The stars are lovely this time of year, the sky as clear as looking through crystal makes you think that you can just reach up and grab hold of your favorites, and hold them twinkling in the palm of your hand. I always feel at one with these nights as the sky and I are both black as pitch. It's always late at night when I at last go out looking for some action. I never go dancing or drinking early, not because I can't hold my booze, but because drinking isn't why I go out. If that were all, then I could stay home with the stars, instead of staring in the action, and by that I mean women of course. By this time of night if the women are escorted both they and the men they are with are loosened up enough for any fun suggestions, women get an itch drinking, the men, mostly primed with liquid courage, feel that they are Superman, or Einstein, and usually wrong on both accounts.
I don't very often go to Sam's, because it's mostly the married crowd, and nearly all white at that, but Sam is a friend of mine, which makes for allowances on the customers part I suppose, since he's almost as black as me, and he serves the best spaghetti around. The ladies could wait another hour I figured as I pulled into a not too crowded parking lot, a nice quiet dinner of spaghetti on my mind as I entered Sam's, and if he wasn't too busy some conversation as well.
Sam had taken over the restaurant from an Italian couple going broke at the time, but instead of kicking them out of their home in back hired them to continue cooking and handling the chores for him. He raised the prices, added a salad bar and built on a cozy lounge with a small dance floor where on weekends he had local musicians keep the customers happy as they got pleasantly smashed. The bar in the lounge is always open, and since tonight was a Wednesday there would be a three-piece jazz combo easing the mellow into the bones.
Sam always works the bar in the lounge himself at night, he lets me eat in there as well so that I can enjoy the sounds, and tonight was no different. Save for the group of married white folks sitting nearby on their way to blitzville whose cars were parked in the lot outside, we had the place all to ourselves.
"Business slowing down?" I asked Sam as he brought my food personally.
"Naw, just a week night, you missed the rush," he laughed in return sitting with me as he poured us both a glass of MontrouchΓ©, then pointed to the jazz combo, "and besides, it's nigger night as the locals call it."
That made me laugh, as he knew it would, because Wednesday night jazz usually packs them in. I always had this sneaking suspicion that it was the wives doing a little window shopping with their husbands coming along to see that they didn't buy anything in basic black. Still the husbands must have reaped the benefits once they returned home or Nigger Night would have flopped a long time ago.
"Oh yeah, there's a concert in town tonight," I said suddenly remembering the tickets I'd given to my friend Lee.
"Happens sometimes," Sam agreed, "but I'll get them on their way home if it's not too late."
"Doesn't end until midnight, I had tickets," I informed him.
"Oh well, I can go to bed early for a change then," he laughed, I'm sure, thinking about those who always had to have one extra last call at 2am.
"Play it again Sam!" Suddenly broke into our conversation from the white crowd.
"Be back, enjoy your supper Dirt," Sam said on his way to see what they wanted.
I wasn't trying to listen in, but then I didn't have to try, as the one white guy was just plain and simple loud. I'll never understand even to the grave how some of the most fantastic looking women in the world end up getting paired with such over confident, loud mouthed, mental midgets. The young woman next to the loud mouth, obviously his embarrassed wife, was the stuff of which wet dreams were made of. It was also obvious, at least to me and every swinging black dick in there that she no doubt was here for a vicarious thrill having dressed as if she were out on the prowl for some stray adventure. From where I sat I could see under the table they were at, and damn if she wasn't wearing suspenders under that loose skirt of hers. I looked at the other couples then, and noticed the same tell tales of women in heat, and husbands without a clue, and not a dog in the whole bunch. The snake in my pants started to raise its head in curiosity.
"Hey Sam," said everyone's favorite loud mouth as Sam served them their drinks, "I wondered if you'd do me a favor."
"Sure Larry, if I can," Sam offered without much enthusiasm.
"Well, it's kind of personal," Larry said whispering as loud as an elephant trumpets before he charges, "and I'll understand if you want to back out, but me and the boys here were just telling our wives that all that bull shit about blacks is just that, mere bullshit. Wouldn't you agree?"
Now a lot of people in Sam's position right there might have belted Larry right then, but Sam is cool, and at the moment was very curious too.
"That depends on what exactly your talking about, now doesn't it Larry."
"Oh come on Sam, you know what I'm talking about," but when Sam didn't budge Larry bulled right through to the point, "the bull shit legend Sam! You know, about blacks being a hell of a lot bigger in the crotch than whites."
"Oh, you mean that one," Sam snickered, then let Larry have it with both barrels, "To tell you the truth Larry, I don't think women, white or black are much different down there, both seem nice and tight to me, and I otta know I've had both."
That had everyone in the place laughing, and not just a couple of the ladies in Larry's group blushed either. However when the laughter died down Larry didn't.
"I'm not talking about the women's crotches Sam, and you know it. I suspect the reason you answered the way you did is because you know I'm right about this. Black men aren't any different in cock size than white men, are they? That myth that all black men are built like stallions is total poppycock!"
"Well, now Larry," Sam replied, "maybe it is, and then again maybe it ain't. What's it to you, and what's it worth to me to prove it?" And Sam looked at each one there at the table in turn to see how they were all taking this.
"Free dinner and drinks for a year for everyone at this table if I'm right," Larry suggested, greed his only interest.
"Okay," Sam countered, "I see your side, but what's in it for me?"
"If we loose, we pay double every time we come here for a year."
"No bet then, you'd just stay away till the year was over, and don't try giving me your word of honor shit, that wouldn't happen Larry, because your word ain't worth shit I hear, but I'll make you boys a counter offer."
"What's that?"
"If you win, you get your year of free food and booze, but if the myth proves to be real here, tonight, now, then everybody at this table is mine to do with as I please for a year, and you all have to agree in writing. I can always use a few white slaves around here, and I ain't had no white pussy in a while either."
"Now wait a minute..." Larry started to argue.
"It's a fair bet Larry," said the man across the table from him interrupting.