(With creative input of my special friend, Katya)
On a Sunday in late spring old Father Jerome announced from the pulpit that the Coast Guard summer contingent would be arriving in Madeline Harbor before the end of the month and would need rooms as usual. Those who had a room to spare would be doing the little resort town a service if they would help put these young men up until the small boat station closed for the season in September. He reminded the congregation that the Coast Guard paid these fellows an allowance for quarters; those who took them in would not be expected to do so for free. Father Jerome liked to make this announcement each year, feeling a kinship from his days as a Navy chaplain who had served with the Coast Guard.
Mildred was intrigued. Certainly not because she was titillated by the notion of taking a healthy young man under her roof she told herself; rather because it would be an exemplary public service and be responsive to the pastor.
Mildred Rikkonen was the epitome, she thought, of moral rectitude and religious devotion. She held her social, fraternal and parish layperson positions, present, former and future by divine right. She did not say as much publicly but was utterly certain in her soul that it was so. After all, she thought, I am a natural leader, a devout daughter of the church and socially prominent. Hadn't she been spouse of her late husband, an important executive in government? Hadn't he been, until his untimely death, head for more than 20 years of the second largest fish hatchery in the state?
What others might have mistaken for overbearing bossiness, Mildred saw as determination and decisiveness born of a superior mind and will. What others might have mistaken for haughtiness and condescension, Mildred saw as her due by virtue of her social position. What others saw as ostentatious holier-than-thou posturing Mildred knew in her heart to be a pious example for others.
By dint of relentless browbeating, by a certain ruthlessness and by indifference to and of others she was now or had been head of the altar society, a Eucharistic minister, president of the parish council, president of the VFW ladies auxiliary, secretary-treasurer of the Newcomers as well as director of the local duplicate bridge club and annual event coordinator of the Red Hat Society, first VP of the Daughters of the American Revolution and god knows what else.
Altogether Mildred could be seen correctly as a self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others; in other words she was a prig.
Mildred was a formidable woman. To see her in the street was not unlike watching the passage of the Queen Mary, slicing through the North Atlantic. In full accoutrement she went out in girdled security (open gusset), voluminous rayon panties, with her necessarily commodious Playtex 18 hour bra supporting a 40 triple D bosom, gartered nylons on still shapely legs which she displayed to advantage with dresses hemmed just below the knee.
Mildred was not the statuesque beauty she had once been but at 60 years old was matronly with broad hips on a big-boned frame and soft, smooth unblemished skin. She was not beautiful but neither was she plain.
Menopause had come and gone for Mildred leaving in its wake a woman whose healthy sexual appetite she found heightened rather than diminished. She regretted Hi (for Hiemo) Rikkonen's demise but was grateful that he had not lingered, dropping dead one day two years earlier while mowing the lawn. At the same time she was increasingly agitated by the absence of regular, if not extraordinary, sexual servicing since becoming a widow. In the decade before his death, Hi seldom initiated sex with Mildred, but if she applied herself, she could arouse him sufficiently to give her a sexual sandwich even if not a banquet. In her devout mind Mildred put her restlessness and agitation down to the loss of Hi and not merely to the loss of church sanctified sex. She would hardly admit to herself that she liked sex, that she enjoyed sex and that she wanted a lot of sex.
Kenneth
So it was that young Kenneth, aged 20, arrived at Mildred's doorstep. He was a decent enough looking chap, thank goodness, she thought, and he seemed respectful of her.
He was a relatively small young man, not nearly as tall or heavy as her Finnish heritage late husband had been. He was an inch or two shorter than Mildred was at 5'10". But he was trim and sturdy looking.
She showed him his room and offered board as well as room if he wanted and he did. She explained the house rules; no smoking, no girls, and dinner time, the only meal he requested. He could have a drink or a beer or two, but drunkenness was not acceptable. There was but one bathroom which he could use in the morning before he went to work at 7 a.m. Since the Coast Guard secured for the day, save watch standers, at 3:30 p.m., she would serve dinner at 5, giving Kenneth time to change out of his uniform and shower.
This arrangement worked satisfactorily until one morning when Mildred was awakened by her bladder and, wearing only a sheer summer nightie, quickly arose and headed for the bathroom. She was not yet accustomed to his presence; indeed she was oblivious to Kenneth until, with consternation and dismay, she heard the shower running.
She was faced with the irksome choice between her bladder's imperative and her keen sense of ladylike decorum. Her bladder won.
She rapped sharply on the bathroom door.
"Kenneth, young man, I must use the facilities at once." She called this out in a rather imperious voice.
"No problem," Kenneth answered immediately. "If ya gotta go, ya gotta go."
Mildred hurried into the bathroom, hitching up her nightie as she entered and almost sat on the bowl before rather angrily realizing that he had left the seat up. Holding her nightie at her waist Mildred banged the seat down, turned, ensconced herself, let down her water in a copious, noisy splash and looked up to see Kenneth watching her with the shower curtain pulled aside to reveal his grinning face.
"Oh," Mildred cried, "Don't look!"
But Kenneth had looked and Mildred's broad derriere with her ample pussy had been momentarily displayed to his stimulated gaze as she bent and irritably banged down the toilet seat. Moreover he now clearly was enjoying watching her pee.
"Sorry," he said, "but I heard the bang and wanted to make sure you were alright."