It was 1975, and I was fresh out of boot camp, and went home on leave before heading to school and the fleet, only to find that my folks were packing up and getting ready to move away. This threw all of my plans off, ad I'd been planning on relaxing for a few days and seeing my old girlfriend during my time off, and instead I spent all of my time packing up my remaining belongings and arranging for long-term storage.
After a few days, everything was packed and sorted and ready, but I was tired and grumpy, and only had two more days left before I had to leave, and had gotten a call the night before from my ex, letting me know she was out of town for the rest of the week. This was not the vacation every sailor fresh from training wants or expects.
Fortunately, my dad had retired from the navy, and had at least some idea what I was going through, and the night before I was to leave, he convinced mom to throw a farewell party for me, and invited a bunch of people from the area. Included in this were the 2 women who lived next door. Let's call them Cindy and Cathy. C&C were young - probably in their mid-twenties - blonde, and pretty cute. I'd known them only in passing before I joined up, as they worked nights waitressing, and I went to college full time and worked nights, and so had only seen a little bit of them, and that mostly at a distance. And sometimes through their windows. Heck, as they lived together and I'd never seen any guys there, I considered them off-limits anyway.
The party was pretty good. A lot of my friends from school came by, and my dad's band set up in the back yard and kept the place hopping. We set up the barbecue, and my folks agreed that though I was under age, I was going off to serve, so the beer was no longer off limits.
Needless to say, by 8 O'clock I was feeling a bit of a buzz from the combination of hard work, nerves and alcohol, and had loosened up more than I usually did. (Hey - a lot of us were uptight at 18!), and when at one point I walked into the kitchen to find C&C there. I was much more relaxed than usual, and greeted then not as the (somewhat) older ladies next door, but as equals. They, being more experienced, and also a bit buzzed, decided to have some fun with me.
"You know, I've seen you looking at me before" said Cindy, the taller of the two, arching an eyebrow.
Damn, I'm caught
I thought, but tried to bluff my way through. "Well, you only live next door - you're hard to miss." I said.
"You either" she replied. "You know, if you're gonna whack off, you should close your curtains all the way" and then she and Cathy broke up into giggles as I turned a shade of red that could have set the curtains on fire.
I tried to explain and/or apologize, but they were having none of it, and were apparently determined to make life difficult for me, or at least hard, and after a few minutes of stammering by me and laughing by them, they made me an offer I hadn't expected.
"As long as you're going away, I guess we can give you a proper farewell" said Cathy, putting a hand on one of my shoulders.
"But only as long as you know not to ever expect anything like this in the future" said Cindy, her hand on my other shoulder.