I opened the door a few seconds ago, not expecting a visitor. Grinning in front of me was someone dressed exactly how one would expect a plumber would, wearing canvas coveralls, a crushed denim cap, and carrying a nylon bag heavy with equipment. His leather boots were the cleanest thing on his body, and I swore that I could smell a hint of fresh shoe polish. He had knocked only moments ago the way he had done to thousands of front doors, confident and polite, except the smile dropped from his face as soon he saw mine.
"W-wrong apartment, sir." he stuttered as he fumbled to tip his cap at me.
"Oh no worries," I said through a cheery smile. "Which apartment number are you looking for?"
He croaked out some other form of apology, inaudible to my ears as he snapped around to retreat back down the hallway. I felt bad for the middle-aged gentleman, sympathizing with the eternal struggle of trying to avoid any social faux pas, only to fail.
"Have a good night!" I said as he silently hurried away.
The door hinges squeaked as they swung shut, and the realization clicked at the same time as the deadbolt: why was a plumber in my complex at one in the morning? The paranoia of a possible intruder was luckily alleviated by remembering that plumbers do often make emergency calls for nasty leaks, and maybe it was for a friend or someone in need.
Whatever the reason, I was more concerned about the booze in my cabinet that wasn't being drunk. It had been a long night on the line at work, and whipping out more perfectly cooked steaks in one night than I ever have before felt like a meager accomplishment compared to getting through the damn shift in the first place. The foliage tourists, or leaf-peepers as we called them in New England, were coming to the northeast in droves to see the same stupid leaves I had to rake off the deck as a teenager, and work had been slammed for the past two weeks straight because of it. My only day off in those two weeks had been to celebrate my 21st birthday, and I was still working on the suite of liquor bottles I had received as gifts.
My bathrobe fell open as I bent down to pick a gin bottle up off the kitchen floor, and I was surprised by the chill that I felt in the October air. The window had been left open since I moved in last month since my shitty apartment didn't have A/C, but now that it was getting colder I kept forgetting to close it at night. I lowered the sash and sat for a second staring at the complex parking lot, the only view I had from my two-room apartment. Next to my itty bitty compact car was a hulking van that looked like it had been through a battlefield, and on it was the phrase Jackson & Sons Plumbing. I chuckled as I thought about the poor confused late night plumber and turned away from the window. I shrugged off my robe as I walked back to the gin to make a classic G & T and unwind in front of my laptop.
An hour and 3 drinks later and I was right where I needed to be. I was starting to get bored, but I wasn't tired enough to sleep yet. As always, I opened my trusty folder of porn bookmarks and grabbed an old musky pair of boxers from my laundry pile to use as a cumrag. I'm uncut so I didn't need that much lube to begin with, plus I had the added bonus of being able to leak precum like it was my job. I settled onto my desk chair and opened a favorite video involving two hung convicts and a bunk bed being used as a gloryhole.