"Julia, this nonsense of a 'Time Out' in marriage is just an excuse for one or the other partner to justify having a short 'fling'. If you keep coming at me with this stuff, I'm starting to think you just want to fuck around. Well, I won't stand for it."
"Honey, the magazine insisted ..."
"You want to have sex with another guy, then say so and I'll have the divorce papers drawn up. Then you can fuck around as much as you want. Alone."
"But Jer, the magazine article said my having a Time Out would strengthen my marriage ..." my wife Julia complained.
I countered, "No way I'm gonna agree to your plea for a Time Out. We've been married for 5 years. You want out to fuck around with a drugged-out wimp over a dumb article in a magazine?"
"Oh, no, honey, I love only you. No, I don't want a divorce. It's just that the article said ..."
I'm Jerome Canyon (but call me Jer), a self-employed waste-management engineer, which made me kind of hard-headed and wanting evidence. I wasn't going to go long with Juli's cocked-up marital theories. This month it was Time Out. A few months ago, month, it was light bondage. Late last year, it was temporary celibacy coupled with a vegan diet and yoga. For each new enthusiasm, Julia would be sparked by an article she'd read in one of her women's magazines.
Finally, I just demanded, "Julia van Sant Canyon, drop it. You're a 27 year old married woman. You're not a flighty teen any more. I don't want to hear anything more about an adulterous 24-hour 'fling', justified by a stupid magazine article about a marital Time Out. It's just an excuse for a woman or man to have sex with someone else. If you do a Time Out on me, I'll divorce you the next day. So just stop talking about it."
"Besides," I added, "we've got a dinner date planned for Wednesday evening, with Tom and his wife Harriet. Last I heard, they were bringing along another couple, for us to meet. You remember, I have to make it a mid-week date, because I have that assignment that starts over the week-end, about decreasing the amount of waste paper in small-city landfills."
Julia put on her go-to-party little black dress with net stockings and heels and did her make-up in quiet, which I knew by this time that she was still seething inside, and nowhere near convinced that her latest fad idea was over and done with.
Unreasoning, emotional argument, dressed up in rationalizations, excuses and justifications, thy name is woman, and in particular, by name of Julia van Sant.
But, since were were to be in public, I really expected Julia to keep her current obsession to herself. Tom and his wife picked us up. He brought Warren HungLoWe and his Asian-American girlfriend plus Omar Bateson and his date. Their van was packed. We had a nice dinner at The Pub, over in New Jersey, a place I can recommend for good food and plenty of it.
The trouble started when I noticed Julia, hands repeatedly grasping at her tits and crotch through her dress, staring over at a guy, seated a few tables away. Then I noticed that all the wives and girlfriends were staring at him and feeling themselves out.
I gotta admit, I generally don't stare at men, but this guy was a hunk. Handsome, with a mane of long, jet-black hair, bound up with a silver band at the back of his neck, broad shoulders, long, delicate fingers, mirror-shined boots and the tightest jeans I ever saw on a male person. You could see the outline of his big dick through the material. All three women were looking over this specimen of super manhood-on-the-hoof and breathing deeply, obviously in the first stages of lusty heat.
So,OK, they were all turned on, but we were with our wives and so sure they were off limits to any approach from even a dedicated seducer.
It was even kinda funny, I thought.
But Mr. Drop-Dead-Gorgeous Handsome finished his meal, paid the waitress and tipped her lavishly, but then sauntered over to our table, having caught the looks the wives and girlfriends were showering on him. Ah, the estrogen was flowing like water.
Then the unthinkable happened. Mr. drop-dead completely ignored all us men at the table. His handsomeness looked all over the women there, hands flying all over their clothed bodies, breathing heavily, gestured at the outline of his huge piece of male meat clearly seen in his tight jeans and said, "I'm Ricardo Mt. Calm. Any of you ladies want to ditch the wimp you're seated next to and come with me? I've got 11" of constant orgasm. You'll never forget it."
I was in total shock, as was Tom and Warren. Our wives and girlfriends, propositioned by a total stranger with a big dick. In public. With their men glaring at them, Tom's wife and Omar's girlfriend shuddered and pulled themselves back, clutching at the arms of their respective men.
But I was totally paralyzed, in shock, when Julia looked at me, grinning nastily. She traced the outline of Ricardo's huge cock through his trousers with her fingertips, then said, "Sure, I'll go. It'll be a 'Time Out.' Only 24-hours. He'll make me happy for a little while. I'll be back tomorrow night, you can make me happy again and our marriage will be all the stronger for it, you'll see."
Julia grabbed at her purse, shoved her chair back and made to stand up. I nearly shouted, pleading with her not to do such a foolish thing. I yelled that a 'Time Out' with a total stranger would destroy our marriage. Nothing I said in the next couple of minutes made a dent in my wife's sudden, triumphant, utterly stupid decision to have an overnight affair with Ricardo. Standing, she linked her arm with his, while Ricardo slid his arm around her shoulders and then, quickly squeezed her right boob.
I surged up from our meal, but then caught my foot under my chair, lost my balance and fell flat across the dinner table, smashing my face into the bread, steak juices, drinks and butter. All my friends and their women laughed. By the time I untangled myself, Ricardo and Julia were across the restaurant and leaving. Dripping food and garbage, I raced to the front door, only to find Ricardo and Julia getting into his sports car. Julia was already out of her black dress, as it was a front-zip model and she screamed out a last 'fuck you' as she—dressed only in a skimpy chopper bra and panties, plus net stockings and heels—zoomed out of the parking lot, Ricardo driving, and onto the road around the so-named Airport Circle interchange, just outside of Camden, NJ.
I walked over to the black dress lying on the ground of the gritty black parking lot. Picking it up, I felt the last of her body heat leaving the inside of her garment. My marriage and life were shattered. She was gone now, along with her so-superior smile, as she went off with her suddenly-appeared lover, to have cheating, thrusting big-cock sex for a day and a night.
Just like the magazine article had said, except that her Time Out wouldn't strengthen our marriage, I'd just destroyed it.