I loved to go out and have fun with my friends and they seemed to feel the same way about me. Most of my friends were girls but I did have some male friends. We would hang out at the local neighborhood bars during the week and hit the clubs on the weekends. I would always save a good part of my paycheck every week to go out with my friends and buy a new outfit for Saturday night. I then would have new clothes for work and could mix and match and have a whole new look if I couldn't afford to buy one that week. I lived home and gave my parents money for rent and food as well. I paid my own bills, insurance, telephone, etc. they let me use the washer and dryer so I wouldn't have to go to the laundromat and I paid the quarterly water bill. I found out it later years that all the monies I gave them they had put into a savings account for me so when I was 40 they threw me surprise party with my friends and paid for the entire party and presented me with a nice bank account that they told me they did so if and when I needed money, I would have some to fall back on. They showed me all the deposits made from the money I gave them every week and it was all there including interest.
I was working for a small company as a girl Friday and I loved it. My bosses were top notch and treated me really good. I got a raise twice a year and a birthday gift, a turkey and trimmings gift certificate as well as a very generous Christmas bonus which was usually a month's salary and a small gift of a pair of earrings or a purse that I knew that their wives had a hand in picking them out because of the wonderful and very expensive taste.
I got along very well with everyone in the office and in our warehouse/factory. Most of the employees were men - there were 2 other women in the warehouse and 2 in the office - the 2 in the office were getting close to retirement and they were showing me their jobs as I would be taking over for them within the next year or 2.
One man in the warehouse John, this huge teddy bear of a black man and hit it off exceptionally well. He and I had lunches together and talked as he had daughters my age 20 and 22.
One particular Monday morning I came into work in a very down mood. John picked up on my mood right away and wanted to know what was wrong and I told him that I would talk to him at lunch. My weekend sucked. Went out to the bar Friday night with friends and some of them left with guys they picked up and I was left with one of our male friends who is a great guy but not my type for a boyfriend. Saturday night at the club, one of my friends decided that she wanted to have more fun so she drank and decided to flirt with all the guys in the band and one took her to a motel and she was in her glory.
I had had enough of the weekend and then Sunday came and a friend from school had be in town and called me to meet her for drinks and she end up hooking up with some guy and asking if I wouldn't mind if we picked up the following month when she was back in town because "he was a hot subject".
I went home and my parents knew something was wrong but I'm not about to tell them about all my girlfriends getting laid and sucking some dick.
We had a nice dinner that mom prepared of pasta salad and garlic bread. I helped as I always did with the clean up and dishes and she wanted to know if I wanted to talk and I told her that I didn't . Mom was not the one to talk to about sex as she was on the shy side on that subject.
I read the newspaper before I turned in and was actually looking forward to going to work and the busy week we had ahead with inventory and working late with John in the warehouse and maybe 1 or 2 other guys. He was such a nice man - very attractive for a man of 52 and always looked after me. We had a guy in the warehouse try to hit on me and he made sure he didn't bother me anymore and eventually the guy was fired because he screwed around too much and messed up on some shipments and deliveries and my bosses didn't tolerate that.
I promised John on Friday that I would treat us to lunch of my homemade chicken salad sandwiches, German potato salad and homemade lemonade/ice tea combo with mint. He loved it when made it once for myself forgetting I was being taken out for lunch and I offered it to him.
I got all the goodies ready fresh that morning - I got up extra early and last night I brewed the tea and mint leaves and made the lemonade.
He came up to the office and told me that it looked as if I needed to talk really bad so he said we would go to a local park and picnic our lunch.