Thursday, September 23, 2004

true enough

i’d had enough of poker once it got to be 7:30am one saturday morning at foxwoods. 10+ hours at the table was enough for me, i was finished. a miserable night of bad beats and i was lucky to be almost even. finally. cashed out and made my way to the spa for a little rest and relaxation before another “session.”

stumbled into the spa half dead and ready for some rest. a quick shower and i’m in my suit headed for the lounge chairs near the pool.

now its 9am and i just woke up from a little resty rest.

a couple of laps later and i’m awake again, ready to jump out of the pool and read the paper. and while none of this story is true, lets just pretend, shall we? please?

ok, here we go: i’m climbing out of the pool using one of those pool ladders they have in the deep end. the entire place in empty and quiet because its ass-early in the morning and nobody is awake at a casino this early.

except.

except for someone just walking in and putting a towel down on a lounge chair. lets pretend she’s young and attractive, and maybe 30, because at this point i can’t tell, what with her back to me and the towel that’s wrapped around her. all i can tell is that she must have just taken a shower because her hair is soaked. all this i can tell in perhaps 5 seconds.

and then the miracle happens.

and how did i get so lucky? how am i in the right spot at the right time? i’m never in the right spot at the right time, save for this one moment:

i’ve got my hands on the ladder, about to pull myself out of the water up to the first step when she takes off the towel that is wrapped around her. no big deal, right? well, no big deal if you remembered to put on your bathing suit after showering. suddenly there is a naked woman standing in front of me, which confuses the hell out of me. no way is this right. naked. wet. in front of me.

the next 2 seconds: she scares herself by letting out a little yelp. the yelp and the naked body combined make me lose my grip on the ladder and i fall back into the pool, only to come back up and see her wrapped in the towel again. are you picturing this scene? can you believe any of this?

she’s smiling and laughing and blushing and gathering her bag of stuff to head back to the bathroom and i’m just as embarrassed as she is because i’m shy as hell and feel all bad about the situation.

as soon as she’s out of the pool area i grab my shit, dry myself off, and head to change because like hell i was going to be there when she came back to the pool all un-naked, that would be way too awkward and may have even involved actual conversation, which, after seeing her totally nude would have been entirely impossible.

only i do see her again. we bump into each other as i’m on the way in and she’s on the way back out. we kind of freeze as soon as we see each other, not knowing what to do. then we race towards each other and hug and kiss and grope and fondle and touch and stroke and rub and caress and end up having wild hot-tub sex. but only for like 15 minutes because it was so hot & steamy we could barely handle it – both the tub & the sex.