God I just wanted the phone to stop ringing! It had been hell in the office all morning, with one thing and another. I glanced at the clock, nearly lunchtime. At least I could have an hour to myself, an hour of perfect peace and quite. I pressed the intercom button on my desk. âSandraâŠno more calls, Iâm going to take a short nap.â
âVery well Miss Trimble,â came the tinny reply.
I unplugged the phone anyway, somehow I just didnât trust that Sandra. My office was on the fifteenth floor, over looking the river. It had cost me an arm and a leg to get it, but the view was spectacular. When Daddy died, leaving me to run his business, I had fought tooth and nail to get an office with a view. Now I had got one, and I was going to enjoy it, if even only for an hour.
The one thing I had insisted on was my own bathroom. It got hot up here, particularly during the summer months, and sometimes I had to look my best for important clients. Besides I didnât want to keep running outside every time I needed a pee. I pulled my chair over towards the window, which dominated the wall, and perched my self down with my feet up on the coffee table. Then I noticed, horror of horrors! I had a huge ladder running the full length of my panti-hose.
Getting up, I walked across the office over to the bathroom. The bathroom was really something special. It was wall-to-wall Italian marble, with a huge ornate mirror hanging over the âhis and herâ sinks. I canât really remember why I had twin sinks installed; it just seemed a good idea at the time, besides they were Tax deductible. Pulling up my lipstick red skirt, which wasnât very far because I like to wear them short. I removed my laddered panti-hose, screwed them up into a tight ball and deposited the offending items into the rubbish bin.
Walking back to my chair by the window, a wonderful feeling came about me. I realized that for the rest of the afternoon, I wouldnât be wearing any panties. I suddenly felt really wicked and daring. Still it didnât matter, because Iâm seated for most of the day behind my desk anyway. I pulled up the blind on the window so as to appreciate the view, whilst I ate my sandwiches. It was then that I saw him. There outside the window on one of those pulley things, squeezy and chamois leather in handâŠthe office window cleaner! I quickly pulled down the blind again, but left the slats open to let in a bit of the sunshine.
Annoyed that my precious hour was going to be disturbed, by the presence of the maintenance staff, even if they were outside the building. They were still only feet away from my little Shangri-La, my quite time. âOh wellâ I thought, I suppose it canât be helped. I resumed my seat and opened my novel. Now âMills and Boonâ is not everyoneâs cup of tea, and agreed one could hardly call them thought provoking, but never-the-less⊠I enjoyed them, and that was the main thing. In fact the one I was reading at the moment was quite raunchy. I was so engrossed in the book that I didnât realize how carelessly I was sitting.