SLOGGING THROUGH WINTER… Good & bad (Part 169o)
The first
thing Lena wanted to know was what had she seen at her feet… was it
really a rat? I, as calmly as I could, told it was but that it was dead
when she stepped on it. The look on her face was of sheer terror. As I
stated earlier, I’m not happy with being around rats and would prefer
they not be a part of my life. But, to Lena, the fact that she’d stepped
on one, a dead one to boot, was akin to being attacked by a rabid dog.
I’d always gotten along with Lena but didn’t have much daily contact
with her. J J, on the other hand, saw her and interacted with her on a
daily basis. With Lena’s reaction to being told by me that it was a rat I
looked to J J to try and calm her down. She was still sort of lying on
the couch with both legs on the seat. I was at the end by her feet and J
J was standing above her by her head. When he started talking she
turned her body to look at him and as she did she had to put one leg on
the floor and then twist. As she did I watched her knees spread at least
15 to maybe 18 inches apart at the knees. Thankfully, she was looking at J J. I’m
sure mouth had opened wide. Not only did I get to witness one of the most
fantastic, unexpected, upskirts of my life but it was almost like icing
on the cake when I saw that her crotch appeared to be wet and the wetness had
wicked up about two inches above the crotch line. The wetness of the
single ply material above the crotch line made it sheer enough to see
her pubic hair.
I have no idea what J J told her. I’m guessing
but I had to have stared at that scene for at least 10, if not more,
seconds before I looked away. When I did I realized I had a significant
bulge in my pants and had to turn away from her. After gathering control
of myself I recognized that word of the rat would be spread through the
bank within minutes of her getting back to her desk… and that was going
to be another problem. By then Lena had turned and was sitting up with both
feet on the floor. As best I could I explained that the bank knew about
the rats but had, up until then, managed to keep them from getting into
the storage area. I tried to assure her that it was not a big problem
and, more or less, tried to persuade her from causing a panic among the
ladies of the bank by talking about it. All I remember getting back is a
blank stare. J J then told her the reason he was even down there was to
let her know that she was wanted in the Board room. That seemed to get
her back on an even keel and J J offered her his hand to help her up and
then followed her out the door and up the stairs. I went to lock the
door to the storage area before heading up myself. When I turned to face
the stairs I saw both of them stopped only a few steps up. I could see
past J J and saw Lena patting her backside and turned as if she were
trying to look at it. Then she started back to the top. To me that was
confirmation of her “accident”
However, at that moment my
thoughts were only on trying to mitigate the potential damage her tale
of what had happened to her might do. When all three of us were on the
main floor I told J J that I was going to call a meeting of all the
first floor employees to explain the situation and suggested that I
could do the same for the second floor if he wanted. While doing this I
saw Lena standing at the bottom of the stairs to the second floor
pulling her skirt out from the back of her legs and, again, patting her
backside which was further confirmation of her being wet. I didn’t dwell
on it at the time and went to Laurie to call the tellers together so I
could say my piece. While she was doing that I went to Bret to have him
gather up the rest of the first floor people. The reaction was muted
mostly because none of the women ever had need to go into the storage
area. The only real negative reaction was from, of all people, Bret.
Upstairs, J J addressed the people of the second floor with me giving the detail of how the bank had and was handling the situation. There
were a few questions as there were a few of the women that did have to
go there. I did notice that Lena wasn’t among the group but knew she’d
been called to the Board room. I just hoped that she wouldn’t create a
problem when she reappeared so I asked J J to keep an eye out for her and
to try and monitor anything negative.
Back at my desk I was
finally able to get back to bank business and began wondering about the
branch committee meeting and what had transpired. While there I did notice
Lena, with her coat on, leaving the bank. It wasn’t much after 4pm and I
knew she would always stay late on Board meeting days to go over the
meeting with Bert, the president. Again, I didn’t dwell on it but was
smiling to myself. Before 5pm Mae came over to ask what had actually
happened in the cellar. I hadn’t mentioned Lena’s name only that a
second floor employee had come across a dead rat while there. Mae wanted
to know why I felt it important to go over something that we’d agreed
to keep quiet. If it had been anyone other than Mae I wouldn’t have gone
into detail but, as I’ve expressed in previous posts, I felt she’d
proven to be quite a ‘find’ and was comfortable in sharing with her.
When I told her that Lena had passed out after stepping on and then
seeing the dead rat she sort of snickered. I asked why and she said
she’d done that once… when she was first married. They’d gotten an
apartment and her husband, an over the road trucker, went on a trip soon
after the wedding leaving her alone for the first time in her life. She
got home from work and found a man there… and the next thing she
remembered was that she was on the floor. In telling me this she said it
was one of her most embarrassing moments because the guy turned out to
be her husband. His truck had broken down and he’d come home early. I
hesitated before asking why she was embarrassed in front of her husband.
You’d have to know Mae to appreciate the bluntness of her answer…
“Because I pissed myself!”. It was not the answer that I expected. But
the real surprise was when she went on and asked if Lena had done the
same. Even though I knew she had there was no way I’d tell on her. Mae certainly was nothing to look at but I did find her admission a bit erotic.
After
the Board members had left I was able to glean some information about
the branch committee meeting from Hobie. Based upon the report from
Morris, the branch site consultant, and the tentative ingress and egress
approval from the township zoning committee the full Board approved a motion to
sign a contract on the property. A very broad timeline had been
established and the hope was to be open in a little over a year. Of
course, in the back of my mind was why I’d been excluded from the
meeting. At first I wasn’t going to ask but my curiosity got the best of
me. Hobie didn’t go into details but did say that to make the decision they
didn’t need my input but after an architect was chosen I’d be very much
involved. After the debacle of the first branch plans it was good news
although I was still a bit miffed. All in all, a pretty good day!
To be continued…
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