I just got back from a three-hundred-mile ride on my old 91 Harley sportster1200. Parked in the driveway is an 89 Lincoln Towncar, black with a white carriage top. I'm feeling great from a nice long ride, it is about three in the afternoon and I'm wondering whose car this is. I'm hankering for a big burger, fries, and a beer. I go into the house through the garage and into the kitchen and sitting at the table is a fine-looking woman in what I'd think is her upper fifties, an off-white blouse, black pleated skirt with a two-inch pat. black alligator belt and patent black uppers with bows and across a very well-filled blouse a pair of silver half-moon style glasses hung from a pearl beaded chain. I'm getting hard.
"Jeff," says Mom, "This is my friend Gertrude or Gerty. She will be staying here for a bit while her place is getting remodeled. Gerty will be coming and going as she needs to will cook when she wants and uses the house as we do."
Gerty gets out from behind the table and I shake her hand. "Hi, Gerty, glad to meet you." And I am.
"Hello Jeff, your Mom tells me you are working as an apprentice electrician and that you take it very seriously, also that you are really into riding a motorcycle. is it a V-twin engine?"
I'm thinking, damn she knows about bikes. "Yes, it is a 1200 c.c. engine."
"Also that you like music, keyboard?"
"Yes, Gerty classical and pops."
"Whose your favorite composer?" she asks me and I am aware my eyes are really looking at her half's hanging across her nice-sized blossoms.
"Chopin and Beethoven, Chopin for his etude opus ten number three and Beethoven for the Moonlight sonata and Path'etique."
"Well, those are two very well-known pieces of music. Joyce, where's the lady's room?"
"Down the hallway on the left," said Mom as she took a load of laundry into the garage as that's where the washer is.
Gerty takes her half-glasses and beaded pearl chain and puts them on the table, then heads to the bathroom.
With her beads over my neck, I peer thru her half-glasses. Did she drop them in her soup? I got them spotless and sparking and put them back where she left them. She comes back and sits down as I'm grabbing the Gatorade out of the fridge. She's putting the chain over the back of her neck, picks them up, and looks through them, possibly thinking something about them has changed not knowing I'm watching, she smiles.
I guess she thought I was in another room as she asked my Mom, "Joyce, does this house have magic powers?"
"No, I do, why?"
"My glasses needed cleaning, I just don't remember even cleaning them. They are looking better than I ever cleaned them before though, there's something about that."
"Oh, Gerty your mind is probably on the remodeling job."
"I guess so, I am so impressed with Jeff, two of the greatest pianists in the world."
"Just don't commit any crimes, Gerty!"
"What?"
"Jeff's big on Columbo."
Two in the morning and the ketchup and beans got to me, so I go to get a drink and I see another pair of half-glasses on the table. Gold half-square with a pearl beaded chain. I take and look through them. "What is Gerty doing to these sweet glasses?" I ask the world as I get them spotless and sparkling then I drag them under my balls and the thoughts of creaming them get me quite hard. I make sure they are beyond spotless and are sparkling in the light of the low watts stove lamp.
I'm doing up some roast beast hash in my cast iron no-stick skillet and Mom walks in.
"Morning Jeff, you sleep well last night?"
I'm thinking that's an interesting question first thing in the morning.
"Yeah, Mom, pretty good. It was kinda hot yesterday...why do you ask?
"So what are you doing today?" Mom does not want to answer questions... Okay, no big deal but I'm thinking Gerty told her that another pair of half-glasses were found spotless and sparkling.
Mom is sipping coffee and reading the Sunday paper through a pair of dark brown half-moon style glasses with a high bridge half down her nose and she looks quite hot. I know there is something going on here, but say not a word about this. I mean, I clean Gerty's half-glasses twice and now Mom is wearing hers? I don't think it is a coincidence.
"So Jeff, what do you think of Gerty?"
"Very nice, Mom, she comes across as very confident, as she has gone to college and maybe a school for music? She seems to have a lot of cultures."
"Am I missing something here, Jeff?
"Like what?"
"Like you already knew her? Like before yesterday?"
"No, Mom, I never met her before."
"Well, once again you seem to really know something about someone you never met. I don't know how you do it, but you summed her up quite accurately."
It was a busy week and today is Thursday at eleven at night, I'm glad. During the week, whenever Gerty left a pair of half's laying around, they got cleaned spotless and sparkling and tonight as I stand by the fridge looking at those chocolate eclairs I'm thinking about dropping a tiny bit of custard on her half-glasses to see what happens. I like Gerty very much and I think she likes me a lot as well. She seems very pleased I know something about classical music, I would imagine she plays piano, but not sure though.
Friday is a hard day and I'm glad it is over. I get home and the house is empty. I see Gerty's silver half-moon style glasses in the bathroom with the pearl beaded chain and I take care of my needs with them and it is very nice. I wonder what she thought when she saw her gold half-square style glasses visited by two small drops of custard. I clean these up very well, they needed it too.