The day hadn't been too bad for Lora, but her feet still ached a bit standing behind the teller window for six hours. As she came up the steps into her apartment, she kicked off her shoes and walked to the kitchen. She took a glass from the cabinet, and began to fix herself a gin and tonic. The first sip was so good she let out a nice sigh as it slid down her throat. She pulled her skirt up, and grabbed her slip, and pulled it down. Stepping out of it, she walked back into the living room and smiled as stepping out of the slip reminded her of the truck driver on the way home as she sat down in her lounge chair to enjoy her drink.
She was at the traffic light on Penn Ave., which, of course, was red. A truck was stopped at the light in the right hand lane, and she stopped next to it. The angle and height was just right, because when she looked over at the truck, the face of the driver was looking directly down through the window of her Taurus. She glanced down and saw that her white skirt was quite a way up her leg, and her slip was showing about two inches below the skirt. She couldn't believe it, but the driver winked at her. He was older than her, and looked a bit rough; but she chalked that up to truck driving. Older was good because he probably enjoyed looking at younger women. As she looked at him, she moved her right hand from the wheel and took hold of her slip and pushed it up until she felt the bottom of her panties on her fingers.
She wasn't sure if the truck driver's whole head was going to fall out of the window or just his eyeballs. She took the other hand from the wheel, and did the same thing on the other leg, so she was now sitting there with her skirt and slip just about all the way up, with only a bit of her blue panties showing right in her crotch. She could only see one of the driver's hands, and chuckled to herself imagining what the other was doing. Horns beeped, and she saw the light was green. Pulling her skirt and slip down, she accelerated through the intersection. Watching the truck in her mirrors, she could only imagine this man getting back to his depot and telling everybody, "Boy, you shoulda seen this hot chick. Goddamn, she pulled her skirt all the way up; I could see everything. Honest to Christ, I could guys." And they'd all laugh, and say "Yeah sure's" to him. But she knew it would give him thoughts that night, and his imagination would go from there and soon he'd be beating off with the image of her legs in his mind. That pleased her.
The doorbell interrupted her memory reverie. She set her drink down, and walked down the steps to her door, and looked through the peephole. She saw a middle aged man in a work uniform of some kind. Putting the chain on the door, she opened it.
"Yes?" she asked the man at the door.
"ATT Cable," he replied, holding up a photo ID card. She looked at the photo, read the name on it and the red script on white background on his shirt: both said Bill. She recognized the ATT logo on the sleeve of his uniform, and remembered that she had called a couple of days ago about poor reception. "I have a work order here for Lora Schiner," he continued, mangling the pronunciation of her last name
"Schoener," she corrected, and proceeded to open the door.
He was a handsome, early middle-aged man, carrying a toolbox. She led him up the stairs to the living room, stopped at the top and turned to him, pointing toward the TV in the corner of the room. As she faced him, he was still three steps behind her and his eyes were focused up her skirt until he saw her turn and point. She watched his eyes move and refocus on the TV. He passed her on the landing, and walked toward the TV. She noticed he had very little middle age spread, and a nice butt.
"There it is, and the picture isn't as good as it was a week ago," she explained, as he turned the set on.
The picture came on, snowy and fuzzy, the music of Brittany Spears playing on the VH1 channel she had on this morning.
"The VCR work ok, ma'am?" he asked her.
"Yes, fine. It's just the cable not the TV."
"OK. I'll check it out," he replied, as he turned the set off. Picking up her drink from the end table, she left him to it and went into the bedroom. She ran her brush through her long hair, and redid her lipstick, thinking this could be an interesting afternoon. Maybe it was the fresh memory of the truck driver incident, or maybe just having a stranger in her apartment who was doing a job, or maybe just opportunity. Whatever it was, she folded the top of her skirt under, which brought the length up another two inches but to the casual onlooker she would look no different, except showing more leg. She glanced out her bedroom door, and saw Bill stretched out half on his back on the floor with a light on the open TV back. She couldn't quite see his face, but she did look at his crotch opened with one leg on the floor and the other bent at the knee up in the air. She imagined.