As she pulled her dress over her head and removed her bra, I recalled the last few lines of an anonymous 17th Century madrigal that I had long ago memorized:
No beauty she doth miss
When all her robes are on:
But Beauty's self she is
When all her robes are gone.
The room was hot because she made me light the four decorative candles that I had in there, and it was July, after all. We’d left “Mezzanine” playing in the living room at high volume.
The “boundaries” agreed upon earlier in the evening were soon forgotten.
At exactly 8:00 a.m. I was jolted awake by an obnoxiously loud musical ring tone. It was her mobile phone. She had apparently set the alarm on it to wake her. Before I could take stock of the situation, she was up and dressing. I couldn’t register it all at once, but by 8:10 a.m. she had come around my bed, kissed me good morning and good bye, and had scampered out of my room.
I heard her talking to Frankie, so I got up and put my boxers and a tee-shirt on. I walked out of my room and bumped into Frankie in the hallway, as I heard my front door shut. As I greeted him, he went into the guestroom, and I could see that he had made the bed and that his waitress was no longer there.
“Where’s the waitress?”
“She took off.”
“Didn’t you drive her?”
“No, she followed me in her car.”
He had peeked out the blinds in the guestroom and I joined him. We could see the STS pulling out of my driveway. We caught a glimpse of the vanity plate on the Cadillac as it drove away: “UBERMOM.”
Frankie was the first to laugh about it: “Didn’t ubermom offer to give you a ride back to your car?”
“I didn’t ask.”
“So I guess you’ll be needing that ride, then?”
“Let me jump in the shower real quick. Do you mind?”
“No.”
“Cool. Hey, any interest in catching a 9:00 mass?”
No beauty she doth miss
When all her robes are on:
But Beauty's self she is
When all her robes are gone.
The room was hot because she made me light the four decorative candles that I had in there, and it was July, after all. We’d left “Mezzanine” playing in the living room at high volume.
The “boundaries” agreed upon earlier in the evening were soon forgotten.
At exactly 8:00 a.m. I was jolted awake by an obnoxiously loud musical ring tone. It was her mobile phone. She had apparently set the alarm on it to wake her. Before I could take stock of the situation, she was up and dressing. I couldn’t register it all at once, but by 8:10 a.m. she had come around my bed, kissed me good morning and good bye, and had scampered out of my room.
I heard her talking to Frankie, so I got up and put my boxers and a tee-shirt on. I walked out of my room and bumped into Frankie in the hallway, as I heard my front door shut. As I greeted him, he went into the guestroom, and I could see that he had made the bed and that his waitress was no longer there.
“Where’s the waitress?”
“She took off.”
“Didn’t you drive her?”
“No, she followed me in her car.”
He had peeked out the blinds in the guestroom and I joined him. We could see the STS pulling out of my driveway. We caught a glimpse of the vanity plate on the Cadillac as it drove away: “UBERMOM.”
Frankie was the first to laugh about it: “Didn’t ubermom offer to give you a ride back to your car?”
“I didn’t ask.”
“So I guess you’ll be needing that ride, then?”
“Let me jump in the shower real quick. Do you mind?”
“No.”
“Cool. Hey, any interest in catching a 9:00 mass?”
“Sure.”
2 comments:
Guess she had to get home to the kiddos in a hurry. Hopefully not a husband too. ;)
Nah -- no husband -- three separate daddies, but none currently in the picture.
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