I’ve seen it all. That’s right, what I witnessed today, that was the last thing on my list before I could say I’d seen it all, and now I’ve seen it all. There was one morning about a year ago when I woke up and thought, “I’ve seen it all.” I laid in bed for hours, depressed. Now, I’m glad I got out of bed for a year, because brothers and sisters, I’ve seen it all.
Although… those two kids are still out there. Who KNOWS what else they have planned? I might not have seen it all yet.
Here’s how it went down: I was going to work the same way I always do, on foot. First it’s up a block to the subway entrance, then a twenty-minute ride, then a few more blocks to work. This morning I was a little late getting on the train. Why, you ask? Let me tell you why.
There was a crowd around me of about thirty people, all enjoying the sweltering heat of a concrete cave under one of the world’s largest metropolitan cities. (In any given week during the summer, you can count on at least a dozen non sequiturs from the passengers about the useless vents that dangle above our heads, visibly blocked up with duct debris. But enough about vents -- I’ve seen it all, remember?)
Each weekday, most of us passengers are in work clothes of varying degrees (that’s degrees Fahrenheit), from three-piece suits to khakis and golf-shirts. There are always a few students on their way to school -- the city is home to over one-hundred colleges within the city limits. You’re always sure to get an eyeful of a pretty girl or, if you’re lucky, a group of girls. They wear sports shorts and untucked t-shirts like it’s a uniform. I used to take a magazine or newspaper which I could peek over so I could watch them, but I’ve seen so many girls flash me shots up their shorts, I’ve dropped my peeping pretexts and just openly stare. All the men do.
So, this morning as we waited for the train, I saw two kids sitting on a bench, a boy and a girl; I’d say they were about college age (geez, I hope they were). The girl was on the boy’s lap, because the other half of the bench was in the possession of an old woman with a cane.
And they were making out. Not just kissing -- I see kids mugging all the time on the train -- and not just holding each other affectionately. No way, this was straight up foreplay. This is what I used to do in the privacy of my backseat; afterward, my date and I would tell people we “made out,” which was not the same as what went on in the hallways or at lunch, that little kissy-face thing the bolder kids did. People just don’t “make out” in public, but these two sure as hell were.
I caught them smooching out the corner of my eye, and I turned to get a better look, still in my peripheral. At first I thought they were just macking on each other, but da-amn, they had left the ranks of the amateurs and were now playing professionally. The boy had his hand up the girl’s shorts and was squeezing her ass. By doing this, he literally exposed the poor thing for anyone who wanted to see; those shorts rode up high and wide, and there was a lot of flesh to be seen. As for the girl, she had her hands pushed up his t-shirt sleeves, grabbing his shoulders and -- believe it -- chest muscles under the cloth.
The kissing was where the real spectacle occurred. I wish I’d taken notes. Their mouths were open wide, and they were frenching each other in what I can only call an aggressive manner. Man, these two weren’t caressing each other’s mouths -- they were LICKING, I could say attacking. You’d think they were trying to win a deep-throat contest. Do you get my point?? They were making out! I don’t think there are many of you who’ve actually watched two people make out before. I sure hadn’t.
It wasn’t just the lip-lock that was amazing, either. The boy leaned the girl back and sucked on her bare neck -- she had on a tank-top, I kid you not, and she moaned. Oh wow, that moan. That was the moment at which I realized everyone else in the crowd was staring at these two. We’d gone silent watching the performance, and when that girl moaned, it echoed through the subway hall like a shotgun report.
I heard some other guy say, “Get a room,” and he meant it. We all laughed at that, even the two kids. But when we stopped laughing, they kept giggling. They looked each other in the eyes and whispered something to each other. They were both very attractive, and when they smiled at each other, it was electric. I couldn’t take my eyes off them.
Boy, am I glad I didn’t. As the train began to barrel down the tunnel, many people who turned to see it missed what I saw next.
Wait a minute, I have to catch my breath. And take a reality check. This is one life-changing story I’m about to continue with. Did it really happen? Not fucking likely, but yeah, I have to decide it did. The details are just too vivid, you know? I should have asked someone on the train afterward if they saw what I saw, just to confirm I hadn’t hallucinated the whole thing, but we were all stunned speechless. Enough yaking, here goes.