Story for the Worker

As the four women were well into their sixth bottle of wine all inhibitions went out of the window as the conversation led onto their dating experiences. They erupted into fits of laughter as Cherry told her story of her first ever blind date. The guy she had been fixed up with by a work colleague had been trying so hard to impress yet he must have had the no sense of smell, rather than a sweet aroma of aftershave smelled as if he had put on the whole bottle and after half an hour in the local bar she had got through almost all of her inhaler. the blind date had to be cut short due to the fact Cherry could hardly breath. She had said that she had a cold rather than hurt he guys feelings, and when he had rang the following fay she had made excuses about not yet being over her ex. It seemed that passion was lacking in the whole room when it came to their love lives.

Lucy's story was even more bizarre, she had been talked into going to a swingers club by her then boyfriend. She had thrown caution to the wind thinking you only lived once. When inside she had felt really self conscious at the people scattered all over the chairs and floor and couldn't make out where the carpet of bodies began or ended. Her ex partner Gary seemed to be at home there though and got stuck in with a young blond while Lucy was being harassed by a balding fifty something. Needless to say the relationship did not go any further and Lucy threw herself back into single city.

Gaynor's tale started out pretty tame and normal as she spoke of how she had met her latest boyfriend. he had invited her for a meal at his house and she had been overwhelmed by the sweet aroma coming from the kitchen, wow a man who could cook and good looking too. His house was spotless, he really seemed to have it all. That was until she went into the kitchen to wash up and found the take away receipts in the cutlery drawer matching what she had just eaten and lying on the kitchen side was a paper where the industrial cleaning section had been circled. It had read, no job too big or too small, but as it had clearly said the TEAM of specialised cleaners, she wondered what kind of slob this potential boyfriend was and the fact that he had lied on their first date left a really bad taste in her mouth.

They all sat and reminisced dates gone by and boyfriends that had come and gone from their lives, wondering what it would take to get a decent man. With Cherry and her blind date, Gaynor and the aroma of lies and then the stories from Faye of her getting so close to passion then realising her Bridget Jones style pants were going to kill any night of passion that may have been it looked like a girls night in was as good as it got.