My Educator
This is a little story that was suggested to me by a friend. It is all fiction and only exists in the recesses of my dirty old man mind. I am sure there will be some errors in this but understand I don't have many letters after my name so if you complain it isn't like I will ever get any better. And for the most part I write to keep my mind busy and give me something to do. If you like it great, I thank you very much. Oh yeah, I guess I should say I don't write stories to cause people to want to masturbate, although this will have some sex in it, I write it because it keeps me out of trouble. If you don't like it because of the subject matter, well remember I didn't make you read it.
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When I was a kid (actually about 19) I was attending college and working at the same time which made things sort of hard on me as I really didn't like school or working the job I had.
I graduated from high school and started work the very next day. I was never a great student but in the 60's going to school was the thing to do so I enrolled in college.
And other than weekends (which I spent doing homework) I didn't have time to do anything, so my social life was crap.
I was 19 and not handsome although I never had much problem getting girlfriends. I had been with a couple of girls. And was experienced as any boy in the 60's. Remember this was a different time and a different way of life. It was before the sexual revolution. When I started high school girls may show about an inch of skin between the hem of their skirts and the top of their bobby sox. But skirts were creeping higher and higher, and I loved it. I really wasn't into older women, but I did look at all women.
I had an old car and during that time gas was affordable and so I really didn't have much money problems as I was still living at home and my parents weren't charging me room and board although I gave them money every month. I was just a big old kid.
I was working probably making a little more than minimum wage but to be honest I didn't have to work hard at all. I worked in the mail room of a pretty decent sized corporation.
In the state I lived in, if you were 18 you could drink low alcohol content beer. And I did. My parents did not drink or smoke, so I was sort of the black sheep of the family because I did both.
I wasn't much of a student and unless I really enjoyed a class, and my grades were nothing to write home about.
Anyway, I was taking three college courses at a four-year college as this is before I ever heard of a Community College. The Semester in question I took English 102, Psychology, and Algebra. I was taking all my classes in the evening.
I really hated the English class as because it was in the evening, and I was the youngest one in the class. It was made up of businessmen, housewifes, and women who were what I would call then middle aged. I learned that more than one of the businessmen had secretaries that would write their papers for them, and the housewives had more time to write their papers then I did. I was not doing well in this class at all.
Algebra I was doing okay in, but I knew that at best I would get a "C" in the course. This was before calculators, and we had to work out the problems assigned and put them on paper step by step. Some of the problems would go on for pages and pages.
The class I did best in, however, was psychology. The concepts seemed to come very easy for me and it all seemed so logical. It seemed that most of the students in my class were my age and they just didn't seem able to grasp the concepts. Our instructor was a Miss Cotlen. She was a clinical psychologist and worked at a mental health facility and was teaching part time. Miss Cotlen had been out of college for several years and although she was not beautiful, she wasn't bad in a "middle age" sort of way. She was a little on the heavy side and we got along very well. I always studied for her class, so I knew the answers to most of the questions she asked because she taught from the book, and I always read the assignment.
Psychology was my last class of the evening and sometimes I would stay after class and we would talk about psychology, the concepts, and the practical applications.
On occasion we would talk about other things and I learned that she was single. Her parents live in a different state. She worked at a long-term facility specializing in mentally challenged people who have been institutionalized as children and had no real families. Her job was primarily to set up training plans for her clients so that they could do things for themselves.
She learned I was single, went to school three days a week. Had a full time job, and didn't have much time for anything.
We seemed to get along well. I think she was lonesome for someone she could just talk to. And I sort of felt the same way. It was good living with the family but there are a lot of things you don't talk to your family about.
We were nearing the end of the semester when Miss Cotlen asked me one evening if I could stay after class. When everyone left the classroom she said. "There is a big psychology conference in a large town about a hundred miles away. And I was wondering if you would like to attend."
Well, being the big dumb kid, I was I said, "I would really like to Miss Cotlen but I am sure I can't afford it, and then I would have to stay there somewhere and I don't know anyone in that town so I would have to get a hotel room so as much as I would like to attend, I just can't afford it."
Miss Cotlen looked at me and said "well, I can sneak you into the conference with me, you can ride down with me and you can share my room with me." At that point she reached over and put her hand on my arm.
Okay, I may be young and stupid, but I sort of felt that my teacher was coming on to me. And then I was afraid I was reading something into her statement that wasn't there. I told her that I would think about it and let her know. She then gave me her phone number so I could call her as soon as I had made a decision. I said "Miss Cotlen, I really appreciate you thinking about me for this conference. I hope that I can go and can make you proud that you are helping me."
She said, "I am sure I will be proud that I am asking you, and by the way when we are not in class you can call me Ann."
I said, "well thank you again Ann and I will call you in the next day or so."
I left the classroom and headed home. My head was swimming and I thought that if there is any way I was going to go. I had no interest in being a psychologist, but this would not look bad on a resume and maybe I would get a better grade.
I knew that I would have to take a day or two off work. I had already accumulated some vacation time so that would not be a big deal. But I wanted to see what my parents said as I was still living at home.
I got home and my parents were in the living room so I approached them and told them about the offer. I did neglect to mention that Miss Cotlen wanted me to stay in her room with her. They both thought that it would be a great learning experience and that I should take my teacher up on it if I could. They didn't ask where I would stay and I didn't offer. They didn't know anything about my finances and I didn't offer.
I went into my room and my younger brother looked at me and said, "What does she look like,are you gonna get some from her."
I looked at him and said, "Well Dean, I don't have a clue. And she is not bad looking, but she is a lot older than I am."
He just said, "Go for it."
I called my teacher.
"Hi could I speak to Ann please,"