I was sitting at the table enjoying a morning cup of coffee, reading a book that I had propped up in front of me. Everything was nice and peaceful until my blasted cat got into the act. He came padding along the table to be petted, which was probably reasonable from his point of view. That's what I was there for, in addition to feeding him.
To make sure he had my attention he smacked the book I was reading. This resulted in an unfortunate chain reaction. The book slid across the table and banged into my mug of coffee, hard enough to knock it off the table. I have reasonably good reflexes and was able to catch the mug before it crashed to the floor, but I was unable to prevent a healthy splash of hot coffee from sloshing out of the mug and onto my lap.
I had the mug back on the table even as I'm jumping to my feet. My slacks and panties were down and off and I offered some rather loud and rude profanities to the cat. I mopped myself dry with my slacks, seeing they would have to go in the wash anyway, feeling thankful that the coffee was only hot, not burning hot.
I turned around to take the slacks to the laundry and found Rob from next door standing there, looking very amused.
"What, may I ask, do you want?" I demanded, giving him a very irritated glare.
"I heard you speaking very loudly to someone and I knew Mike was at work so it couldn't be him. I came in to see if you were in trouble."
"I was just yelling at the blasted cat," I told him. "He spilled my coffee over me."
My voice sort of trailed away at that point as I was remembering that my slacks were in my hand and my panties were lying on the floor. I was standing there flashing him which no doubt explained his amusement. I could feel my face turning red.
Before I could tell him to take a hike he reached over and trailed his fingertips lightly over my mons.
"You're looking a little red here," he told me. "Were you scalded?"
"No," I said somewhat frantically. "The coffee wasn't actually that hot. It was more the anticipation of being burned that frightened me. Ah, would you please remove your hand?"