Hello, my name's Betty. I'm a housewife and I'll admit to being of a 'certain age'. The highlight of my day was a trip to the shops. If the weather was clement I'd walk the mile each way. I enjoyed the walk and it kept me fit and slim. For nobody's benefit but my own. If it was less clement I'd take the bus and if I had lots of shopping I'd take the car. The highlight of my nights was hearing my husband snoring in bed beside me. When he was in bed beside me. About eighteen months ago he was promoted and he now spends more time away than he does at home which he seems to enjoy and I wasn't so happy about.
I picked up the 50 Shades trilogy in the charity shop shortly after his promotion and had a great time reading them. I let my imagination run wild, without any worries that he might pop home from work early and catch me. Once I had read them I thought I'd try 'googling' erotic stories and see what comes up. Well a surprising amount came up and I've been enjoying the stories ever since.
I'd like to tell you about what happened one Thursday while I was in the Building Society. It's probably a bit tame by comparison with some of the stories I have enjoyed but... well here goes.
It was along queue and only three tellers working. I was passing the time trying to watch the news on a large wall mounted TV screen. The sub-titles were way behind the action on screen making it difficult to make sense of anything.
"Y'know, I've been coming into this building society for over twenty years and I cannot remember a single time when I haven't had to queue for hours."
The friendly voice relieved me of the tedium of watching the pointless news broadcast. He was a well dressed gentleman with white hair that looked as if it would never respond to a good comb or stiff brush, a white beard, the most amazing blue eyes and a friendly, open smile.
"Tell me about it," I agreed. "they've been cost cutting for years but I never see any benefit in my savings interest rates."
We chatted amiably, as you do with strangers sharing the tedium of waiting and slowly shuffled forward as required. He was one place ahead of me in the queue. Then two of the tellers disappeared! By the time the weather, politics and the problems in Calais had been covered in some detail he reached the head of the queue.
"Look," he said, "why don't you go first. I'm in no hurry to go home. The place is empty so I'm better off standing in a queue and talking to people."
"I'm in no hurry either." I told him, "My husband went to the Far East for a week two weeks ago and this morning I got an email saying he would be another ten days. My house is empty too."
He was called to 'cashier No.2, please'. Three more had returned from their smoking break and I was quickly summoned to 'cashier No. 3'. We finished together.
"D'you fancy a cup of tea and a piece of cake or something?" he asked as he held the street door open for me.
I smiled, "That would be nice, thank you. The charity shop cafe?" I replied happily.
He smiled and held out his arm. "Take my arm. If you see anybody you know just tell them I'm a doddery old fool who needs a cup of sweet tea and a piece of cake to get my sugar levels up!" he has a lovely grin.
Being the perfect gent he let me go up the stairs first. I reached the halfway landing and turned. He was still at the bottom looking up. "Are you alright?" I asked worriedly.
"I'm fine," he replied, "I feel ten years younger, would you mind coming down and walking up again? I might feel twenty years younger then."
"You old rogue!" I called down to him and waited until he joined me then went up the last short flight. I turned at the top and watched the grin spread over his face.