This is based on real interactions with real people. I will let the reader decide when it transitions from factual to fantasy. Names have been changed for the obvious reasons. I can't thank Todger65 enough for his editing assistance.
Emerald Eyes
A wild Saturday night at the annual conference
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It is so odd how something, some odd incident, will occur and another odd incident will connect to the first one, and lead to an entirely unpredictable outcome. There is no logical connection between the two until hindsight kicks in long after the fact. It is a false logic. There is no way that the one thing would connect with the other thing, resulting in the outcome that occurred. No one could have predicted it. Who knows what would have happened if they had. Probably nothing would have happened. It was the unpredictability of the thing that made it happen.
Case in point, and the reason I am writing this down, started two years ago. Something happened. In this case I was at the State Convention for a certain not for profit organization. We were installing the new State Commander who happened to be a wonderful and extremely capable woman. She had invited guests to her installation, as was her privilege, and they were a fascinating group of people. I learned this later in the evening as we all shared a plethora of alcoholic beverages.
I walked out onto the rooftop patio area of our hotel to have a smoke. Yes, it's a horrible habit and I really should quit, again, but that has nothing to do with this story. I suppose if I didn't smoke the conversation that came next never would have happened. I did smoke and it did happen.
I had just lit up and was walking by a bench when I noticed the woman sitting on it. She was the female side of a couple that the new commander had invited to the installation and banquet. If I had been sober, I probably would have pretended not to notice her and would have walked on. I would have done that because I would have felt guilty. I would have felt guilty because I'm married, and she was a fucking knockout.
Instead, I turned to her, "Hi. I'm Dave. How are you this evening?"
Within minutes I was sitting next to her on that bench while she told me about her career. I'm not sure how we got to that in our conversation to be honest. I just wanted to listen to her talk, and I wasn't letting segues get in the way of that.
Her name was Barb, I assume short for Barbara, and she had a very successful career. She oversaw the installation of massive material handling systems and had worked with some of the major companies in the United States. You can imagine the pressures on a beautiful woman, leading multi-million-dollar projects, in the construction world. A world dominated by men, some of whom were crude by nature.
Ok you say, I get it, and so what. Lots of women are successful in hostile work environments. If the truth be known, much more successful than most men would be in similar circumstances. I was very impressed with her accomplishments, and I told her so.
There is an odd dynamic between strangers that meet in an environment like that. There is a natural tendency to be at once a bit standoffish, while at the same time wanting to impress, at least a little bit. Add to that environment a virtual cornucopia of alcohol, and you get a bunch of people sharing quite a bit more than they normally would, or probably should. Suddenly, the person they were being standoffish with becomes their newest best friend.
She began to share with me some of the issues she faced. At this point I had a buzz, but I was far from drunk. I was getting a kick out of her getting gradually more graphic about the shit at work that was chapping her ass. I really don't think that she was very drunk. I think that once she got started talking her internal filter that would normally tell her to 'Shut the fuck up' got bypassed. Now that she had gotten started, she couldn't stop. I thought it was probably rather cathartic for her and I was glad to be her sounding board.
I knew from scoping her out as the hottest women in the banquet hall earlier that she was a fine figure of a woman. She was blond haired and wearing a low-cut formal dress that revealed some very nice cleavage. The dress also hugged her nice round butt and her legs looked firm and very attractive. Since I already knew those details, it helped me to focus on her pretty green eyes as I talked to her. I really think the eye contact is what kept her talking. Her significant other was nowhere in sight and I was definitely enjoying the conversation, so I encouraged her as best I could.
Please keep in mind that she showed no outward attraction to me or gave any indication she found me interesting in a romantic way. I suspect if I had made the wrong remark, I would have been shut down immediately. That was fine with me. I am married and really wasn't interested in cheating on my wife. I was just enjoying listening to her. The more graphic she got, the more I was enjoying myself.
She told me about how hard it is to maintain the respect of hard-core construction guys. It was made even harder when a corporate executive secretary was assigned to her for field work. Barb looked at me as serious as a heart attack, "She was putting their thingies in her mouth! All the time! I caught her one day getting ready to do that right in front of the mobile office in the parking lot!"
First of all, I couldn't believe she shared that with me. Second of all, I got the biggest kick out of her description of a blow job. She wasn't done. She looked at me in all seriousness and I believed her every word, "I stormed out of my office and separated them. Then I sent her back to corporate on the next plane. The construction supervisor that she had been getting ready to blow had the audacity to ask me if I was taking her place!"
"Can you imagine? He wanted me to give him a blow job!"
'Whoa' I thought. She just went from 'mouth on thingy' to 'blow job' in moments. This was getting really interesting, and quite a bit of fun. Come to find out, said secretary had been having ongoing affairs with the executives and one of the married ones needed to get her out of town for a while. That's why they had sent her to Barb. They wouldn't let Barb fire her for what appeared to me to be obvious reasons. I wondered if that secretary knew how much power she wielded.