I was on my way back from dropping the kids off at school and was about to go find a café to do a little work, when I ran into my friend Mary. She was always good for a laugh, however today, Mary's face was flushed, and she had a manic look in her eyes. "Are you going to the café for the choosing?"
"What café? What choosing?" I demanded.
"Oh my god, you don't know!" Mary said horrified before she glanced down at her watch, "I have a spare ticket. Follow me!" She screamed before she took off at a near dead sprint.
Five minutes later Mary and I were stood shoulder-to-shoulder with fifty other women in the back room of the café that all the mums from the school frequent. I recognized several of the other mums. Some gave me a smile and waved, while other just kept their eyes down in shame. And I knew there were exactly fifty women in the room, for when we entered, we were given wooden spoons with numbers on them. I was given the last spoon, number fifty.
Usually, the backroom at the café was a light and sunny place, but today all the windows and blinds had been shut which gave the place a dark and sweaty smell. Also, there was a nervous hum as all the women stood around a large table that sat empty in the middle of the room.
"What the fuck is going on Mary?" I hissed.
"You know Lilly, the owner of the café, and how she is a lesbian right?"
I hadn't known that Lilly was a lesbian until now, but I nodded my head anyways.
"This summer she was on a walking tour across the Alps, when she met this Austrian woman, a milkmaid on a farm, and the lady had the biggest hands in the world!"
Several of the nearby women who were listening all nodded their heads in agreement.
Suddenly a meditation singing bowl rang out, and the room when quiet as the door to the kitchen open, and in walked Lilly. Lilly was a good-natured woman, who was a little older than me, and well liked in the community. She was dressed in her typical yoga pants and a white t-shirt from her café.
Behind her, in stepped another, taller figure with long platinum blonde braids, large boobs, and big strong shoulders. The woman was dressed in a formfitting, all black pair of yoga pants and a matching top. My eyes went to her hands, but they were obscured by a blanket that she was carrying.