I love the way the Climate Change religion generates work for the average tradesman. Take this latest governmental lurk, paying to have halogen ceiling lights replaced with equivalent LED lights. Not only are we allowed to charge the customers for a visit but we get a five dollar rebate from the government for every downlight we switch. And the government provide all the LED lights.
The way my boss works it, if a place had ten or more halogen downlights he waives the service charge. Why not? He's getting a minimum of fifty bucks for a minimal amount of work. Mind you, I had an interesting experience at one place I went to. It was a big two-storey place and they had halogen lights everywhere. Seventy two of the little suckers. It only took me about an hour to run around and change all the lights and that was three hundred and sixty dollars.
The government has wised up a little, though. Not like the last debacle. You have to be able to produce the lights you removed and show a photo of the room with the new lights plus a photo of any transformers. (We got an extra rebate if we had to replace any transformers.)
Anyway, I was telling you about my experience at this place. When I got there the door was answered by this lovely young thing of about twenty. Her husband wasn't home but he'd told her I was expected and she would sign off to say the work had been completed. She was casually dressed in a house-dress, but it was obvious a very fashionable house-dress. It was fastened up the front by a row of buttons, each button nearly touching the next. Now you might think that was a lot of buttons but the silly things were around seven or eight centimetres across. I've never seen such large buttons.
I should mention that the top two buttons were under a lot of stress and failed if they were supposed to keep the two sides close together. The superstructure under the dress was sufficient to force a gap, revealing something silky and lacy. Quite a dress, that was.
I have to say that the lady of the house was very conscientious about making sure I was doing my work. She followed me from room to room, nearly causing me to trip a couple of times. I was using a small step-ladder to assist in reaching the ceilings and every time I stepped down from it I was practically bumping into her. A couple of times it wasn't practically bumping but actually doing so. (She had a very soft chest I noticed.)
She could talk, too, chattering away the whole time. A suspicious mind might have thought there was a bit of sexual innuendo in some of the things she said but I knew that couldn't be so. She was just rather innocent in her outlook on life.
Still I was extremely aware of her presence, becoming more aware each time I turned around her and found her standing within my personal comfort zone. She was also a toucher, hands fluttering around, fingertips lightly landing on me, touching a shoulder, touching my chest, just making contact as she chatted, and she didn't stop chatting.
I'd just got down from changing the globes in the last room, a bedroom. I turned around and there she was again, standing right next to the ladder so that when I turned I was pressing up against her, her breast bumping against me. I gave up at that point. I started undoing those stupid buttons.
The first two yielded with barely a touch, what with them already being under strain. She blinked and looked down at her exposed breasts (a nice bra but it didn't cover all that much) and looked a little bemused.
"Ah, what are you doing?" she asked.
"We keep on bumping into each other," I said. "I just feel it's only fair that I see what I'm bumping into."
By this time I'd reached the bottom buttons and flicked them open. With buttons that size there weren't many needed to travel from neckline to hem, and now they were all open with the dress gaping wide.
"But, but, you shouldn't do that," she pointed out.
"I know that," I agreed, "and I'm sorry, but I just can't help it. When I see something really lovely I just feel the need to see all of it. Now if you'll excuse me. . ."
I was lucky. That excuse for a bra had a front fastener and now it was unfastened, dropping away from magnificent breasts that didn't need a bra to hold them firm. My hands landed on those breasts, stroking and squeezing them, getting a good feel of them.
"Why are you doing that?" she asked, sounding a little indignant.
"Just making sure that they're natural," I explained, "and they certainly feel that way. Absolutely no enhancements needed. Mother Nature does superb work."
"Well, thank you, but I already knew they were real," she said. "I'll thank you to take your hands off them."
I did as requested, of course. I shifted my hands and started rolling her panties down.
"You stop that. You can't do that. Why are you doing that?"
"I already told you why. Something lovely deserves to be properly seen and admired."
With that I brushed her dress and bra straps off her shoulders, letting them fall away while I stood back and admired what was now on display.
"Magnificent," I murmured. I closed my eyes and let my hands drift over her, starting at her breasts and wandering down. Her nipples, I noted in passing, were already erect, and sensitive from the little shudder I felt as my palms dragged over them.
"You shouldn't be touching me," she said, breathing hard, sounding a little flushed. "Why are your eyes closed? I thought you wanted to look at me?"
"I am looking," I protested. "With my fingertips. They're much more sensitive if you touch something without looking directly at it."
"Just what do you hope to achieve by this little display?"