I decided to explore a new part of the city on my daily walk. It took me a while to get out of the areas I had thoroughly explored, but eventually I found myself in a new neighborhood. There were new shops, new gardens in the tiny front yards, new weeds. I always loved exploring somewhere I hadn't been before.
I passed a newsstand, where a science magazine caught my eye. The cover story was about the discovery of alleged examples of extra-terrestrial life. I bought a copy and continued my walk.
I came to a park. It was fairly large, with a nice pond. I walked in, and saw some ducks waddling up out of the pond. I snuck up as close as I could to watch them. Sadly, they soon wandered off.
I was feeling pretty tired, as I'd walked a long way to get to this park, so I thought that I probably needed a bit of a break before heading home. I considered just planting myself on the grass for a bit and reading my magazine, but I noticed that I was in the shade of a gigantic oak tree with very dense branches and leaves.
I couldn't resist, and started climbing up the tree. It looked like I would probably have been able to climb at least fifty feet up, but I found a nice, comfortable spot where a couple of big branches split off around twenty feet off the ground. I opened the magazine and began to read the article about aliens.
It was pretty exciting stuff. There was new evidence of nanobacteria in material which didn't seem to have come from Earth. Of course, I remembered the Martian meteorite, how everybody had been sure that was full of nanobacterial fossils, and then they were sure it wasn't. I thought they were back to thinking they didn't know on that one, though. Maybe this time the evidence was more solid. I read the article all the way through, but in the end I couldn't tell if there was really anything to the new reports.
I heard a squirrel skittering along a nearby branch, and watched him disappear into another part of the tree. I stretched a bit and looked around. I suddenly noticed that there was a man sitting beneath me, at the base of the tree. He had a book in his lap, but his eyes were directed straight up.
I remembered that I'd worn a skirt today, because all my shorts were in the laundry. How could I not have noticed that while I was climbing? With the way I was sitting, he could see right up between my legs, and that was definitely where his eyes were locked.
After a surprising amount of time (were my undies really that fascinating?) he finally noticed that I was looking down at him. He started, and turned back to his book, trying to pretend he hadn't been staring. He was kind of cute, though.
I had a sudden naughty impulse. I slipped off my panties and hanged them from a nearby twig, and then resumed my previous position. I went back to my magazine, wondering how long it would take him to notice the change.
I found an article on those strange four-legged deep sea fish. Apparently, nobody knew exactly how they reproduced; they bore live young, so they didn't do the boring egg-laying followed by sperm-spraying of so many fish. They must somehow have sex. But nobody had ever seen them doing so, and so they couldn't figure out how it was done. I'd have thought something in their anatomies would provide a clue, but apparently not.
One wouldn't have thought the mysteries of fish sex would be so fascinating, but I completely failed to hear the man climbing up the tree until he was right next to me, gasping for breath from the exertion. "Oh, hi there!" I said, "Nice view from up here, isn't it?"
He smiled at me, and replied "it's pretty good down there, too, but I thought I should introduce myself."