A Leaky Faucet: First Time With a Black Girl
(Thursday, February 14th, 2019)
The air was crisp and cold. I could see my breath and also feel a deathly chill from snow seeping into the hole in my boot.
To make matters worse, I had forgotten my scarf and hat, and the wind whipped mercilessly around my neck and ears.
Red.
I cursed under my breath at the changed stoplight. As if it weren't cold enough walking briskly! Now I'd have to stand there for a full minute while the wet, sleety snow put a layer of vanilla frosting on my freshly cut hair.
Green.
It was about time. I stepped off the curb but felt a wave of angry sleet splash against my jeans. Some idiot driver didn't feel like waiting his turn and had soaked me with his impatient tires.
The chilling spray caused me to take a step back and I slipped on the slush and fell on my bum.
I quickly used the 'F' word, and would have shot the driver if I had of had a gun, but I didn't.
Instead I grabbed a wrench from my toolbox which was also on the ground, and thought about throwing it at the car, but then decided against it. The thing cost me $58 bucks plus tax. If it ended up on the road in this ankle deep snow, I'd never get it back.
Yellow.
I sighed in frustration. The light had taken forever to turn green, but was now so quickly changing.
I grabbed my toolbox, struggled to my feet, then moved quickly to the other side.
As I mounted the curb, I glanced at the sign and felt relieved to see the name "Maple Street" written on it. I had finally made it.
I headed off down the street, watching the numbers get higher and higher, until I finally came to the one that needed me.
It was a brown brick townhome, and the driveway wasn't shovelled. When I added that to the fact the lady on the phone needed help with a faucet, then I guessed she was probably single.
The fact that it was Valentine's Day, and she wasn't out on a date, got me thinking she was also probably a little plain looking. But I had been quite wrong about such things before. Still, the fact the lady had sounded drunk on the phone made me wonder. Had she felt lonely and merely toyed with the faucet to make it leak so that...so that...
I banished the thought. Being a handyman, I always thought stupid stuff like that. But sometimes, certain stupid stuff did come true. Like the time that...that...oh never mind.
I mounted the steps and hit the buzzer.
The door opened almost instantly. Had she been waiting right there?
I gawked as she was suddenly in full view.
Long dyed red hair, bouncing like strands of satin off her pretty jet black shoulders.
Sweetly sculpted cheeks, shimmering under the chandelier as if the finest Belgium chocolate.
Dreamy brown eyes, so lovely like pools of sugary molasses.
She wore only a halter top, and a pair of shorts.
She was big breasted, and they seemed to stand up under her top with only a light sag.
My mouth was open like some caught fish gasping for air. Her legs were long, slender and impossibly sexy.
On her feet were open toed suede heels. Her toes were painted a lusty scarlet, same colour as her stunning thick lips.
"You're not quite what I expected," she said with an air of disappointment.
I sighed and shrugged sheepishly. If she had faked a call to get some Brad Pitt lookalike with rippling abs and a muscular chest, she was obviously sadly disappointed. Still, she seemed to still manage a wry smile and eyed me up and down, making me hope I was like red meat, about to be devoured by some desperate lioness.
"Come in," she said, holding the door open wider.
"You got a lot of white frost on your head," she added, almost giggling.
I stepped inside and she closed the door behind me.
"Let me take your coat," she said, holding out hands that showed off shockingly sexy, long red nails. They sent my senses reeling, and I began to sweat.
I watched her hang up my coat until she suddenly spun round and pointed playfully at my pot belly.
"You having twins or something?" she said with a mischievous smile.
She was close enough that I could smell alcohol on her breath.
I too smiled, and was unable to stop the bulge from growing in my pants.
"I started to put on pounds when I turned forty," I managed, my face reddening.
"Does that mean ten years ago or twenty?" she said, giggling loudly.
"Actually, a full twenty," I confessed.
"You're sixty?"
"Uh huh. Just turned the big 60 last week."
"Almost old enough to be my grandpa," she said with a smirk. "I'm exactly half of that, thirty years old."
I began to also smirk and feel warm inside. She was very sexy, very sweet, very playful, very fun loving, and obviously very drunk.
"I guess I do drink too much," she spat out, almost as if she could read my mind. "But it is how I handle things, you know, like stress and disappointment. Occasionally I will drink to get tipsy. But I never do drugs."
"I'm an alcoholic," I said, adding a shrug. "So I never drink anymore. But I don't do drugs either."
I suddenly sneezed and shivered a bit.
She began to look me up and down. "What the hell happened to you? Not only is your hair wet, but all your clothes are soaked as well."
"I don't suppose you'd have a robe or something for me to slip into while I fixed your leaky faucet?"
My implications were obvious, but she wasn't having any of it. She suddenly sobered up and lost her playful edge.
"Sorry if I led you on, but I'm not going to let you take off your clothes. I don't let guys play with my plumbing unless they are much younger, with a mouth-watering six pack and rippling biceps."
I turned red and began to sulk.
"Don't get me wrong," she added, trying to soften the blow. "You seem sweet and sincere, and your face is really cute. But the rest of you merely looks like a cuddly, over stuffed teddy bear."
"And you are looking for a young, irresistible hunk?"
"Something like that," she managed, driving the last nail in my hopeful coffin.
"Still," I said softly, gazing into her dazzling brown eyes. "I find it hard to believe that a gorgeous woman as sexy and as beautiful as you is alone on Valentine's Day."
She suddenly broke out into an amazing, howbeit cautious smile.
"Men," she spat out in mock disgust. "Last year my fiancΓ© cheated on me with my maid of honor just five days before we were supposed to get married. He ended up leaving me at the altar and running off with her. And just this morning my latest boyfriend called to say he wouldn't be able to spend Valentines Day with me tonight because he had to work late. That liar! I called his work place and they said he left with his secretary early. He's probably humping her right now."
"Hard to believe any man would want to break up with an ebony Goddess like you."
She began to twirl some of her sensational dyed red hair around her finger and eyed me suspiciously. My nice guy routine was getting on her nerves, and yet I could tell it was at the same time exciting her that I was really over the moon for her.
She shrugged aimlessly, a sure sign she was uncertain as to where her drunken hormones might end up taking her. I could tell she wasn't willing to trust herself any longer. Lonely women could get desperate sometimes. Really desperate. She suddenly came across as being very horny, not that I'm an expert on beautiful women becoming very horny.
As old and pot-bellied as I was, she decided to quit while she was ahead, and handed me back my coat.
"Thanks for coming by," she said, almost in a deathly whisper, "but I won't be needing your services tonight."
"What about the leaky faucet?" I asked.
"I made that faucet leak myself," she said. "I simply took out the washer and loosened the elbow screw."
"But why?"
She shrugged once more. "The picture on your ad in the phone book showed a really handsome guy in his twenties with muscles on his muscles and a hypnotic, dazzling smile. I was a little drunk and lonely at being jilted on Valentine's Day and so I thought...well you know what I thought, maybe having a few laughs and drinks with some irresistible hunk on what was supposed to be the most romantic evening of the year. I thought, some pillow talk without the pillow, and maybe a few kisses...and even if we had of spent the night, what could it have hurt?"
"That picture was just of a model. He doesn't actually work at our plumbing company."
"I should have known," she whispered. "Men are never who they appear to be."
I took my coat and put it back on. Then I stood facing her for a few moments. She was beyond gorgeous, and so incredibly beautiful. Hard to imagine she wasn't on every mag cover in the world.
"You just love to stare, don't you," she said, almost bitterly. "Men are like that. They eye you up and down and make you think they are interested in all of you, but once they steal your heart, build up your hopes, and then once they get what they want, they take off and leave you on your own."
"Not all men are like that," I protested. "Take me for instance. I would love the chance to cherish and worship and love a black beauty like you. But you would never choose someone like me, no matter how sincere or nice I might be. If you ask me you keep choosing the wrong guys."