I was driving through a small town out on the coast when I had a little bit of unfortunate luck. I was on the main road and it had been raining, resulting in a wet road, but apart from that everything was fine. I was quite taken aback when there was a nasty crunch from the front passenger's side and the car started driving funny, wanting to pull over to the side.
Blowout, I told myself, pulling over to the side of the road, prepared to change the wheel. I looked at the wheel and it was just fine, no sign of any flatness or anything wrong that I could see. I strolled back down the road a little to see if I could find what I hit and I found it all right. There was a massive pothole in the road, no longer covered by water as I'd splashed most of it out when I hit it.
So the cause of the bump was explained but not why the car had felt wonky. I got back in and started driving and knew straight away that I was in trouble. The car was pulling to the side like crazy and I was struggling to maintain a straight line. I made it to a garage and requested the services of a mechanic.
"Your wheel's crooked," the mechanic told me. "When you hit that pot hole you hit it hard enough to bend the coupling rod. You need to get a new one before she's drivable. Give me a couple of days to get the part in and install it and you'll be good to go. I'll let the bozos down in city hall know that they've got a brand new pothole in the main strip. They'll get that fixed quick enough."
I considered my appointments over the next few days and came to the conclusion that there was nothing I couldn't defer for a while. Apart from that one shower the weather seemed to be good so a couple of days break wouldn't hurt me. I asked the mechanic to point me to a decent Bed & Breakfast and then wandered down there and checked in for a few days.
I met most of the other guests in the common room that evening. There was a mixture of young and old but no-one that noticeably stood out so I finished up retiring to my room and getting onto the laptop to do a bit of writing. A bit too much, possibly, because it was midnight when I finally went to bed.
I woke up at first light and could hear the bustling about of the staff and the other guests. Did I have any particular desire to get up and join the bustling about? Not that I noticed. I rolled over and went to sleep again.
It was nearly twelve before I rolled my lazy ass out of bed and headed off to the communal bathroom. Not surprisingly no-one else wanted to use the bathroom at that hour so I just waltzed straight in and had my shower. I was drying off when it came to my attention that I'd forgotten to lock the door.
The incident that brought this oversight to mind was the pretty young thing who came barging in, banging the door behind her. Then she spotted me and stopped dead in her tracks, starting to blush.
"Let's see. You're, you're," I was snapping my fingers trying to recall her name, "Nancy," I said, finally recalling it. "Nancy Branson. Right?"
She nodded dumbly, trying to look everywhere but at me. Why didn't the silly girl just exit? The reason she was trying not to look at me (and not succeeding) was because a certain male appendage had reacted to her initial look at it and risen to the occasion.
"Um, yes," she admitted. "Ah, would you mind covering up?"
"Why? If you've seen one you've seen them all. You're married I believe so you've certainly seen one before."
"Not like that I fucking haven't," she muttered.
I don't think I was supposed to catch that. Still, if it embarrassed her why was she still here looking? I mean, I knew why she was here. She was wearing silk pyjamas so I was surmising I wasn't the only one who slept in and wanted a shower. I glanced down at my erection that was standing tall.
"What's wrong with it?" I asked her. "A perfectly normal erection. That's just what happens when a pretty young thing stares at it."
"I am not staring at it," she snapped. "I would prefer it if you covered up with a towel. I just consider it to be a little on the large size."
"Really?" I asked, surprised. "How do you know if you haven't been checking it out?" I might have been a little on the plus side of average in regard to length and girth but I certainly wasn't super-sized.
While she was spluttering out a furious denial I reached over and started flicking open the buttons on her pyjama top. I had two undone before she could reach and then she was slapping at my hands and trying to hold the top together.
"Stop that," she snapped, continuing to slap at my hands. She'd have been better served doing up the buttons I'd released. "What do you think you're doing?"
"Undoing your top," I said, pointing out the obvious. "Right now I want to see your breasts. I can see them bouncing under that silky top and I'm intrigued. Longer term I'm going to make love to you. I find you remarkable appealing right now."
"You can't do that," she said firmly. "I don't do that sort of thing. I'm married, or had you forgotten."
"Seeing you were introduced with your husband, Jack, and you're wearing a ring it would be pretty hard to miss out on knowing that, but I don't mind."