"Jeez, it's like an oven in here!" Melanie complained as she gingerly sat down onto the leather upholstery of Gary's luxury sedan. They had worked closely together for several months to land a large account and were headed off to celebrate with a nice lunch at company expense. It was a scorching Georgia summer day.
Melanie was an attractive woman in her thirties with silky fine red hair, green cat's eyes and a figure like a brick shithouse, as her husband so inelegantly phrased it. She slid her long slender legs, encased in silky stockings and businesslike black heels, into the passenger side of the car and shut the door. Gary slammed his door and started the ignition.
Gary was a tall, distinguished man, ten years older than Melanie, with hair just beginning to be touched with silver at the temples. Fellow account executives at the city's largest ad agency, they had just obtained a contract to represent what would become the firm's largest client and they were giddy with success.
After a brief but high-spirited argument about who got to choose the restaurant, Gary pulled out of the office parking lot and headed toward the upscale eatery they had compromised on. Having been coworkers for several years, they counted each other as good friends. They were both happily married, and although there was an edge of sexual tension to some of their conversational exchanges, nothing inappropriate had ever happened between them. However, they were both aware that they skirted closer to the edge than was wise, sharing intimate details of their sex lives and sensual fantasies.
Gary knew what color lingerie Melanie favored and that the undersides of her breasts were the most sensitive spot on her body. She knew he liked to wear metal cock rings occasionally and kept his pubic area clean-shaven. Perhaps they each fantasized about putting this and other accumulated knowledge to use, but they resisted, knowing it would be wrong. Melanie consoled herself with the thought that her fantasies would always be perfect and romantic while real life could often be messy and disappointing.
“Saw Star Wars at least eight times, Had the Pac-Man pattern memorized
And I've seen the stuff they put inside...Stretch Armstrong
I was Roger Staubach in my backyard, Had a shoebox full of baseball cards
And a couple of Evil Knievel scars, On my right arm.
It was nineteen seventy somethin', And the world that I grew up in
Farrah Fawcett hairdo days, Bell bottoms and eight track tapes
Lookin' back now I can see me, Oh man, did I look cheesy
But I wouldn't trade those days for nothin', Oh it was nineteen seventy-somethin'.”
Melanie jumped as Gary hit the radio button and loud music poured from the car's speakers, then she laughed.
"What are you doing listening to country?" she asked. "I thought you were strictly a classic rock kinda guy."
"A well-rounded individual has diverse tastes in everything," he assured her loftily, but couldn't help cutting his eyes at her and grinning. "Besides, Sarah drove my car last night. Her boyfriend is a DJ at that rinky dink country station outside of town so she pretends to like it because she thinks he's, oh how did she put it? Oh yeah, 'Dad, he's such a HOTTIE!' " He rolled his clear blue eyes theatrically and she laughed.
"I sure as hell wasn't thinking of Stretch Armstrong and Roger Staubach in the '70s," he stated emphatically.
"Well, what were you thinking?" she asked teasingly, although she had a pretty good idea.
"Sex, drugs and rock and roll, baby!"
He thought for a second before amending, "well, not drugs so much. Sex was my recreational substance of choice."
"Still is as far as I can tell," Melanie said dryly, and enjoyed the sound of his husky laughter.
"Jesus, we had some wild times back then," he continued.
"I know," she pouted, "By the time I came along safe sex and family values were all the rage. I sure missed out, didn't I?"
"You sure did," Gary rubbed it in. "We used to play games and have a great time and nobody took it too seriously."
"Games?! Like what? Spin the Bottle and Seven Minutes in Heaven?"
"Nah," he chuckled, "a little more adult than that. My favorite was everyone put 10 or 20 bucks in the kitty. You paired up with someone you'd never been with before and the girls went down on the guys. The first woman to make her guy cum got half the money. The last guy to cum got the other half. I was ALWAYS the last to cum. Made most of my spending money that way for a couple of years," he finished smugly.
He glanced over at Melanie, grinned wickedly at her incredulous look and said, "Shut your mouth, you're catching flies."
"Damn, I'm so sheltered," she sighed. "I've only ever been with one person. And he's incredible, don't get me wrong, but sometimes I wonder what I missed."
"Ah, yes," Gary said, his eyes taking on a faraway look. "I remember one night my girlfriend and I went with two other couples to a Grateful Dead concert at the Omni. One of the girls, Tanya I think her name was, was a real cock-hound. She'd just go right up to strange guys and ask them if they wanted to fuck her. That night she picked out a couple of dudes at the concession stand and invited them back to her apartment for a gang bang."
Gary again glanced over and smiled slightly at Melanie's wide-eyed expression.
"Their names were Bill and Ted."
He shook his head, "Shit, I can't believe I even remember all this. Anyway, they couldn't agree fast enough so after the show all eight of us piled into our friend Shaggy's van, the "Sin Bin", he called it. Yes, he really went by the name Shaggy," he answered her unspoken question.
"We got back to Tanya's, smoked a little more weed, drank some cheap wine and everybody mellowed out. Somebody put on some music...Bad Company, I think it was. Then everyone started making out."