This story is dedicated to a fellow New Zealand author KJTatts.
It makes life very enjoyable when you can enjoy your work, and life gets very pleasurable when there are nice surprises at work as well.
I work as a Project Manager on a construction site in Auckland, New Zealand, and I often start work at 5am as it gives me a couple of hours of uninterrupted time to do paperwork in the site office, before the site lads arrive for a 7am start, and from then on I get very little time to work on planning, etc.
During the winter it is pitch dark outside the site cabin that I work in alongside the main road where the site is enclosed by a wire security fence. Opposite my office is a row of bungalows (Single storey homes for our American cousins), which are quite close to the road.
One morning about 6am I noticed the bedroom light come on in one of the bungalows across the road and a young woman of about 25 to 30 looked out of the window before turning & heading out of sight, when after a brief pause the bathroom light came on at the end of the house.
Thinking nothing of it I got back on with clearing the various faxes & other paperwork that I needed to catch up on. Ten minutes later the bedroom light came back on and the woman stood close to the window again. Just as I was about to turn my attention back to my boring paperwork, I suddenly thought I had seen her disrobe as she walked away from the window. I couldn’t have been that lucky surely?
When it comes to the choice between doing paperwork and checking out if you had seen a woman become naked, then the latter wins hands down; so I got the theodolite out of its box & set it up on my desk. A theodolite is basically a surveyor’s telescope that reads angles & distances for setting out our building works. Fortunately our construction site is on raised ground above the road, and the ground falls away as it reaches the bungalows, so I am sitting at a higher level looking downwards into the bedroom
Sitting at my desk looking through the 100 power telescope I had a clear view through the illuminated window and yes there was a naked lady drying herself off with a fluffy bath towel while standing in front of her full length mirror on the far wall. Shit I couldn’t believe my luck.