There's more at the record fair than vinyl!
Chapter 1
My wife and I were out having dinner like we always do on Thursday night. We picked a trendy place called "District 12" on the west side of Cincinnati in an area called Wyoming. I think every up-and-coming college grad in Cincinnati was there. It felt like a steady stream of cock hounds was passing by our table to get a look at Mary, my wife.
I'm used to dudes staring at her when we are out on a date or just drinking at a local watering hole. Men stare at my wife because of her natural attributes. She is a very voluptuous and curvy woman that happens to be pretty to. So she draws a lot of attention from the stud crowd and Mary does a good job ignoring all the testosterone filled men that gawk at her.
Tonight was like most Thursday nights when my wife remembered a posting on Falsebook that I may be interested in. After taking her phone from her purse Mary began to thumb through her Falsebook feed to find the posting she saw earlier in the day. After tapping her phone she gave it to me to read the posting on the screen. It was awesome! It was an advertisement for a record fair being held at the Lebanon Ohio National Guard Armory on Saturday. I am an avid record collector of mostly jazz, but I do buy other genres of music on occasion, and I want to go!
The advert promised more than 100 vendors selling and swapping vinyl of all types along with selling vinyl accessories. We haven't been to a record show in more than a year and this one sounds massive, so we're going! My wife has a couple titles that she wants to look for, and I have several that I want for my collection. So it was settled we are going to the record show Saturday!
I mapped out our day trip, and it should take an hour to get to Lebanon from our house. Most of the time these events draw record geeks and people who are on the lookout for high dollar LP's. It was a pleasant drive just taking our time and listening to the radio and chatting about this and that. My pleasant drive turned into an "Oh crap" moment when we pulled into the parking lot and the car park was full! There are a lot of record nerds at the fair today. I was hoping the show didn't start out "F'd up" like the parking situation, but a crowd may be a good thing indicating the show is full of vendors and buyers.
When we entered the venue it was packed with people and vendor booths. We started browsing at the 1
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booth to our left and continued along the wall going from vendor to vendor browsing for a treasure. I found mono copies of a few Beatles albums that I've been on the hunt for and my wife found some old Pink Floyd albums that were in near mint condition. It was difficult to look because so many people were on the prowl for buried treasure among the stacks of vinyl. If you don't mind being elbow to elbow with hundreds of record geeks all looking for a "Holy Grail" then the show is a good time! There is an advantage to bringing a good-looking woman with you because the other dudes will give way to a pretty girl and let her finger through the rows of albums.
We stopped browsing for a little while and bought some food and drinks for lunch and talk about our finds. It's funny watching the other men as they gawk at Mary as she eats a hot dog. I see her playing it up as she puts the dog in her mouth to bite a piece off and wipe the mustard from her lips. Mary was being naughty, and I admit that I like to watch her do stuff like that. I was snickering to myself that it is funny to watch men who are watching her eat a weeny in public. This is probably the biggest thrill that most of the other record geeks will have for months on end as they watch my wife suck down a sausage in public. I had to ask Mary to cool it down before a line forms in the men's room! You had to be there to appreciate how funny it was to see the men whisper to each other as they pass our table.
The sausage show was over, and we continued to look for anything of interest in the piles of albums at each booth. The crowd was thinning down a little because the early birds were finishing up for the day and leaving for home which means easier browsing for Mary and I.
We came upon a booth that wasn't crowded and started thumbing through the neatly stacked records.
My head was down, and I was concentrating on the task at hand when I heard a voice with a heavy Australian accent say, "I haven't seen a necklace like that in a long while! It looks very nice on you."
That's when I heard my wife say "Thank You."
I wasn't paying too much attention, but when I heard my wife answer the Australian voice it snapped my head up to look at whose talking to my wife. Before my eyes was an Australian surfer dude, tanned and a little scruffy, doing his best to come on to my spouse. I glanced at her neck and damn if Mary wasn't wearing her "Hotwife" necklace. I guess it shouldn't be a surprise to me that some stud is smooth talking my woman.
Mary wasn't dressed seductively today. Wearing jeans and a button down white shirt wasn't screaming out "Hotwife on the prowl!" However, her jewelry did, and I didn't notice it this morning when we left for the record show. An "Italian Horn necklace" was hidden in plain sight mixed in with the other necklaces that Mary is wearing.
The silver tongued surfer stuck his hand out and introduced himself to my wife, "Hi, I'm Gavin, and you are?"
With a devilish grin on her face my wife responded, "I'm Mary and this is my husband Michael."
They shook hands then he extended his hand to me and said, "Good to meet you mate. I'm Gavin and if there is anything that you are looking for, no matter how unusual, let me know, I'm here to help!" He seemed nice enough and my wife was already fascinated by the surfer dude in front of us, so I shook his hand and said, "I'm Michael, her husband, nice to meet you Gavin."
"I couldn't help but notice your wife's necklace. It's unusual to see a nice piece like that around these parts. I think we may belong to the same club!"
Mary quickly responded to him, "I think we do!"
They are making eye contact and smiling and there was no doubt in my mind they are attracted to each other. I can feel the electricity between them already. I interrupted the silence by asking Gavin where the jazz LP's are. I already knew the answer, but I felt that I needed to break the sexual tension in the air before it got out of hand, and she got on her knees to blow him in front of an audience. All of this was happening before my eyes like I wasn't there! It seemed to take forever, but they finally stopped the staring contest and came back to earth.
Gavin said, "Is there anything that I can help you with?"
And I answered, "I'm just looking around, but my wife may have something specific in mind."
Gavin was smiling and when he looked back at my wife he asked her if there was anything that he could help her with. The sexual innuendo was dripping off of every word they spoke, and I have to admit that it was exciting to see Mary back in action and enjoying herself as she flirted with the Australian dude.