(Author's Note: All rights reserved. No sex with persons 18 or less. This is not a wimpy cuck or BTB story although one wife gets a second-degree burn.)
The SUV
Joey
We were five couples with children: Manuel and Maria had six; Mark and Trish had five; Both Missy and I, and Jake and Babs had four, and Sammy and Ellie had three. Manuel and Maria had the oldest child, Elena, at fifteen; Sammy and Ellie had the youngest child, Sammy, Jr., at two.
Almost every Saturday we would do something as a group, even if it was just a backyard barbeque. Occasionally, we'd caravan an overnight trip. We always had ready and willing babysitters if a couple wanted to have a night out, or if we all wanted to have an adults only night, we'd pool our resources. There were eight houses on our cul-de-sac, the other residents were a much older couple whose kids had long ago left the nest, and a younger couple who didn't have any children and had their own circle of friends. The eighth house was a rental, and the occupants seemed to change two or three times a year.
I was a beginning homebuilder, serving as both salesperson and subcontractor supervisor. With four kids, Missy was a stay-at-home mom, but occasionally helped out with the bookkeeping or with home walk-throughs. I thought our life was great, and it wasn't until things started happening to tilt our wagon that it finally went off the tracks.
The first thing was that after dinner, Missy wanted to talk. She began with, "Joey, the girls and I need a night out."
I asked, "What do you mean, sweetheart?"
She explained, "I mean a girls' night out, where the five of us can go clubbing and dancing on our own. You guys can babysit and play poker or watch football or whatever you want to do. If you don't want to babysit, everyone can chip in to pay for it."
I inquired, "When were you thinking of having this girls' night out?"
She replied, "We decided we would like to go out every Friday night, starting this Friday."
I commented, reluctantly, "We haven't decided anything!"
She calmly responded, "I meant that we girls decided that's what we wanted to do. If there's a problem we can change the plan."
I suggested, "Missy, I think this is a big deal. I'm not saying no, but maybe all ten adults need to get together and talk about it. Missy, I love you. The idea of a girls' night out isn't necessarily bad. I just don't like you being away from me and your children one out of every seven nights."
She didn't seem happy with that, but said, "Let me get back to the other girls. Maybe that's what we'll do. I can see that this Friday night might be too soon."
I answered, "Probably not if it was a one-off, but we're talking about establishing a tradition here. That's what I'm uncomfortable with."
She seemed reasonable, "Point taken. Let me get back with the girls, and all of us can decide the next step."
I assumed that all of us meant both girls and guys. It turned out that I was not the only husband with reservations, so we got a two high school senior girls plus Elena, which gave us a three-girl team of babysitters to sit all twenty-two kids at our house, while the adults had our big confab at Sammy and Ellie's house.
Missy
I couldn't see what the fucking bid deal was all about. The five of us had all been moms at least three times; if we wanted to kick up our heels with some dancing, drinking, and even a little flirting, we had earned it. At least all of our husbands weren't being hard asses like Joey. Even after four children, I had kept my looks, and I wanted to have some excitement before I was old and gray. I had joined in the early struggles of Joey getting his business of the ground; I was ready for my pay-off.
The meeting went fairly well. We managed to get all the husbands on board by allowing them to set some conditions. None of the conditions were that serious: No going to private places like hotel rooms or apartments; no exceptions to being home at a reasonable hour; no parking lot rendezvouses with others than our husband; and everybody going home together with rotating designated drivers.