It's Friday and I can hear some weird noises spilling out from my husband's workshop, the sort of weird noises one usually associates with getting jiggy in the small hours.
This kind of activity is unusual. Jiggy noises do not usually emanate from the workroom either during working hours or non-working hours. The words which usually emerge from that accursed place of pain and misery are typically Anglo-Saxon in origin, and not suitable for polite company.
Nevertheless, out of curiosity, and sensing some good old sexy fun in the making, I poke my head around the door.
Oh my! Result!
Alex is alone and sitting in the half dark, watching what I believe to be a Cam site. I'm not sure which Cam Site because he shut the window down almost as soon as he realised I was hovering. However, I saw enough to make a smart assumption.
"Err, mate!", I said. "There's no need to feel ashamed if you're watching some grumble."
"I wasn't," he said, looking more than a little embarrassed.
"Hey, I look in on those sites too. If you wanna watch something like that then don't get bent out of shape over it. I really don't mind."
"You don't?" he asked. "Why not?"
"They're horny. And you know me. Me likes my horny..."
"Well, it wasn't a Cam Site."
"What was it then?" I asked, still kinda curious.
"It's one of my mates, Badger," he said. "His Missus did the Pizza-Delivery Flash challenge."
"Oh, that bit of spectacular idiocy!" I said, the tone of my voice intended to openly reflect my complete and utter contempt for such behaviour. I really don't like it.
"And he sent it to you?"
Alex nodded. "And to everyone else, too.."
"Everyone else?"
"Yup, everyone..."
"Let's have a look then," I whispered, by now somewhat curious.
Alex opens up his laptop and the movie begins to stream all over again. And it's exactly what you might expect. Badger's missus opens the door to a Delivery Guy and promptly drops her towel. And whilst she has a lovely body, actually, make that very lovely, the Pizza Guy doesn't react at all. Doesn't even flinch. He just looks dower and miserable and bored. And he likely is because this may be the tenth or twentieth time this week that some bored chick has pulled the exact same stunt. Getting poked in the eye with a flying nipple is only amusing the first five or six times. After that, it gets kinda boring.
Alex thought for a couple of seconds and then said "It looks like fun. Sort of..."
"Well, it maybe does," I said. "But no. Please don't ask me to do that."
"Why?"
"Cos it's a bit shit really..."
Okay, that's his bubble well and truly popped. He looks miserable.
"How?" he asks, rolling his great big puppy dog eyes in my direction. He's trying to change my mind. Like I didn't see that move coming a mile off.
"It might fun but for who though?" I said. "What does the poor Delivery Guy get out of it? A boner that he can't deal with? Or does he whip his dick out and ask for some Lady Love? Because if he does then he's looking at Jail time."
Alex looked a bit fed up, as he often does when he's on the receiving end of yet another of my lectures. And I don't blame him, either. I can get a bit up my arse at times.
"Suppose I'm a Pizza Delivery Chick and I knock on some guy's door?" I asked. "What if this guy opens the door and he's standing there with his cock out? "
"That's different," says Alex. "That's against the Law."
"Yes, it is against the Law!" I said. "But it's not at all different if some guy turns up at our front door and I'm standing there with my foof out!"
"How?"
"Because, in both instances, the person doing the flashing intends to alarm or intimidate their 'victim'. Said victim may not actually want to be flashed. That poor sap may have been traumatised by a flasher at some point. I dunno. Maybe his Aunty Mabel was in a funny mood and ripped off her chemise. That poor guy might not be at all attracted to the person displaying their what-nots. Doesn't matter. The point is, the flashing is not accidental and it's not at all consensual. It's a violation. You have a right to go to work and not to have someone's dangly bits poked in your ear."
We continued this discussion for a few minutes longer, right up to the point where it became very, very obvious that Alex was getting very bored, and then very cross.
At this point, I decided that a retreat to the kitchen was fast becoming a necessity because I was starting to sense a major strop in the making.
That said, ten minutes later and Alex is back in the kitchen. Good news. We're all smiles and fun grooves but he looks kinda disappointed. I don't like seeing my man looking down.
"Tell you what," I whispered. "Let's adopt a compromise, okay?"
"Okay...???" he said. "What have you in mind?"
"Why don't I play the part of the 'bored girl at home'?" I said. "... and I do the Towel Drop Challenge but just for you? How does that sound?"
"Yeah?" he said, suddenly looking altogether happier.
"And you play the part of the Delivery Driver."
"Huh? Me? The Delivery Driver?"
I nod. "Yeah. Why not?"
"Really?" he shouted, unable to believe his luck. "Yeah! Wowza!"
"Good, then how about tonight, eh?"
"Tonight?"
"Tonight..."
"Really?"
"Yes..."
"For real?" he asked. "You're not just gonna drop out at the last minute and claim 'I have a headache'?"
"I promise," I said. "It's a deal. Cross my heart."
"A deal! What time? I'll even cook the pizzas myself."
And off we go.
Speaking personally, it feels good, very good, to know that I can give my husband a major league boner at the merest suggestion of the smallest bit of sexy action.
"But no cameras and definitely NO livestreams, please," I stressed. "Your mates have seen enough of my chuff of late so... No."
"Not even for my own use?"
"Maybe," I whispered. "But only on the condition that you DO NOT show it to your mates, okay?"
Alex nodded and smiled but I'm utterly convinced that he'll ignore my demands and show the photos to his friends the very next day. He does this.
So, skip forwards to eight o'click and, as per our agreement, Alex has been cooking up some pizza and the smells coming from the kitchen are beyond gorgeous. Guess I'd better deliver on my promise.
Alex found himself a suitable 'Delivery Driver' style coat i.e. a scruffy, grease-stained anorak replete with a sweaty NY bump-cap and a pair of moth-eaten Converse Pumps. He looks the part exactly. The pizzas are, mercifully, in proper boxes and secured in a 'stay warm' wrap.
Alex nips out the side door and goes to his workshop, where he has a GoPro Hero ready and waiting to be fitted to his lapel.
Meanwhile, I'm waiting in the kitchen, suitably attired. Or not as the case maybe. Unbeknownst to him, I've positioned my iPhone at the foot of the stairs and installed a little Panasonic Lumix by the door so we can record both front and rear views. Hey, I'm just as keen to record the sexy as he is. Better still, with three cameras all filming from different vantage points, I'll be able to edit the whole scene into a video, save it to a Memory Stick, and maybe slip it into his Christmas Stocking. I do this. I'm nice like that.
Here we go.
"The game is afoot," to quote the Master.
There's a testy and every-so-angry knock on the door followed by the impatient ring on the bell. My dog, Sam, now old and suffering from dodgy hips, goes berserk but then retreats to his bed because he knows Alex's profile off by heart.
I walk to the door, swing it wide and Alex calmly announces "Pizza Deliver for Knight..."
"Oh, thank you," I say, playing the part to perfection. "Let me get you your money."
I turn and this is the where my nightgown is supposed to fall off, which it does. And this is the bit where I apologise profusely and vainly attempt to make myself decent but, actually I just make it worse and end up with my taters and ass on show for all the world (and three cameras artfully placed) to see.
And Alex laughs out loud. He's ecstatic. He cannot believe his luck.
I've even back-combed my pubes so they're absolutely massive. It's like a Blacksmith's apron down there.
Alex enters as I'm fumbling around in my purse for a twenty pound note - with all of my goodies on show - and I stop and I pause.
Why's he laughing? And pointing?
He's laughing because I've put on a really, really good show (I like my sexy...) and he's pointing...
Because we're no longer alone.
Our housekeeper, Soovi, is also here.
Soovi is standing on the stairs with her hand across her mouth and a wide-eyed expression on her face which varies between "Oh My God!" and "I am sooo shocked!".