I'd been hired to do some plumbing work for a new contractor. My first job with this guy and quite possibly my last if he doesn't pull his head out of his ass. I rocked up at the correct time and place only to be told they weren't ready for me and they'd let me know when. I pointed out that they could have told me that over the phone before I drove out to the site.
"Oh, didn't my secretary leave a message?" he asked.
No, probably because you forgot to tell her to, dumb-head. Thought, but not said, as I might find myself sub-contracting for him again. No use burning my boats unless he was actually in one of them.
I checked out my work-book to see if there were any other appointments scheduled for this general area over the next couple of days, thinking that I might be able to do one of those instead. It was a bingo moment. I was due out at a girl's college to fix a non-urgent leak in one of the bathrooms. With a school, there was no need to worry about someone being home. I headed off to the college.
The college was a rather elderly building that I think used to be a convent. At some stage the nuns started teaching and now it's basically a catholic school. The nuns now live in a much more modern building a few blocks away.
I pulled up at the main building and got my first surprise. The main doors were closed, which was rather unexpected. I rang the bell and waited. After a few moments the door cautiously opened a few inches and a young woman stuck her head out.
"Can I help you?" she asked.
"I'm the plumber," I said, tapping the company logo on my shirt. If she looked she'd also see a whacking great van parked behind me with PLUMBER branded along the side.
"Um, yes?"
"There's a report of a leak in one of the bathrooms. I'm supposed to fix it."
"Ah, there's no-one here."
"I see. What are you? The school ghost?"
She blushed and asked me to hold on a moment. She pushed the door to without actually shutting it and I could hear her whispering to someone. Wonderful acoustics in that hall. I could hear every word as plain as though I was standing there next to them.
"It's the plumber. He's here to fix the bathroom. What do we do?"
"We let him in, dopey," came the tart reply.
"But we were told no visitors while everyone was away."
"I know, and I'd love to tell him to go away just to see the look on Mother Superior's face when she found out we chased off the plumber. She wouldn't be able to complain because we'd be obeying instruction. The down side is that she make us clean out the bathroom every day until he came back and fixed the leak. Let him in."
"He looks a bit of a brute and we're alone. What if he tries to molest us?"
Little bitch. What did she think I was?
"We should be so lucky," came the giggled reply. "Are you scared that he might rrrrape you or scared that he won't? Invite him in."
More giggling from the two of them and the first young lady said, "OK. I'll let him in. Do you know what bathroom?"
"Yes. Um, before you let him in let me make a minor adjustment."
There was some explosive giggling after that and then the door opened.
"I'm sorry to keep you waiting," said the sweet young thing standing there. "Won't you please come this way?"
OK. She and her friend were obviously students, not nuns-in-training. They were also taking advantage of the absence of the nuns to wear non-regulation clothes, because there was no way known the nuns would let them dress like that.
The pair of them had on what could have been school skirts, they were ugly enough for that, but they were somewhat shorter than a nun would like. Or a parent, for that matter. It took me a moment and then I twigged. The skirts were longer than that. They'd been rolled up at the waist to make them shorter. A lot shorter.
Also, I'd noticed that when the young lady had initially opened the door her blouse had had the top two buttons undone. Now a third button was undone, converting a modest blouse into a sexy display of generous cleavage. The second young lady was dressed in much the same style.
I had assumed that they'd direct me to the bathroom and leave me to do my work. Silly me. They hung around, watching and talking. They also found excuses to bend down, giving me a good view down their blouses, as if the cleavage they had on display wasn't enough. They also both managed to bend over when facing away from me, with their abridged skirts riding up and flashing their panties.
The pair of them were having fun, playing off against each other, getting themselves worked up.
They also found time to explain why they were at the school and everyone else wasn't. It appears that the nuns had arranged a big expedition, the whole school going on a field trip to one of the larger museums.
"Can you believe it? A museum," groused one of the girls. "No way were we going. I mean, we're in our senior year. We leave school after this term. We're legally adults and they wanted us to traipse around a museum in a godawful school uniform? I wouldn't be caught dead wearing this uniform in public."
"I see. So you asked to be excused?" I murmured, only half listening.
"Don't be naΓ―ve," came the reply. "Mother Superior would have pointed out that the trip would be culturally inspiring and a significant event in the school year. No, we just worked it that we got banned from going as a punishment. We pulled a prank on some of the nuns and as a result we're not permitted to go to the museum. It was such a disappointment."
Both girls exploded into giggles at that point.
I finished up the job and packed my tools. Standing, I looked at the girls thoughtfully for a moment, considering options. The proper option would be to depart without further ado. I'd really have to see about observing the proper option at some stage. Not right now, but at some stage.
I indicated that the girls should precede me out of the bathroom and they turned to head back to the main entrance.
"A moment, if you please," I said, indicating the door to a classroom that we were passing. I stepped inside and the girls followed, looking puzzled.
"Reviewing what you were saying earlier, let me see if I've got this straight. You didn't want to go to the museum so you misbehaved until you got banned from the excursion, letting you get what you wanted?"