I am a 45 year old salesman for a large mid-Atlantic pharmaceutical company. Like most of my coworkers I maintain a fairly routine field salesman's lifestyle. I live out of a suitcase for about a third of my time, and commute to a windowless office (outside of Charlotte) on the "home" days. As any traveling sales representative will tell you, after a while the cities all start to look the same, and the adventure of new experiences quickly wear off. I have to admit that things were long past the point of boredom for me. At least I thought so before my latest trip.
Last weekend I traveled to Baltimore for a sales presentation I was to give the following morning. It was Sunday and I was staying at an airport hotel while focusing on preparations for the upcoming meeting with my client. After dinner I decided to stroll down to the hotel bar for a quick drink. I went in and parked myself at the far end of the quiet and dimly lit lounge and ordered a beer. I fully expected to down a drink or two before heading back to my room, finish up my presentation, and get to bed early. There were only a few people in the lounge and the atmosphere was dead.
After tilting the same glass for nearly an hour I was about to pay the tab and leave when I noticed a very sexy lady enter the bar. I watched her intently as she paused at the entrance and glanced around the room before heading past the tables toward the bar. Although there were at least twenty bar stools available she selected a spot only a couple of seats away from me. The woman (who I estimated to be in her late 30's) smiled in my direction as she dropped her tiny purse on the bar and hopped up onto the stool. She was dressed in a sexy little black dress, high heeled shoes, and a tiny ankle bracelet on one leg. She was rather petite and very pretty with dark, shoulder length hair, brown eyes, and a fantastic ass. Her lips were full and shimmering with lip-gloss – which she immediately re-applied once she sat down. I noticed her dress was cut very low in the front and revealed a considerable amount of cleavage. I was trying not to openly stare, but from my vantage point the front of her dress draped open just enough to present me with a magnificent side view of an exposed breast. She was definitely not wearing a bra. Even in the soft light of the bar her nipples were firm and quite noticeable through the soft material of her dress. Instantly, my desire to leave the lounge evaporated. I was struck by the fact that the entire bar was practically empty and yet this sexy little thing decided to sit so close to me. I quickly decided the sales presentation work would have to wait until later. I was intensely curious, and more than a little aroused.
The bartender appeared and the woman promptly ordered a drink. I tried not to act like a gawking teenager, but I was unable to completely look away. In between the not-so-casual glances I used my peripheral vision to detect her movements while secretly waiting for an opportunity to strike up a conversation. At this point I fully expected to find that she was waiting for someone else. I did happen to notice that she did not wear any rings.
During the next few minutes we exchanged a couple of smiling glances as she surveyed the bar. I tried to focus on the wall mounted television above, which was tuned to a college football game. Finally the woman spoke up and asked me who was playing. I quickly shook my head and then answered "Ummm, Auburn and Georgia, I think... I'm sorry, I've been a little distracted ever since you came in."
The woman smiled and quickly turned away.
As I expected my "distraction" comment to be a conversation starter, her reaction caught me a little off guard. Suddenly feeling as though she had rejected my compliment, I again considered returning to my room. I waited for several more minutes in silence, and then downed the rest of my beer. I turned in my barstool and stood up as I placed a ten on the bar. As I put my wallet back in my pocket the woman suddenly interrupted me.
"Leaving so soon?" she asked. "I was just about to buy you a beer".
She then patted the seat of the bar stool closest to her. In offering the seat she had swung her position towards me with her legs slightly parted. Without a second thought I gave my thanks and circled between her and the stool to sit down. My hip brushed her legs as I passed. I couldn't help noticing she did not back away as I made contact.
"Now... what were you drinking?" she asked as she leaned towards me. Her hand lightly touched my knee as she awaited my reply.
"Heineken," I responded as I sat back and quickly rested my hand on the back of her chair. I suddenly caught a gentle hint of her scent as she leaned forward to hail the bartender.
The woman ordered drinks and I promptly asked for the charges to be put on my tab. We sipped our drinks and exchanged nervous small talk for several minutes. Her answers to my questions were always flirtatious and a bit mysterious.
At some point I asked the woman where she called home.
"Oh... somewhere nearby," she answered.
"Do you have a name?" I asked.
"Of course I do," she replied.
I was growing increasingly anxious over the conversation. The woman was clearly flirting with me, but her answers remained a bit aloof and, yet, almost impatient at the same time. She constantly looked around the lounge as we talked, as if searching for someone. I quietly wondered why such an attractive woman would be hanging out at an airport bar, and my imagination started to spin. I wondered if maybe she was a prostitute. Surmising that she was probably waiting for someone I took another long swallow of my beer and simply decided to ask why she had come here.
She smiled at my question, and then motioned towards me with a beckoning finger to come closer. She placed her hand on my thigh and leaned in to whisper in my ear. I drew in a long breath of her scent as her head touched mine. I could feel the blood rush from my face as her warm breath tickled my ear and she softly spoke. Clearing my throat, I quickly asked her to repeat what she had said. She slowly backed away for an instant and flashed a wicked smile. Again she leaned in and repeated the words that confirmed what I had heard.
"My husband likes to watch."
As she spoke her hand slid forward on my thigh and rested heavily over my crotch. She briefly sucked my earlobe into her mouth and then pulled away to sit upright in her bar stool with a devilish grin. Startled, I shook my head in disbelief and looked down at the bar in front of me.
"He likes to do what?!?" I asked.
She lifted her glass and took a sip of her drink before she spoke. "You heard me. My husband is here and he wants to watch me play. He says I have a special talent that he likes me to share."
"Holy shit," was all I could think to say as I shook my head and sheepishly began looking around the room for her hidden voyeur. If her claim was true and her husband was in the lounge he was not very obvious. I spotted no one alone.
The woman broke the awkward silence as she took out a piece of paper and quickly wrote something on it. She kissed the paper before folding and handing it to me. "This is my cell phone number," she explained. "Call me from your room if you would like to play." She then turned and slid down from the stool. Speechless, I put the note in my shirt pocket and watched as she started to walk away. She stopped half way across the table area and turned back towards me. Her tongue parted her lips as she gave me a seductive wink and a smile. She then slowly walked out of the bar. I couldn't take my eyes off the woman's sexy backside as she walked towards the door. No one followed her.
I sat at the bar for another 30 minutes and drank another beer before paying the tab and returning to my room. Once inside I put the phone number on the tiny nightstand beside the bed. The note was adorned with the red lipstick imprint of her kiss. My head was spinning and my nerves were shaking as I flopped down on the bed. "Oh, man," I said out loud. "Whew! That was one crazy woman."
I sat frozen on the bed for several long minutes playing out the events over and over in my mind until I was convinced that the whole scenario was just a cruel joke. I shook my head again and then reached out for the paper. I crumbled the note and tossed it into the trash can across the bed. It was getting late and I decided to take a shower and get ready for bed.