to be.
Then Brad and my good friend Patty were forced to move to get work. Brad ran the contracting business and that could best be described as non-existent. Even the work for the government dried up.
The opportunities were coming from the Federal level, Brad changed to doing different types of excavation work for roads, bridges, things like that. That meant they had to go to where the work was. More sudden changes in my life.
There were tearful hugs all around the day they left. Brad's brother Jim had long since moved on, he found a young and pretty cocktail waitress and she wasn't the type to stand very long for Jim slipping out to spend a night in bed with a mid forties lady doctor.
Once again, I was all alone. It didn't help one bit that Winter seemed to just go on and on, the days were cold and it was always wet so I couldn't even go out and ride my bike much.
I began to do a little bar hopping but drinking never was my thing. I did find one tiny little bar that actually had some pure fruit juices so I sat and chatted with the lady bartender many times.
Once in awhile men came up to me and made their attempts but I wasn't in the mood and their clever well practiced comments and lines just got nowhere with me.
My life was dull, empty.
I did go down to a local car lot and traded off my Van, ending up with a Black Impala that they sold so cheaply I couldn't turn it down. It had one of those V-8 engines and in our world of high priced gasoline I guess no one would even give it a second look. I liked it, it was easy to drive and got pretty good mileage, better than the Van in fact. Besides, it didn't rattle like the Van did.
For a few days I felt pretty good again, the new car was fun to learn about, it had lots of toys.
You can see from the last paragraph how my life was heading, the best description would be boring.
I was sitting at the tiny little bar sipping on a glass of Pomegranate juice and chatting with Pam, the bartender when for some reason I blurted out that I thought I needed a man.
She laughed and told me that maybe if I quit rejecting every man that even came close to me I might find one.
"The last thing I need is one that I will have to figure out how to get rid of." I told her, mostly just joking.
"Besides, every single one of them seems to have a few extra drinks down themselves before they get up any courage."
"Hell, honey, hire one then." She grinned at me and then went to serve a couple that had come in.
"Hire one?" I thought.
Lord. Just what I needed, a male prostitute. There really was no way in hell I would ever dream of doing anything like that.
Pam came back down the bar to me and we chatted some more.
"If anything ever walks in that I know is maybe worth a hoot I will let you know." She grinned.
"I doubt I will ever find anyone in a bar."
"You are probably right there. Say, why not just hire one of those Massage therapists, maybe one of them could give you a nice time." She let out a giggle at that.
"Fat chance of that." I answered. I had had a few massages, they used sheets and tied little diapers and acted terrified at the idea of touching anything beyond their "boundaries".
Besides, I suspected that most male massuers were probably gay, anyway.
"Well, check out this website." Pam jotted down an address and handed it to me. Then she winked and went back down the bar.
I stuck the slip of paper in my purse and forgot about it. It was several days later when it popped back into my head, I went and got the link and typed it into my browser.
Up popped an ads website. It had everything a person could think of. I began to scan through them. Most were blatant sexual requests, and most were from men, too. Why men would post photos of themselves with an erection is beyond me, no woman would really go for that. Well, most probably wouldn't anyway. I did notice that some of them were sure big though.
I did a lot of giggling, looking at the ads and reading them.
I finally ended up on a section that advertised massages. These seemed to be less sexually oriented, at least there weren't so many photos of men's penises.
I just had the thought in my mind that anyone that would post a picture like that in public was probably not someone I was looking for.
Then I spotted a polite ad that asked for a practice partner. I was unsure of what that meant but I figured since it was the cleanest ad of the bunch I would answer.
What the hell, my email address was anonymous so it couldn't hurt.
"Hello." I wrote. "I confess to being curious about your ad and I am willing to at least chat with you about it."