Wednesday, | March 2, 1988 _

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me ‘Looking at linge

_ young girl, naked from the waist up, looked dor
_ nipples pointed at my throat. |
“Wanna make it two out of three falls?" I speed at the Pic-

ture, _

“Our marriage reached the ‘new nightie stage once again. last _

es s which jum, ed out and quickly wrestled me
to the floor. Tay under a tangle ‘of bras and brass. A photo of a.

Ihave a complaint.

' It’s embarrassing eno ough | to be ina shop that has things hang:
ing around that, if the things that go in them were them,

c see them right through the things that were sup

"hiding them and see the things therein, but it’s just not fair 10

wn at me, naked

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e - - week. have pictures of girls with bare boobs out t there i in plain sight for
For me, this trial by lingerie comes along only every five years . just any guy to gawk at at.
, or so. The in between years are mercifully handled by other — Pictures like that should stay in centerfolds where they belong. -
other close relatives, or The Missus herself. — After the saleslady had helped me up and rehung the bras, she
I don’t know about other husbands, the question of what their. ‘showed me a handful of itty bitty silky threads. “Feel this and
wives wear to bed never seems to come up in our conve: see if that’s what you had in mind."
; but for me, standing in a nightic shop, right out in n ph I reached out and touched it with the tip of one finger. "Nice,"
| Surrou! ud by tinny fenjale: underwear, makes 1 - I mumbled. For the next 15 minutes we ran our | inds over rec
. And my hands shake, sol keep th Pp _ (wow), blue, black (never), white, ivory, purple (yuck) and yel-
This shop was tiny. Miniscule. I could have ueiched. out my __ lowish silks. a streamed down my face. I needed acold ..
-. arms and touched both walls but I probably would have ote my | shower. ;
fingers tangled in bra Straps orteddies. She offered me a glass of ice water from a nearby Th
_.. Where can you move in a place like that? Mor an Seems they get more than a few calls for a cooling down.
: where can you look withou out | g Tom’ Tea t quite a lot that day. Nighties aren’ ik .
tomers, Jadies, walked in, picked up bits of lace, held them They come with. detachable or stay-on panties. Some have no |
aloft and in | loud voices asked if they could try them on. Hooked - fronts, others no sides, or no sleeves, or long sleeves but | no
at the floor. _ backs, bottoms but no tops or the other way around. None of
| When a pair of female feet came into view and a husky voice _ them would keep a flea warm. -
- asked me if I needed any help, I asked, as calmly as possible, = —- I saw one with shoulder straps so long that if The Missus had
"Co u please show me something in your underwear?” _ t it on people would have thought am was we
7 _ There wasalong pause. skirt held up by skinny suspenders, . a
Q "I mean, I need someone, I mean som nething, in a nightie. ~. L eventually settled on a plain greyish pic ce with big b buttons -

- About five-foot-two, blue eyes, blonde hair, you knc
__T-was describing The Missus but unfortunately: the ‘saleslady
had same characteristics. I looked at the floor really hard.
"LT mean, I need a nightie. We wore the last one out. I mean she
- did. My wife. It’s for my wife." oe
I glanced up and saw an ol sure-your-wife look on her face as
~ she beckoned | me toward the nightie corner. oo

d kept my eyes on her feet and unforunaely didn’t see the oar

down the front that looked like one of my shirts, only prettier,
a The reason I picked it is that if The Missus didn’ t want to wear
it to bed, she could call it a blouse and wear it downtown wh
she went to buy herself a nightie. :
_. So if you see a lovely blonde lady wearing a floppy greyish
~~ shirt, wish her a happy bir n
~- went though buying it. oe
_ Told her it was as easy as unsnapping a bra

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