It's been quite awhile since I have written anything. In the last year and a half everything in my world sort of went all to hell.
For one thing, when my wife Debra's Mother passed away the inheritance was very large. That was a surprise to me, Debra and I were together over a decade and I really only had a partial clue.
With the property added in, the estate was millions.
Then Debra went back there to deal with it all. Next she insisted that I move there also, and there is no way in hell that was going to happen.
At an impasse, it was time to move on, not exactly something a 76 year old man wants to do.
Just a few months passed, our separation was final, then I found out far too late to do anything at all about it, that Debra caught that COVID disease... and.. died.
That was a shock, and it has taken me a long time to get past it. My 77th birthday came and went, about all I have done is walk down to the waterfront cafe and have some Coffee, shoot the shit with the fishermen.
I am lucky, I have some money, enough I will have no concerns the rest of my life. That is not even the issue, the issue is my wife is gone and I am alone.
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I did have a roommate, her name is Kate. I wrote about her, she is a sweetie and is now a nurse at the hospital over on the coast. Handy to have around because she just happened to be a bit naughty and a bit willing so we had some fun now and then.
I might be old but everything still works just fine and I make the claim that I look nowhere near my age. So when my now 30 something sexy roommate reaches down and does a happy ending after giving a brisk rubdown, it's OK. She always told me she likes to do that for guys.
But of course Kate met some guy, I met him too and he is way better than a couple of duds she went out with before. He runs an auto repair shop, specializes in electronic and computer issues. Kate moved in with him, which left me with no one.
Around this town there are no shortages of overweight white haired old ladies.
In a pinch that is fine but without fail, bed one of those and they become attached to my front door. My neighbor Walt Baker, he lives about 4 houses down, I mow his lawn and several others in the Summer for the hell of it, something to do and I have a huge riding mower.
My own lawn I could do with scissors, so, like I said, something to do. Now when I get down to Walt's house, there is a side strip and pretty good back yard. So, when I looked up and there was Terry, his naked wife standing in the window looking at me, I was thinking it was an accident. Then I thought maybe with a reflection she could not see me? But the mower, it is not quiet, so unless she was deaf, she knew I was there.
Two weeks later, same thing. Just as I was finishing up, she came out with a glass of some pink lemonade.
Yep, naked.
"I hope you don't mind, I prefer to be nude around the house." Big smile on her face.
Next she asked me to come in, I was getting what was going on and I don't do other guy's wives, way it is. Not that Terry was bad looking, she actually was very good looking but I just do not do other guy's wives.
Too much trouble.
All I had was to go in my bathroom and whack off, nothing else left for me.
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Of course by Fall this year, our world was going to hell in a handbasket. Everywhere we look, people wearing masks, thousands and thousands of people sick, some dying. Of course I knew, after all, my ex wife died of the damn stuff.
I have no idea why it didn't get me at the same time.
Only two ways to approach the situation. Huddle down at home, and go outside fearful of everyone and everything only when there is no other choice..?
Or, say fuck it, and do whatever I want.
What I needed was a woman around, someone to share my life and my on the large size house with, someone I could trust, and of course they had to be checked so they are disease free.
Me.. 77. Good luck with that, right? What are the odds of finding another Kate for a roommate, anyway. Slim and none seemed to fit right there.
So. I ran an ad. Yeah, I know. What kind of ad can an old coot like me run to find a roommate that is nice looking, friendly, easy to get along with, willing and on the frisky side?
That one person I knew that fit that bill is my late wife Debra, and Kate, a gal that Debra moved in with us when we were still together to help through nursing school.
I placed the ad in a certain advertisers I know of that accepts some of the more.. "liberal" type ads. Waste of time to post it in the local paper, that much I knew already.
I didn't expect much in the way of any response, I got 187 of them the first week! All fairly close, too.
About half of them were sounding like ladies of the evening, quite a few had a screw or too not all that snug, about the same as one might find when trying to date.
Then! I got the most classic response that I could have ever gotten.
"Hello, my wife and I saw your ad and thought we would take a chance. I am unemployed and as you know, finding work is impossible right now. From your ad, it appears you are looking for a female for occasional personal attention in exchange for sharing your home? We are really in a financial bind so would like to do that, and my wife and I would be quite pleased to share with you."
It was signed as Thomas and Karen, I checked their location and it was barely 10 miles down the coast. The photo was of a nice looking couple, in shape and Karen was strikingly pretty.
Still, while their letter did give hints, I was not sure exactly what the deal was. I set that letter aside, went through the rest. Nothing there that looked very good, I picked up that odd response, curious.