Our friend Maggie 01
They say that some things never change and it looks like I fit into one of those things. Hey folks, I'm Jake Williams and I'm home from Coastal for the summer, just like the last two summers. But that's not what hasn't changed. What seems to be the same is how I stroll over to the neighbors, Mrs. Mills, and pick up sticks and fallen branches from her yard. Something I have been doing for years. It was natural for me to get out of bed, watch a little TV and then just walk over there and clean things up a bit. Neither of us considered it a job, but she would throw me a few slices of cheese for my efforts. Not the mention the ice tea and sandwiches afterwards that capped off the day.
And now that I'm so much older and much more mature, LOL, 21, I'm upping my game and bringing her a few things from her grocery list too. I mean, it makes me look good and her standard items are easy to remember. Milk with the blue cap, yogurt with the Raspberries on the front, coffee with the ruggedly handsome bearded man on the label and bread as long as my arm. I mean, that makes me a hero, right?
And that worked out almost perfect, all except for one item. It seems that she switched over to decaf coffee on her 60th birthday, but she at least smiled when she mentioned that to me. I acknowledged her beverage choice change and went about picking up her yard. And might I add that her yard seems to get bigger every year and by that, I mean this seemed to be more fun when I was a teenager. But, it's our thing, so I carried on.
After a while she called me in to cool off with an ice tea and for one of her sandwiches. Two other things that haven't seemed to change is how she managed to win the war against 60 years of life and maintain a shapely ass and how I would sit at her kitchen table and watch it wiggle as she made my sandwich. And on it went for three June weekends.
I switched things up a little for the last Saturday in June. LOL, I splurged on her. I mean, she has been the older woman in my life for a long time, even though she never knew that and I wanted to do something special. As I was picking up her grocery items, I found a Keurig Mini on sale and purchased it for her. I mean, living alone basically means a full pot of coffee that sits on the heating element and burns and it just gets nasty, so a single brew system is the way to go for a single lady, right? And of course, I bought her the ruggedly handsome bearded man in decaf K-Cups and of course, a small box of the ruggedly handsome bearded man coffee K-Cups in deep roast bold for me.
"What's this Jake? Is this a computer tablet or one of those fancy e-phones?"
"LOL, no Mrs. Mills. It's a Keurig single brew coffee maker. You're going to love it."
"Glenda."
"Alright. Here, Glenda, let me show you how it works. You're supposed to cycle it once anyways to wash out any manufacturing oils and stuff, so we can make a test brew. Are you ready?"
"Ah, brew away, but don't go to fast. I'm getting to be as old as dirt, you know."
"That's cute. Look, it's really easy and I promise you that the only thing that will make you mad is that I bought the mini, which means you'll have to add water to the tank a lot. OK, here we go. Fill this tank with water, lift this lid and insert a K-Cup, close the led and push the brew button. See, it's that easy and it brews the same tasting coffee, cup after cup. No more burnt coffee from sitting on the burner all morning. There, the clean out brew is completed and it's ready to go for the next cup. So???"
"Hah, you're a tricky young man, aren't you, Jake? Is there where I'm supposed to make you a cup of coffee and a sandwich?"
"Well, Glenda, they say some things never change. Deep roast, please."
"Oh, well, if some things never change, does that mean you're going to dry hump me while you lean over me and check on the progress of you sandwich? And by the way, my friend Maggie says I'm supposed to apologize to you for wearing shapewear over the last two summers. My friend Maggie is convinced that you never got the full effect of your little game because shapewear is so unforgiving."
"Well, the truth is that your friend Maggie isn't totally wrong, but it was thrilling for me every time, so you can tell your friend Maggie that your forbidden younger man still managed to go home with a smile of his face. However, is shapewear something you still wear these days?"
"Well, yes, but it's better for your eyes. Things would different around my middle if I didn't. However, I told my friend Maggie that I wanted this summer to be different and my friend Maggie said I might try letting you catch me in my nightie later in the evening, you know, while I get a breath of fresh evening air about 10:15 pm on the back deck, you know, in case that is something you might want to know."
