My wife returned from the doctor looking a little shaken. She'd only gone to check out a sore throat that didn't seem to go away, but for a second as I stopped loading the dishwasher I started to get worried.
"How'd it go? You going to be okay?"
"Yeah. He says it's just bad allergies," she said, a little too abruptly. She started to leave the kitchen, then kind of lingered, as if she had something to tell me.
"What is it then?" I asked, now giving her my full attention.
"Nothing really. It just...got a little weird with him during the exam."
"Dr. Hollon? Weird how?" As our GP ever since we've lived in this town, he was now in his late-40's like us and almost a kind of friend. Both of our teenaged daughters played on the same field hockey team. I talk to him sometimes at practice, and Nicolette has good rapport with his wife.
"During the exam...he kind of...got a little sexual," she said. I could tell by her not making eye contact she seemed to feel a little ashamed about what ever happened.
"Sexual? Did he try something!" Of course I was concerned, but at the same time a little turned on. Okay, a lot turned on. There's something about a beautiful and usually self-assured woman like my wife in the submissive position as a patient that for some time has been a real turn on for me. I think it goes back to when I was kid, "playing doctor" with my older and very attractive female cousin. Recently I'd actually discovered a porn category with such scenarios, which I instantly associated with what she was telling me.
"He didn't exactly 'try' something, she replied, "but at certain moments during my exam it's like he stopped being just a doctor examining a patient. I could tell he was also, you know, a man...wanting sex with me."
"I just can't buy it." I replied. "I mean, you know his wife, Sheila, and the two of us talk now and then outside his office, at the field hockey games. I can't imagine him risking that kind of trouble. But then again, you are incredibly attractive."
"Stop it," she said, still a little shaken up, but at least glad I was paying attention.
"What exactly did he do?"
"Well," she continued, "it started off with him just talking to me, you know, about my sore throat. That was normal enough I guess, but even then, as I was telling him about it, how I had no other symptoms, how it got worse at night, he sort of kept looking me up and down."
"Well isn't that normal? I mean, you are there to get examined."
"Robert, a woman knows when a guy's into her. He checked me out the way you do."
"Well, you did go in there looking ravishingly beautiful, with that pink lipstick on and your blouse showing a little cleavage. For a conservative woman like you, that's pretty racy, don't you think?"
"Ugh!" She said, opening up the fridge to get a can of seltzer. "I knew you'd somehow make this about me looking hot, for your stupid fantasies. So now it's my fault, right?"
"I'm not saying that at all," I replied. "I'm just acknowledging that, yes, he is a man, exactly your age, and you are a smoking hot field hockey mom."