When Harry Met Crazy
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All truckers, cooks, and crazy girlfriends 18+
Thanks to Juana Salsa for her nuanced edits and sage advice.
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Bob Seger had it right.
"On a long and lonesome highway east of Omaha
You can listen to the engine rolling out its one note song
You can think about the woman
Or the girl you knew the night before..."
That was me, as I drove my overloaded 18-wheeled rig down State Road 6 in an effort to avoid the scales on Interstate 80. Angela, the restaurant waitress that I'd fucked in the sleeper section of my rig on my last stop in Ely, Nevada 18 hours ago, was long gone. Only the scent of her cheap perfume remained, lingering in my cab. She'd been a friendly plump girl with a sweet face, and one of the best fucks I'd ever had; if I hadn't been so pressed for time, I might have stuck around a bit to get to know her better.
Still a bachelor at 27, I'd been driving rigs around for six years; it had been a profitable but lonely existence. Now it was time to start thinking about the future. Waking up next to someone like Angela every morning might not be such a bad thing.
Memories of parking lot fucking were not what was now foremost in my mind, however. I was bone-tired, and kept 'seeing the black dog' - the term drivers used to describe the phantom shapes that appeared to dart across the road in the beams of truck headlights. It was definitely time to pull over for a rest and a meal before I ended up with the shiny side down and the greasy side up.
A dimly-lit billboard advertised "Lewis, Iowa's own Big Bonanza Bar and Restaurant -- COLD BEER, GREAT FOOD!" three miles ahead, but it was the two words "Truckers WELCOME" that caught my eye. I knew the chances of the food being even halfway decent at some greasy spoon in the middle of nowhere were pretty damned low, but I'd pushed myself to the limit behind the wheel. I
had
to take a break.
I wasn't the only one who had this idea, as there were three other big rigs in the parking lot, along with two highway patrol cars and seven Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Let me tell you, if a place brings in truckers, cops, AND bikers, the food must be damned good! This looked promising.
I went in and found myself a stool at the counter. Without asking, the waitress -- her nametag read 'Jessie' - put a cup of coffee and a glass of water in front of me and drawled, "What'll ya have, honey?"
"You got pork chops?"
"Yup. Comes with green beans, applesauce, and taters. You want fries or mashed?"
"Mashed, please."
"Comin' up."
Twenty minutes later, I finished eating what had been the best pork chop meal I'd ever had. When the waitress came by with my ticket, I gave her the money and said, "I don't mind tellin' you, that was the best pork chop I ever ate! Give my compliments to the chef!"
She smiled, and told me "Yeah, we get that a lot. Harry's pretty damned good in the kitchen." Then she chuckled, "He's got five kids, so I'm guessing he's pretty good in the sack, too, although I wouldn't dare say anything to his wife, Melissa. She's so possessive it scares the living shit out of me! Tell you what, if you think the food was good, you compliment him yourself."
She turned her head and shouted at the pass-through, "Hey Harry, come on out! There's a customer what wants to talk to you!"
Before I could say anything, the door to the kitchen swung open and the cook came out, wearing a stained apron. On TV, diner cooks are usually big burly guys with sour dispositions, but not this guy. He was slim, about 5'6", with light red hair and a thin neatly trimmed growth of beard.
His voice was quiet and tenor-like. "Something I can help you with, bud? You not happy with the pork chop?"
"Oh, no, not at all," I assured him, "I was just telling Jessie here it was the best pork chop I'd ever had."
I guess he was waiting for a complaint. Harry stared at me for a moment, nonplussed, then asked, "You want another?"
"No, I'm plenty full, thanks." Then an idea hit me. "I'll tell you what though, let me buy you a beer before I go to my rig and turn in for the night."
He nodded, seeming to like that idea. Taking off his apron and putting it under the counter, he shouted through the pass-through window, "Hey, Raoul! You got the grill! I'll be in the bar."
A few minutes later we were seated at a table in the bar, Patsy Kline and Hank Williams songs playing on the jukebox in the background.
"So I gotta ask you, where'd you learn to cook?"
"I started out in the Navy as a cook on the USS Kearsarge, a Wasp-class aircraft carrier. When I got out, I came home to Lewis, not sure what I wanted to do. I ended up taking a job as a dishwasher here at the Big Bonanza, and eventually started helping out the cook as well."
"I was in the navy myself once, and I have to say it's a big leap from serving up the slop they gave us on board to cooking the way you do."
"Yeah, I wasn't very good at first. Then I met Melissa." He pulled out his wallet and showed me what looked like a high-school senior photo. Her face was freckled and round, and she had long dark hair. What really struck me was her eyes. You know the old clichΓ© about a woman's eyes being like pools? Well, hers were. They were big and blue, like you could drown in them. I definitely saw the attraction.
"She's very pretty," I told him.
"Yeah, I thought so too when I saw her! I was 25, and she was just 18, about to graduate. Her Dad, the mayor of Lewis, had rented the restaurant for her graduation party. Everything was going smoothly, but she kept making excuses to come back into the kitchen to check on things. By the end of the party, I had her phone number, and a boner to go with it."
"So what did you do?"
"Well, I was a cook by then, so I called her and offered to make her dinner at my place. I pulled a simple recipe out of an old Betty Crocker cookbook, a ham and scalloped potatoes casserole, and made that along with a salad and some banana pudding for dessert."
"I take it she liked it?"
"It was funny, Melissa complained about it a couple of times, saying it was OK but nothing special, but somehow managed to eat every bit of it as well as having seconds. Watching how she interacted with her father, I figured she was a spoiled little princess, so I shrugged her reaction off. I figured after dessert, I'd just take her home and that would be it."
"I take it that it wasn't?"
"Nope. When I went to get her coat to take her home, she plopped down on my sofa and announced she was mad at me. I asked whatever the hell for, and she said it was because I hadn't tried to kiss her the entire night. I mean, it was our first date after all, and with her Dad being the mayor and everything, I was trying to be respectful."
He chuckled to himself, "After she'd scolded me for not kissing her, I decided 'fuck it' and began to make up for lost time. I'm telling you, man, this girl could
kiss
! She also undid the buttons of her blouse, telling me I'd better not touch her boobs. Bear in mind, while Melissa's mother is a tiny thing with a pretty face that Melissa had inherited. Her father's 6'2", and it was him she took after body-wise. She's a big girl, weighed about 240, 6' tall with 32C boobs, plump thighs, and a pretty face. So yeah, you'd best believe I dove into that cleavage, kissing and sucking every square inch. In the meantime, she's reaching into my pants and rubbing my dick, making me even more crazy for her"
I was getting hard just listening to this guy, picturing him going to town on those giant funbags. I asked quietly, "So, did you take her to bed, then?"
"Nope. She suddenly stopped everything, jumped up, tucking everything back in and said she needed me to take her home. It was like a bucket of cold water. Being the gentleman that I am, I did as she asked. I got her home by 10:30pm. On her doorstep, she turned and shook my hand, gave me a hug, and thanked me for a delightful dinner. I went in to kiss her, but she gently pushed me away, telling me that I was a charming date, but it was still too soon for that. I thought she might have been crazy, but then I saw the doorbell camera and realized she was putting on a show for her parents."
I shook my head. "Wow, dude, that must have been tough."
"Yeah, not gonna lie, I went home and jacked off to relieve the pressure, right? But one thing was for sure, I was going to fuck Melissa no matter what it took to get in her pants."
Like a "So, did you call her the next day?