"Great game guys, thanks."
I was dripping wet. I'd come to the park to shoot a few baskets before it got crazy hot. Just when I thought it was time to call it a morning a couple of guys asked to play a little one on two. If you don't know the game, two defenders versus one with the ball, only the "one" can score, lose the ball due to defense or missed shot and now you're the #3 defender, the # 2 defender becomes the #1 guy with the ball. The ball always rotates 1, 2, 3 so a good rebounder or defender doesn't dominate. We played first to twenty one, halfway through the heat hit us - not that we stopped playing. That game was a fucking Hell match...I did not win.
Thus was the successful conclusion that left me absolutely dripping with sweat. No way to avoid it really. We're in week five or six of a vicious, brutal heat wave. And as bad as the heat is, the humidity is way worse. I'd come to the park early enough to shoot some baskets and finish before the heat became oppressively intense. A good idea until I got too wrapped up in that game. And now I was wrapped up in soaking wet cotton.
Damn.
I stripped off my t-shirt (it's a classic Deadmau5, saw him at Coachella last year, and yeah, I got the t-shirt) and walked to one of the last picnic tables still in the shade. My shirt was wring-worthy wet but there was no way I was going to twist it - that was a sure way to damage the graphics. So stopping at the table beneath some of the last shade of the morning was a necessary part of my cool down and the preservation of one of my favorite shirts. That the table was up slope from a popular jogging trail was an added bonus.
I sat on the tabletop, my feet on the bench, and draped my shirt over my knees and thighs to allow it to dry. At the same time I let the shirt act as a privacy curtain because the crotch of my shorts was soaking wet (I sure as shit wasn't going to take them off.) The short walk had emphasized that a game of 2 on 1 and sweat soaked cotton shorts - especially when you go commando - can really chafe you raw (and right where you don't want chafe to happen.) So with t-shirt in place I pulled the left leg of my shorts up over my groin and adjusted the boys to air dry them. The right leg I stretched out toward my knee with the intention that when it was dry I'd switch.
Once set I leaned back to watch for cute joggers bouncing past. And bounce past they did, I'm not the type to indulge in age discrimination and nodded approval at women in their 20's, 30's and more (not that any deigned to acknowledge my attention.) It had all the makings of a perfect morning. During a pause in the jogging parade I slowly rolled my head in each direction to loosen my neck and shoulders. I was actually looking up when the voluble invective began.
"You miserable excuse for a...for a...you asshole!" I smiled first, some guy was catching shit. Then I noticed that it was getting louder, was someone walking towards me? What? I glanced toward the source of this venting ire, OH CRAP. "You spermswilling - pusbreath - shitlicker!"
Spittle was flying from her mouth. Apparently words beginning with the letter "P" were the prime cause, although an explosively expressive "FUCKTARD" also contributed to the aerosol bombardment, as in;
"You predatory...ball licking...jerk-wad-prick-fucktard..."
Who was yelling at me? Heather McCann, recently graduated and likely headed off to University in a week or three. There was a time and it was a relatively recent time at that - when confronted by an angry girl, especially one as angry as Heather - I would have folded. I would have been paralyzed-in-panic, frozen-in-fear, completely and utterly unable to respond, other than profusely apologizing for anything, everything or nothing I'd done. Seriously, having any girl rounding off on me - let alone one as high up the pecking order (to say nothing of her undeniable hotness) as Heather McCann - that can be socially detrimental in its significant, i.e., being indelibly assigned to the Loser List. The word goes out and you find out you're toxic, no more invites to parties (and if you show up some jock or three tossed you out.) I knew a guy who had that happen to him, his high school social life simply ceased to exist.
Heather's anger was unabated, she was moving way past livid, and closing in on thoroughly frothing. Her forehead was creased in anger and her face was red and blotchy. She was waving her arms around and every so often she'd point a finger at me as she made her point...whatever point that she was trying to articulate. If I wasn't sitting on top of a picnic table I think she would be trying to kick me. You had to wonder (I did) how much longer was she going to be able to keep this up.
There was another problem, actually a couple of problems that I was unable, if not incapable, of ignoring. Thank God I was wearing mirrored sunglasses. Why you might ask, because in the presence of Heather's perfect pokies - the phrase "hey asshole, my eyes are up here" - becomes so many random syllables without any comprehensible meaning. I mean, c'mon, we're talking about Heather McCann, the girl voted "best boobs" four years running (not that you'll find any mention of that in our glorious yearbook) and her nippleliness was the stuff of legend (you know how everyone talks about the nipples of that actress on TV, the one on the show about..whatever it was supposed to be about. The one with constant pokies! You know who I'm talking about. Well there's no contest - Heather's pokies win.) The case for nipple excellence is simple, they have to be be more 'on' then 'off', any effort to disguise them draws even more attention to their prominence. I am a great believer of embracing the nipple(s). And an undeniable advocate of "if in doubt thrust them out" for all to see and appreciate.
I'm guessing Heather didn't figure on encountering me when she decided to go for a morning run because the sweat-soaked jogging outfit she was wearing was not capable of hiding her enchanting and thoroughly beguiling figure. I've enjoyed seeing her pokies since they first appeared lo those many years ago. Which for some strange reason reminded my of Emily Sandoval and the first time I touched a bare nipple. And touch it I did to the point that Emily got so hot and bothered that she didn't even notice that I'd exposed her breast until I licked it (her nipple.) Emily oh Emily, talk about a young man's sexual education.
There was this one time she came over to the house and I convinced her it was National Skinny Dipping in a Pool Day. She was bare-assed in no time and that image when she bent over to take off her bottoms and I was behind her...OH SHIT! The memory of the naked and delectable Emily gave me a serious, mind-numbing ERECTION! Between Heather's pokies and the fond memory of Emily's bare ass... I had a major wood event! It felt like a freaking redwood was sprouting between my legs. Clearly my cool down strategy had not just failed but become borderline disastrous.