early June a smallalbeit voluptuous young woman stood
before him her purse open her wallet tapped and hmmhmmd on the difference
remaining to be paid
she turned her huge brown eyes up
to him
he halfexpected her to ask
him to float her the difference
although he took some relief to finally
look her in the eyeslook in her eyes their height differenceher leaning forward pondering her financesher lowcut summer dressher
burgeoning cleavage Here
let me help you with thatits gotta be killing your back Yesplease if youd take onejust one Im sure Id
feel less burdened You have no idea
his ideas didnt run to the burden
ample breasts might present a fit young woman
he had ideasshe gave him ideas
to
be sure some of those ideas did seek to remedy her discomfort now that she brought them up and evident and damn near out
How much am I short?
Eight dollars
Eight dollars she said it as if
she were confused I thought I had that
and more in my purse earlier tonight.
Well it seems youve given it a thorough going
overI cant believe how many pockets your purse hasthats . .
.
. Amazing . .
. . Youre stealin my fire . .
.
. No. Why else would I have bought it?
Its leather Its handsome Itd look
good against whatever you wore dressed up dressed down
It would wouldn’t it? Yes. Though
an expensive purse. I bet you wouldn’t buy for a wallet for what I paid for
this purse. she stopped abruptlyher shoulders lifting
intuiting
he said No ones behind you Your
confusion over your missing money is timed perfectly to a lull in the action as
it were Take your time take
your time gads a good friend always said Feast your
eyes she was an artist though he was confident she didnt envision
his circumstance before this banquet
absently Where
was I prior? rhetorical
she looked him deep in the eyes
Did I say as we went back and forth about Happy Twosday T-W-O-S day, the way
you fashion Tuesdays, what I was up to when you also asked, Having a good day?
No You asked rather than answered me and I told
you I had a fine morning writing went to the gym took a sauna came to work
I’d love to take a sauna.
Do you get guest passes?
Whoa Were wandering wide of garnering change Youre really distracting me
I’m distracting?
Youre beautiful but thats another matter Back to the matter at hand I think we can agree youve exhausted your purse
I have I have. Hmm.
Are we at an impasse
Hmm.
Hmm.
AH! she stood uprightsmiling quickly I
remember! You’ll never guess.
Are you asking me to guess
No. Because you’d never guess. I
know where my change the difference is.
the suspense was killing him
then without aplombas a matter of
fact she slipped the fingers of her right hand inside the fabric facetiously
hiding her left breast and came away with a fold of one dollars bills she
counted out three then retired the fold to its fold There’s three dollars. then she slipped the
fingers of her left between the fabric and her right breast and claimed a
fold of fivesOH tensOH twenties folded inside a five Here’s a five. That makes eight. somehow he was able to restrain
himself and not agree with her that she made a firm eight
It is eight, correct?
he
caught his breathcleared his throat Excuse me Yes It
is Eight
It is
I knew it was somewhere at hand.
It was he
laughed to himself
I’m so happy I remembered.
Youll have to excuse me but I havent seen a woman at cash in that
manner since my grandmother in the
sixties She died when I was a boy When
odd cash was needed in a pinch shed have it safe and secure And warm And scented Like your bills
Oh, you noticed.
I would I have that history
I saw it as a girl in an old
black and white film. I remember thinking if I was welldeveloped, like the dame,
I love that, dame, if I became as welldeveloped as she I’d hide money away
like that too, for safe keeping.
Well a handfulpardon the pun was kept safe You usually kept that much cash at ahhmm at hand
Search me.
Dont Im tempted I might
she smiled real big
maybe her breasts were as big to help offset
her smile her eyes
Now, the sauna . . .
early June
2018
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