Late October isn't the time of year to be walking down Ocean Ave, In Seabright NJ, when the Atlantic Ocean is sending waves crashing over the sea wall. But here I was, seventeen years old, waking in my Middletown South Varsity jacket, listening to my Walkman, wishing I had a car and not another four miles to go.
A car pulls up next to me, a window rolls down. A sweet voice comes from inside. "Need a ride?" I look in, it's an older woman, but at seventeen anyone older then twenty is old.
I say, "yes," as she leans over and opens the door. The hot air envelopes me as I get in. I apologize for being so wet. She smiles and asks me where I'm headed. I give her my general area, and she smiles. She drives in the totally wrong direction, but the hot air and the scent of her perfume makes me not care.
She pulls into a house, overlooking the Navesink River, which even in those days was worth millions. As she gets out, she says, "Let's get those clothes dry." I follow her into the house, she leads me into the laundry room and tells me to strip down. I'm a virgin, so I'm rather shy and apprehensive about this. She steps towards me, wraps her arms around me, and kisses me on the lips.
Her hands start to unbutton my jacket, pushing it off my shoulders. She starts to unbutton my Levi button fly jeans, as I slip off my shoes. The Levis get pushed to my ankles, and I step out of them. I pull my T-shirt off, and now standing in front of a woman, for the first time only in my tighty whites, which have left nothing for the imagination of what I have down there.