The Club was its usual din when I walked in the door. A sort of rockabilly place, it had decent beer and sometimes decent, and sometimes not so, local bands. Dancing was to be had.
What else to be had, at least sometimes, were some very attractive ladies, frequently of relaxed morals. Me? I like ladies with relaxed morals, or at least I like them for the evening. Of course, I've been known to strike out, too. But, hey, Pete Rose ought to be in the Hall of Fame with his lifetime .303 batting average, and that means he was out 69.7% of the time.
This Friday night? It seemed like a target rich environment, because, front and center, was a gaggle of girls having plenty of fun.
I got myself a St Pauli Girl dark beer at the bar, then took the usual back-to-the-bar position to survey the room. Mostly my eyes were drawn to the gaggle of girls.
There were seven of them, of a bit wider age range than I'd expect from a group like that. One woman was clearly in her early fifties, certainly pretty enough, but she didn't really do much for me.
Anyway, guys came and went, asking the various ladies to dance, all except for one woman. She was a "chair dancer," if you know what I mean, the kind of woman who is moving her arms and legs to the music, but still seated. Somehow, she didn't seem to get asked, and I wondered why, 'cause she was cute. I wondered if maybe she was married, but it was a bit far, in the generally low lights of the Club, to see whether she was wearing a wedding ring.
Well, two-thirds of my beer was gone, and I decided that if no one else was going to ask her, I would. I'd need to get that close to check for a wedding ring anyway.
One last pull on my beer, and I set the empty down on the bar and went over to the gaggle. Turning things over in my mind, I thought that maybe she had been asked to dance, but just turned everyone down . . . so I just wouldn't ask. I went up to her, simply took her hand, and gently urged her to stand and head out onto the dance floor.
And it worked! The first song was medium paced, but the next one was a slow dance.
"You know, you never really asked me to dance," she said, but she did have a smile on her face.
"I know I didn't, and I did it that way deliberately. I'm Matt. Matt Murdock." I left that hanging, to see if she'd ask me if I was Daredevil, but I guess she didn't read comic books, because the name didn't faze her.
"Lexi, Lexi Brand." she said, which I presumed meant her name.
We enjoyed a couple more dances, and then retreated to her table; it was kind of hard to talk out on the dance floor, at least once the slow dance was over. There was a patch of good light which enabled me to check her left hand. Not only did Lexi not have a wedding ring, but there was no telltale lighter skin tone or slight indentation which gave away the married women who cruised these places looking for some strange. That was a good thing, because the last thing I need is some married chick on the prowl, and there's way too many of them.
Lexi was fun to talk to, laughing at my jokes, but not in that forced way that often happens when two people meet. It turned out that the whole gaggle were nurses at the UK Hospital, and they'd all gotten off at 7:30. They must've planned this night out, because they all had changed into real people clothing, jeans and various different tops. Lexi looked pretty good, casually so, wearing a darker colored t-shirt with a scoop neck. It'd have been a good shirt to show off some cleavage, if she actually had any cleavage.
Which she didn't. Lexi was average height, 5'5" or so, and slender from head to toe, narrow hips, a small but tight looking butt, and I guess somewhere between an A and a B cup. Her blonde hair was showing the beginning of darker roots, and her eyes were light-colored, grey or blue, hard to tell in the low light.
"So, Lexi is short for what?" I asked her.
She smiled and said, "It's short for Lexington."
"Huh?"
"Hey, mom really likes the city, went to school here, and you know how it was, parents were coming up with all of these 'new' names for their kids, and there it happened, I got named Lexington. I hated it through high school, but finally got used to it, and now I don't think it's bad at all.
"And heck, it wasn't even that different, because my brothers were named Boston and Cleveland."
"At least none of them were named Dallas, 'cause I hate the Cowboys."
Lexi laughed at that one. "
Everybody
hates the Cowboys!" I was starting to like this woman more and more.
Lexi's glass was empty, so I bought her another, the white wine she'd been drinking, and another dark beer for myself.
The evening was going about as well as could be expected, in a place where conversation was a bit difficult due to the din that pervaded the atmosphere. Laughs were had, and the occasional light touching on my arm led me to think that yeah, I had a chance with this woman. When her glass was empty again, I called over the waitress to order another one for her, but Lexi demurred. "Hey, I've still got to drive home, and a DUI is really something I don't need."
"No worries, my house is just a two-block walk."
"Well, that's pretty blatant. You figuring that I'm just going to spend the night with you?"
"It wouldn't be the worst idea," I said. It looked like Lexi was the direct type, so I might as well be, too. If I struck out, then I struck out.
"OK, then," she said, this time to the waitress, "I guess I'll have another glass of the white wine."
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So some more drinking and some more dancing was done, as her friends slowly headed out for the evening. I think that some of them had to work day shift on Saturday, but Lexi didn't. One of them, a cute thirty-something brunette, got picked up, and eventually, Lexi was the last of the gaggle still there.
It was almost eleven, and I was ready to head out. Alcohol is great for getting women into bed, but too much of it and the experience in the bedroom isn't as great as it can be. Lexi agreed, and we headed out the door.
The walk to my place was fun enough, with her arm around my waist and mine higher, around he shoulders. At this point, it was a sure thing. My digs didn't hurt my cause in the slightest; I had already told her that I was a lawyer, but I think she was unprepared for the subtle, but nice, brass plaque "Murdock Law Office" beside the door.