Eddie didn't usually pay much attention to the supermarket tabloids; you know--the ones that claim that Elvis is still alive and living on Mars with a family of space aliens. Yet today's headline was enough to catch the eye of any red-blooded American male: countless women throughout the city of Atlanta were stopping men on the street and offering to give them blowjobs right then and there.
A few days later, the local newspaper reported the same thing. For one week in September, women throughout Atlanta had been offering blowjobs to men on the street. The article dismissed it as some sort of college prank during rush week at Georgia Tech. Yet one fact that the article glossed over was that it was being done by women from all walks of life, not just college coeds.
The thrill died down for a while, then the same thing started happening again a few months later in cities throughout the USA: Cambridge, MA; Ithaca, NY; Pasadena, CA; Princeton, NJ; and Rennsselear, NY.
As time went on, the activity seemed to be becoming a national craze. Arrests for public indecency flooded the courts. But, if anything, the behavior was spreading.
It was a typical Wednesday afternoon searching for a programming bug in a C++ program with some co-workers at his terminal in one of hundreds of identical cubicles in the offices of Lotsatech.
The phenomena hadn't reached the Chicago suburbs, and Eddie had been thinking idly of taking a couple of days off some upcoming weekend to take a brief vacation to one of those cities in New York, New Jersey or California, just to see what the fuss was all about, you understand.
Cindy pointed at the glowing code on his terminal, "There! I see it! You coded _for (i=0; i<10; i++);_ when you should have coded _for (i=0; i<100; i++);_.
"Yeah! Carol added. That sure looks like that would cause our bug!"
"Okay!" Eddie said, and made the change, and typed _make_ for the umpteenth time.
Eddie's stomach growled just then. Looking at his watch it was about ten minutes to noon. Almost time for lunch, and get away from C++ code for an hour.
Eddie glanced back at the computer screen as the compile finished. "Ready to try again?" he said.
He turned to face the women who were giving him the strangest look.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"Can I give you a blowjob, Eddie?" Carol asked in a hushed voice, then looked nervously around.
Eddie gasped and sputtered. "What?"
"No!" Cindy said and looked around nervously too. "Let me give you one, Eddie! Please!"
"Hey!" Carol said a little urgently. "I asked first!"
It was one thing to fantasize about going off in search of the elusive blowjob. It was quite another to be offered blowjobs by two female co-workers in your cubicle at work in the middle of the afternoon.
"I, uhm, don't think so," he stammered. "I mean, it's not a good idea. Not here at work."
"We can go into an empty conference room!" Carol urged. "Please!"
"Me too!" Cindy added with equal urgency. "Please, Eddie! I'd really love to suck on your cock!"
Eddie got firm. "Some other time. You know the rules about sexual harassment. I really don't want to get fired!"
The girls rushed out of Eddie's cube in a huff and disappeared in the maze of cubicles.
Eddie headed down to the cafeteria for lunch. While waiting for the elevator, it occurred to him that Cindy and Carol were probably just teasing him. They'd surely heard the news. Shit, it was the biggest new story since 9/11. They probably just wanted to get a laugh at his reaction when he accepted their offers and they, then, said, "Fuck off!"
The elevator stopped on the way down. A woman entered and stared at him for a moment. "Hey! You want a blowjob?" she asked.
"What? Here? Now?"
"Yeah! Now! C'mon! My husband says I give real good head!"
"Your husband? I don't think so," Eddie stammered.
"But why not?" she persisted.
The elevator door opened at the mezzanine level, and Eddie rushed out down the hall to the cafeteria. The sexual energy in the air was unmistakable. Women everywhere were arguing with men in hushed whispers. Eddie had no doubts about what the conversations were about.
The server women were at their stations serving lasagna and carving cold cuts, so this _compulsion_ wasn't totally overpowering. Yet pained looks in their eyes showed that they'd rather be doing something other than serving lunch.
Bob picked a salad out of the cart and quickly paid the female cashier, who was obviously struggling to maintain her composure, to find a seat in the dining hall. The same sexual energy filled the air. Then. Ohmygod! At a table against the far wall: a woman was under the table with her head between some guy's legs with his trousers loosened. And over in the corner, behind a partially open door: a woman was on her knees with her head planted on some guy's crotch, with his slacks undone.
Holy shit! It's really happening! Don't be a fool, man! Accept some woman's offer before whatever's going on blows over!
He ate quickly and headed back to his cubicle. He considered how he would handle the next offer. Perhaps he would suggest they find an empty conference room, or go into that small one-only lavatory off by the mailroom.
"Psst!" a woman's voice came from behind him. Turning, he faced a somewhat older woman in a conservative gray skirt and blouse. "May I suck on your cock?" she asked in a whisper.
Eddie recognized her. Holy shit! She was the division manager of the Mid-Range Server Solutions Business Unit--something Jameson--his boss's boss's boss. "Uh," he stammered. "Where?"
She looked around a moment and said. "My office. C'mon!"
Her office, he knew was in _executive country,_ that semi-private corridor on the second floor that you get to by going through the marble-tiled atrium overlooking the lobby. "Okay," he whispered back.
Eddie turned red when her private secretary gave them a knowing glance as they passed through her outer office into her inner office.