As usual on a Friday lunchtime I was in the works canteen chatting to my best pal Stan. We had actually not got very much in common and would not have been natural friends were it not for circumstance. One factor was that we were both employed by the same firm but, he was in the works while I spent my time on the road in the local area as Customer liaison/ Salesman/Trouble shooter - so this was not sufficient basis to form a lasting friendship.
We also lived diagonally on opposite sides of the same road but where that fact need not have thrown us together the combination of the two connections seemed to have done the trick. To tell the truth, the real reason for the friendship is actually Stan's lovely wife Diane because it was only after I first met her that I began to cultivate him. Now I spend every Saturday afternoon round at his house in front of the box, talking soccer with Stan while feasting my lustful gaze on the delectable Diane. I habitually sit with their newspaper on my lap although I seldom read a word but it is invaluable for concealing my state of arousal throughout the afternoon.
Diane is small (the correct word is petite) with short black curly hair, flashing brown eyes and a vivacious personality. She is what is usually described as a 'Pocket Venus' with breasts just a trifle too large for her slim frame and the most perfect arse I have ever seen. The reason that Stan was able to pull such a cracker is that when they met and married he was a professional footballer. At the age of twenty he only played in the second team of a low division side and probably would never have amounted to much but Stan maintains that he had potential. That is academic because, when they had only been married for only five months, he suffered a terrible playing accident. The injury was so horrendous that it not only ended his career but made him incapable of even turning out for an amateur side. Despite this Stan still loves the game - hence the Saturday afternoons and my ulterior motive for keeping him company.
Diane always wore a thong under very tight trousers of a thin material, usually white or some pastel colour and you have got to understand that it made the mouth water just to look at her. In general she always wore figure enhancing very revealing clothes, in contrast to my wife Olivia who was more restrained in her dress sense - apart possibly from Friday nights. On Fridays, Olivia and Diane, together with some other young married women, went night clubbing while Stan and I consoled ourselves down at the local pub. To complete the picture of our situation, I will mention that Diane worked from home using her PC and Olivia was employed by a hosiery firm. My wife's job was similar to mine in that she had to travel round different product outlets but instead of being completely local there were an average of two nights a week when she was unable to get home. Olivia and I had been married for eight years compared to the mere six racked up by our friends but, for various reasons, neither couple had as yet produced offspring.
I admit to casting an appreciative and thorough glance over every attractive woman I saw (and with Diane it was a case serious lust) but this should not give the impression that I thought little of my wife for the opposite is true. Although my conscience is not completely clear, after eight years of marriage I am as deeply enamoured with her as I was at the start. Olivia is tall for a woman at 5' 8" and her three and a half inch heels bring her to exactly my height, (she has a couple of pairs over an inch higher that she wears on Friday evenings).
She has a far more classical beauty than Diane, long honey blonde and a slim elegant body. I liked to think of her as being exclusive, using the word with a fashion connotation as well as her relationship to me. She has all the special womanly parts to a pleasing degree but it is her legs that are exceptional. I once overheard a man describe her as having legs right up to her armpits and although an exaggeration this does reflect the impression that she gives. The current trend for women to wear trousers does Olivia no favours at all but she has opportunity to display her prime attribute at work. When we met, Olivia was doing modelling work and for the first two years of the marriage she was occasionally paid to attend exhibitions and pose on the stand of a hosiery firm, wearing the company product. Then the firm decided to employ her full time at the company headquarters, primarily as receptionist but with duties as in-house model.
After two years of this, the boss of the firm thought the she might have selling ability and decided to train her. So two days every week, he started taking her with him when he visited other cities. After a year he had turned her into a good saleswoman for the company, although I never understand why her training could not be more easily accomplished locally. Olivia took over his two days selling in distant locations and was allocated a local patch for the other three days. At about the same time that she started her training, Stan and Diane bought the house across the road and for the reason described above, I quickly forged a friendship with him. The two women also quickly hit it off and I honestly believe that they are the more genuine friends. We took to socialising in each other's houses on Friday nights.
After some months Stan and I started popping out for a quick pint to the local pub before returning to our wives and only a week or two later were spending over two hours every time with our elbows propping up the bar. This continued until the night that the two girls struck back by saying that instead of staying behind being neglected while we got blathered at the pub, they were going to start going to a night-club together. I think that they only went that first time to make a point but enjoyed themselves so much that it soon became an established part of the Friday ritual.
Having, rather laboriously painted a picture of the situation, I can now continue with the story.
So there I was in the canteen with my pal and more to make conversation than anything else, I asked, "What's up Stan, you're looking pretty glum?"
"Nothing," he said, putting a second dollop of ketchup on the opposite side of his plate to the first.
"Come on," I urged. "You've been as miserable as sin for weeks now. Something is bothering you so you might as well spit it out."
"If you must know, I think that Dane is cheating on me," he said unhappily.
I could not help laughing. "I don't believe that for a second. What the hell has given you that idea?" Stan always did tend to be paranoid - for instance he had a conspiracy theory to explain why he never got promoted and yet from what I heard he just was not very good at his work.
"It's true. I wish it wasn't but it is - I've got the evidence."
"Such as?"
"Cigarette ends. On two occasions I found tab ends of a brand that Di doesn't smoke in the ashtray. I did ask her who smoked that brand. She seemed a bit flustered and then said that a guy from the firm that employs her had called to talk about new work."
"That seems very plausible to me."
"It doesn't explain why there was a tab of the same brand in an ashtray by the side of the bed.
I didn't mention that one to her though." Stan got a bit confidential and explained, "If she is cheating and thinks that I don't know it will restrict what she is able to do but if she knows that I know and carries on anyway then there will be nothing to stop her."
"There is almost certainly an innocent explanation for that one as well," I told him. "You really should have asked her."
"Ever since then the ashtrays are always empty when I get home but it didn't fool me. I rooted around and found that she empties them in the trash bin in the kitchen. Since then I have spotted three different brands of cigarette in there and even a couple of cigar butts. I've also found an empty ashtray in the bedroom and we never take them in there."
"Is that all?" I asked trying to sound dismissive but my faith was rather shaken."
"A wet patch in the bed," he said. The first time we had made love the previous night and I assumed that it was from then but when it happened again it had been three days since any sex and I know she had changed the sheets since then."
"A wet patch?"
"It was cum - you can't mistake that sticky slightly slimy feel."
"Anything else?"
"Yes, he said triumphantly, "I found a gent's watch under my pillow - a real flashy thing. The following night all the furniture had been moved and I knew they had turned the house upside down looking for it. It gave me a lot of satisfaction to know they must have spent the time searching and not screwing. Diane did ask very casually if I had found anything but when I asked, 'Such as?' she just said, 'Oh nothing important'."
"Have you still got the watch?"