We were talking about ships' bottoms, as you do, or at least when your business is re-painting them. Big ships, mostly, oil tankers and bulk carriers.
Big ships use a lot of paint and selling that paint is a highly competitive business. Mostly, it's an all-male business, probably because it often involves crawling around in the darkest, filthiest recesses of giant ships, not something that most women really get excited about.
Except Angela Duncan. "Do you remember Angela Duncan," I asked my Technical Manager, as we looked at the drawings of our latest project, a 325,000 ton double-hulled tanker, barely three years old. but already needing corrosion treatment in many sections of the vast void spaces which separate the crude oil cargoes from the ocean. New oil tankers are like big vacuum flasks to prevent oil spills if there is external damage such as a collision with another vessel.
"Yeah, what happened to her, the sexy bitch? he asked.
"I was just thinking the same thing myself," I said, "I haven't seen her since we worked at the Capitol Chemicals terminal, and that must be about four years ago. She moved to Scotland with her husband, the ex-Navy guy. I think she's settled down."
Angela Duncan certainly hadn't settled down when I knew her and my mind pleasurably recalled some of our encounters. She was a rare breed, a paint specialist with a degree in corrosion engineering, and undoubtedly the best-looking corrosion engineer I ever knew.
Angela, who I think was 28 when I last met her, was blonde, blue-eyed, and propelled by the proverbial "all-the-way-up-to-her-arse" legs. But the pièce de résistance were the silicone spectaculars which Angela ultimately treated herself to following a particularly good year's bonuses.
When I first met her, I thought she was rather tasty even with the modest boobies that nature had provided. Angela, it emerged, had never been happy about these although she regularly wore white silk shirts that were carelessly unbuttoned whenever, as an area sales rep. for a large paint manufacturer, she had a sales meeting with a client. Because we bid for work on many of the projects which used Angela's paint I attended many of these meetings. Angela would stay over in our area for a day or two and would regularly entertain me to dinner on her company's expense account.
I think she almost saw me as some sort of father figure. I was 54 then, carrying too much weight and with not a lot of hair left. We hit it off from the start, however; I helped her with a lot of practical advice, and we soon got to the stage where, rather than a handshake when she entered my office in a cloud of Lancôme Poême I got a hug and a quite steamy kiss. I confess I was under her spell.
Whilst the unbuttoned shirts undoubtedly made their impact it was, ironically, usually myself who got more benefit from it than the customer. I would usually sit beside her and was therefore often treated to the sight of a pert, rubbery nipple as she leaned down to remove another file or brochure from her briefcase.
It was quickly clear to me that Angela was a natural exhibitionist because her strong suit in all these sales meetings was an erotic display of her legs the blatancy of which sometimes alarmed me. I was convinced we might get thrown out by some customers because of Angela going over the top but it never happened and she certainly sold a lot of paint. She always wore dark suits; a plain silk shirt, open jacket, tight, short skirts and heels. From having her as a passenger in my car, I also knew that she wore stockings and suspenders but only from the odd occasion when she had reached for papers or brochures in the back seat of the car and the short skirt had risen up briefly to reveal the start of the dark band of a stocking top.
After about the third or fourth time we visited a client together, I commented, back in the car, that I didn't think her customer had been paying much attention to her presentation, not that it had mattered.
"Oh, do you think he was just enjoying the leg show, then?" Angela responded. At least I had established that she knew the effect she had been having on the wretched maintenance manager of a chemical plant who needed paint for a big storage silo. He signed a purchase order for a lot more than he needed; Angela sat beside him and helped him fill it in.
"Well, I'm sure I would have been if I had been sitting where he was. But I wasn't, sadly," I grinned.
Angela looked at me quizzically.
"Was I overdoing it a bit?" she asked me. "Is this skirt too short?" She wriggled in the car seat attempting to pull the skirt down. Again the dark bands of her stocking tops were visible. She had removed her jacket because it was a hot day -- sitting in the car park outside the chemical plant it was sweltering -- and she had not re-buttoned the white silk shirt. She wasn't wearing a bra and I could see her delicious half-inch left nipple, erect and red, chafing against the material of the shirt. There was a trickle of sweat running down between her breasts. My throat was dry and there was an embarrassing bulge growing in my trousers. It was hot.
"It would be too short for me but I might try it if it sells as well as it does for you," I said.
"Mum always said to me that, if you've got it, flaunt it," said Angela, "I just wish I had the tits to go with the legs."
"From where I'm sitting, I wouldn't worry too much about them," I observed.
Angela look down at her chest disapprovingly and said they looked like a couple of fried eggs.
"You can't do anything with these," she said, and, to my amazement, unbuttoned a further three buttons, cupped her firm, if modest, breasts together, looked up at me and said, "Look, no cleavage worth a shit. And my husband is really a tit man. I'm going to get a boob job and do it right. I've been saving."
I wanted so much to lean forward and kiss those delectable nipples but he who hesitates is lost, as they say, and I watched disappointedly as Angela's "worthless" breasts disappeared back inside the shirt.
"Don't waste any money on your legs, then," I said.
She leaned back in the seat lasciviously and stretched out those fabulous limbs. She had only done up two buttons on her shirt and her half-pint breasts were almost totally exposed and glistened with sweat. She looked thoroughly obscene. She was wonderful.
"Yeah, they're alright, aren't they. A quick flash always makes that first purchase order a bit easier, I've found," she grinned at me. "I never know just exactly how much to show. I'll have to practice in front of you in your office until I get it just right." With both hands she smoothed each nylon-clad leg provocatively from ankle to mid-thigh.
I didn't know if I was still just being used to gratify her exhibitionistic tendencies or if there was more to this than I thought. Happily married I was, and am, with a 50 year old very fit wife still sporting a body almost to rival Angela's -- but I could feel my heart pumping and I clenched and re-clenched my buttocks, flexing an erection fit to burst as I fantasised what might happen between me and the sexy, sexy lady sitting next to me.
"Jesus, Angela, that could take hours," I said hoarsely.
This crazy, wanton woman giggled like a schoolgirl and shook out her long, blonde hair. Her perfume suffused the car and the blood pounded in my head.
"Anyway, I'm not wearing stockings on a day like this all the way back to your office. They're just for business," she said. With that, she slid the little black skirt up her gorgeous legs and brought black suspenders, stark against her white thighs, into mouth-watering view. She raised one leg, bent it at the knee, started to unsnap one nylon then looked at me coyly and said, "Disappointed? I knew you would be a stockings and suspender man."
"At least let me take them off for you," I pleaded.
"Hey, easy boy," she scolded.
"I would consider it a rare honour," I bullshitted.
She paused.
"Well, go on then," she said. My heartrate soared.
I looked around the car park considering the consequences if one of our customers had parked next to me and would any second, according to the inviolable principles of Murphy's Law, come out to go for lunch.
What a man of the world I was turning out to be. I had pillaged nightspots over the years from Manila to Mexico City yet here I was in a car park in Essex, my hands shaking so badly I was almost scared to touch her in case one of my stupid, bloody customers appeared or, worse, I couldn't undo the damned suspender.
Almost too scared. I clasped her by the knees and swivelled her bum round on the leather seat to face me.
"That's better. I can work easier from this angle." Angela had clasped her hands behind her head and stared at me with a half smile on her face. Her shirt had ballooned open and her fantastic bared nipples and aerolae were stiffly extruding towards me.
The skirt was again covering part of her stocking tops so I raised her knees and pushed it down towards her waist out of the way rather more than I needed to.
I was looking straight down between her legs and I then realised what she had meant when she mentioned "a quick flash". She was not wearing any panties. My cock jumped in my pants and I licked my lips involuntarily.
She had the most beautiful bush although she wasn't a natural blonde. I could just see the shape of her pussy lips as she casually opened and closed her legs ever so slightly and I made a mental note that, if nothing else happened ever, I would cut out the seat leather and preserve it forever.
I unsnapped the top suspender on her right leg and slid my hand round the inside of her thigh to reach the back one. I rolled the stocking down and carefully removed it. Angela continued to stare at me intently; a pristine moment of high sexual tension and voyeuristic ecstasy.
I just had to slide my hands all the way up her left leg and reached the top suspender without having a heart attack. My left hand drifted round her inner thigh vaguely in the direction of the bottom button and I allowed my fingers to brush against her pussy hair. It was damp.