It was late Thursday afternoon and I was standing at the front of the "Standby" line and I was certain to get a seat. I was beat. I was dressed in a sweat shirt, jeans and a baseball hat. I had been working straight since 7:00AM with only a bagel to hold me. I was starved. But I had finished a day early and that was a good thing. I was headed back to Orange County. I had been gone a week and I missed my wife. I'm Jack Murphy and work as a senior technical troubleshooter for my company. I only get called out when the "shit hits the fan" with our big clients. I am expected to hit it and quit it with zero tolerance for mistakes. The compensation is excellent and the stress is high.
Four years ago I meet Erica and six months later we were married. She was a knockout with a great figure and small tight ass that saw plenty of action from me and, no doubt, others along the way. When I married her, I was 30 and she was 26. We both ate lunch at the same soup and salad shop. The place had become quite popular and finding a table to sit was increasing difficult. One day, with no place to sit, I imposed myself on Erica and asked if I could sit at her table for lunch. From that day on, we always ate together. A week later, we went on our first date, a month later Erica was spending the weekends at my place, and two months later Erica moved in.
Erica wanted to wait awhile before having kids, but life with her was good. I enjoyed coming home to her in the evenings and there was hardly a weekend that went buy that we didn't spend time doing joint activities. We belonged to several clubs - softball, bowling, and bike riding. We would frequently dine out and see a movie or go to the theater and catch a musical. I was traveling less and less and enjoying my weekends more and more. Erica soon got out of the corporate world and decided to open a home business selling wellness products. She spent a lot of time on the Internet making contacts, designing her Web page, and advertising.
Erica had set up her office in our den which was not near the kitchen or bedroom phone so if I needed to call her during the day, I got in the habit of ringing her mobile. She certainly was well qualified to operate a home business. Erica had a business degree from Cal State and a MBA. I had graduated with a dual major - a degree in Computer Sciences and Electrical Engineering. I wasn't a computer geek. I played rugby in college because I just couldn't afford the time to play football. Yeah, I have big arms and legs and enjoyed American rugby. Here, it is more like a rolling brawl than a game of finesse. We never quiet learned how to play the game properly. All I told Erica was to keep good records and document her expenses because I didn't want any problems with the IRS from sloppy bookkeeping. I told her to hire a part-time, computer-literate clerk if she needed help in recording her daily transactions.
Things were going well and Erica business was slowly coming up to speed. She was steadily growing the business and developing a firm base of clients. I was proud of her. I am glad she was fulfilling one of my dreams - to be my own boss. Unfortunately, I was being paid too well and could not afford to quit. So I was stuck.
I must have zoned out thinking about Erica while standing in line because I jolted a little bit when I heard my name being called out. I handed my standby boarding pass to the attendant, boarded my flight, and sat down heavily in the first open seat. I had made the flight. We were soon in the air and I order a scotch to relax. I would be home in an hour and half. It wasn't a long flight from Reno to Orange County but I could take a cat nap. Before I knew it, the lights in the cabin went on and we were landing. I looked at my watch and it was already 8:00PM. I knew that Erica had long ago finished dinner and I didn't want to disturb her so I thought it would be best to stop at the Curley Joe's, bar and grill about 10 minutes from home, and grab a bite to eat. They have pretty good rib eyes and I was starved. Thursday night shouldn't be too crowded; not like Fridays, which are a zoo.
A half hour later I wheeled into the Curley Joe's parking lot. It was about half full. That's not bad. I won't have to wait and I can grab something quick and get on home. I walked in and sat down at a back table. I didn't need a menu; I just needed food. A cute little waitress came up and asked if I wanted a menu and I told her just a scotch on the rocks and a rib eye done rare. She came back with the scotch and I slumped back into my seat.
As I took a sip, I glanced up and thought I saw my wife walk through the door. I did a double take and there was no question about it. It was Erica. And right behind her was some guy I had never seen before. Something was a foot! Erica was wearing a mini skirt, high heels with no stockings, and a sweater. I could tell she wasn't wearing a bra from the way her C-cups were bobbling and wobbling with each stride.
Not only was I sitting in a dark back corner but I had my baseball had pull down in front. There was no way she would recognize me. I decided just to watch her and see if I could find out what in the hell was going on. I watched them scoot into a booth with there back to me. They both sat on the same side of the booth so I suspected that this was no business meeting.
A couple of minutes went by and then I noticed him lean over and kiss my wife. She turned her head and kissed him back. Very soon they had each other's tongues buried in their tonsils. I was now starting to see red, but I was cool enough to run through various scenarios of how I should play this out.
I could sit here, eat my rib eye, and do nothing. That would buy me time to investigate who this guy was and how long this had been going on without Erica knowing that I knew. Or I could bring it to a head right now, cause a scene, probably wind up punching the guy out, get arrested for battery, and sued in civil court. That would leave my wife free to go on her merry way with whomever she please and while I am sitting in the can, she could wipe me out financially.
Just then, the waitress asked me if I wanted another drink. I looked at her and impulsively said, "Bring me a couple of pitchers of beer and three glasses. I have friends coming to join me." A couple of minutes later she returned and set the two pitchers and glasses on the table and wondered off. I stared at the pitchers for a little while and then glanced up. The guy was leaning into Erica now and I suspected he was giving her tits a good working over. So I said to myself, "Fuck it!"
I thought to myself, 'The action is getting a little to hot. It's time to cool them down a little." I walked over to their booth and stood behind them. I raised the pitchers and said, "Surprise!" as I poured the contents on their heads. They were so startled that they froze in place. The beer was that cold. The guy turned around quickly and I told him he had 30 seconds to get the fuck out of the bar. Apparently, he was no hero because he scrambled out of the booth and quickly left. I didn't even look at my wife as I strode past the booth and dropped a $100 in front of the bartender who had a big smile on his face. I guess that made up for the time he would spend with the mop.
I heard my wife screaming, 'Where the fuck do you think you are going!" I turned back and tipped my cap and walked out the door. Little did Erica know that I was going home to confiscate her computer and take it over to my friend to download every bit of information I could find on her hard drive. My gut feeling told me she spent her time hooking up with guys from the chat rooms rather than conscientiously working her home business. In my mind, there was no question she was fucking behind my back; I just didn't know the extent of her fucking, but I would shortly find out.
She also didn't know that I had attached a key logger to her keyboard before it plugged into the back of her computer. I always do this in case because it is easy to forget passwords and a key logger will record passwords. Unfortunately for me, I had no reason to check the key logger.
Although a key logger records every key stroke, it is not inherently a bad thing. It only becomes a bad thing when one spouse is doing things on the computer that he or she shouldn't be doing.