"Archie...Linda." She said on the phone. "Where are you?"
"Penn Station." I replied.
Linda laughed. "Oh, up to your old tricks eh? Any luck?"
"Not since you baby; it's a desert out here! I'm sure glad I have you to come home to and quench this insatiable thirst." I said.
"You'd better get over here tonight then, I have my own insatiable thirst for that rhetoric you teased me with at lunch the other day. You whetted my own thirst for the weird and unexplained." She said.
I rang the buzzer at Linda's apartment at 7:00 PM. She buzzed me in and was waiting at her door as I got off the elevator. She was wearing a knee length; blue satin robe, blue satin slippers, (not mules) and my favorite coffee colored reinforced toe panty hose!
"Refreshment for my lovely hostess." I said as I handed her a bottle of wine.
"Thank you." She said. "But you didn't need to do that to get a hug and a kiss," as we embraced and kissed.
"And this is just for being so gorgeous." I said, as I handed her a package with my other hand.
"Thank you again." She said with a brilliant smile. "What is it?"
"Why do all women ask what's in a package when the opening of it will serve as, both, a surprise and an answer to the question?" I said, teasingly.
"Well...it wouldn't be polite if I just grabbed it and opened it without asking." She said as she tore the wrapping off. "Seth Speaks." She read aloud from the cover. "What is it?"
"I shall enlighten you subsequently." I said.
"OK, but I have something to show you first, and a story to relate. I had a very exciting day today." She said. "Would you get a folding chair out of the closet for me, and bring it in the kitchen?"
I did so, and opened the chair and sat in it.
Linda hoisted herself up on the counter in front of me and asked, "Do you like my new slippers I got today, aren't they cute?"
"They are beautiful." I responded.
"Now listen." She said as she held out her foot next to my ear, and continually popped her slipper on and off, making that tantalizing sound that only a satin slipper could make popping on and off a nylon-covered foot! "Turn you on?"
"Fantastic." I said. "I'll have to make a recording of that to go to sleep with at night."
She let her slippers dangle from her toes as she proceeded to tell me about her day. Then she let both slippers drop off and put a foot on each of my thighs as I sat in the chair. I started massaging her feet.
"I think I was driving this shoe clerk insane today, trying on all kinds of slippers. I'm sure he was loving taking my slippers on and off, I know I was!" She said. "I couldn't wait for you to get here tonight to do this to me. That feels so good!"