This story is entirely true.
Back in the early nineties, I was working as a repairman for a large furniture company. The furniture was total shit, so it often got damaged when the delivery guys were hauling it from the warehouse to the buyer’s home. Every morning, I was given a list of around a dozen service calls within a hundred-mile radius of the warehouse. I drove to the customer’s house, assessed the situation, and did my best to repair the damaged furniture. If a part needed to be replaced, it was necessary to schedule a follow-up visit.
At the time, I was twenty-two years old and in a disastrous three-year-long marriage. The bottom line was that I got married too young and regretted it. At the time, I had little self-confidence, probably because my wife and I seldom had sex. We were both raised in very religious homes and were taught that sex was only supposed to be between a married man and woman - missionary only.
Looking back, I realize now that I was a healthy, fit, and attractive young man, albeit a late bloomer. At 6’1” tall and 180 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes, I had a lot to offer a partner. I just didn’t know it.
Then I met Kayla.
It was my last service call of the day. Kayla put in a claim for a dining room table she purchased that was damaged in transit. When I arrived at her door, she invited me in and showed me the damage, which was little more than a small dent and a couple of superficial scratches on the leg of the dining room table.
To be blunt, Kayla looked exactly like the vast majority of my customers - older, probably in her late thirties or early forties, and very well-manicured. I figured she was a housewife with at least one kid and plenty of extra time to complain about superficial damage on a shitty piece of fake-wood furniture.
At least Kayla didn’t hover over me while I did the repairs. She disappeared into the back of the house and I did what I was paid to do. The repairs took about thirty minutes.
When a repair job was completed, I had to get the customer to sign a release form that stated the work was done to their satisfaction. After calling her name, Kayla came back out to the dining room and inspected the work. She said everything looked great and then invited me into the living room so I could fill out the paperwork.
I sat on Kayla’s sofa and she sat down right next to me. It took about ten minutes to write up my report, throughout which Kayla kept making small talk. During that time, I learned that she was divorced, had one teenage daughter who was a junior in high school and worked as a receptionist in a doctor’s office.
Kayla also had a new kitten. When I was close to being done with the report, the kitten woke up and stumbled over to me before trying to climb up my legs and onto my lap. The kitten was adorable, so I set down my clipboard and helped it get up onto my lap.
Kayla touched my arm to get my full attention. It was then I noticed she had beautiful eyes, blue like the color of glacial ice.
Then Kayla said, “Does that kitten know something I should know?”
Back then, I was thick as a brick. I had no idea what Kayla was talking about.
Kayla clarified, “It seems drawn to your lap for some reason. What are you hiding in there?”