The Kiss

[billrunnels]

Bill, I had two years in Saudi Arabia, in that two years I had only one "conversation" with a woman. Walking around a supermarket a woman from your side of the pond crunched my ankle with her trolley, she said "sorry" and I said "It's OK".

Brief conversation

 

[mikewint]

I always found interesting how love (and lust) flourishes during wartime

Being shot at, blown up, and knifed, not to mention being cooped up with 10-15 smelly alpha males for weeks and weeks has a way to really get those biological juices/urges surging. We had "Hooch Maids" in camp to do household-type tasks like laundry and cleaning, we paid them, but they were like furniture and we treated them as such, I was young.
Our #1 maid (probably VC)

 

[billrunnels]

Bill, as you know, when you are bored and alone there is nothing better than the company of a young woman, by the same token the young lady quite liked being wined and dined for a day with a complete stranger.

How true! I think the thrill of the moment played havoc with my brain. She was a classy young lady.

 

[pbehn]

How true! I think the thrill of the moment played havoc with my brain. She was a classy young lady.

Moments make memories Bill, I well remember my first job in Japan, young women would just shout "hello" for no particular reason, in the street. One 17 year old bar maid said "I love you" it turned out that "love" means something different in Japanese and she had "always" wanted to say it to someone. "Always" being how many times she had given it any thought in her 17 years on this planet, in the place I was working I was the only foreigner, so I was in a "target rich environment". It was strange being the focus of almost a whole city's projections and prejudices.

 

[pbehn]

Being shot at, blown up, and knifed, not to mention being cooped up with 10-15 smelly alpha males for weeks and weeks has a way to really get those biological juices/urges surging. We had "Hooch Maids" in camp to do household-type tasks like laundry and cleaning, we paid them, but they were like furniture and we treated them as such, I was young.
Our #1 maid (probably VC)
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I had a "house boy" whos job it was to clean and polish the apartment, he woke me up every two weeks polishing my bedside table with his fffing spray furniture polish right in my face after a 12 hr night shift, we moved accommodation before that stupidity was resolved.

 

[airminded88]

Being shot at, blown up, and knifed, not to mention being cooped up with 10-15 smelly alpha males for weeks and weeks has a way to really get those biological juices/urges surging. We had "Hooch Maids" in camp to do household-type tasks like laundry and cleaning, we paid them, but they were like furniture and we treated them as such, I was young.

Being a teenager not that long ago I can clearly remember that biological onslaught the average male human body is subjected to and having your life on the edge at all moments I can understand the desire to live each day at a time.
I take that everything was consensual and the maids were satisfied with their end of the deal.

Cheers

 

[airminded88]

How true! I think the thrill of the moment played havoc with my brain. She was a classy young lady.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has gone through that in those crucial moments!
I have the feeling she thought of you like a fine gentleman

Cheers

 

[airminded88]

I am sorry to say I did not see her again. I didn't even get her phone number. How dumb is that?

Seeing the glass half full maybe it was fate in the works ensuring that you and your wife would meet each other and fall in love

Cheers my friend

 

[billrunnels]

Being a teenager not that long ago I can clearly remember that biological onslaught the average male human body is subjected to and having your life on the edge at all moments I can understand the desire to live each day at a time.
I take that everything was consensual and the maids were satisfied with their end of the deal.

Cheers

I don't recall ever having that feeling of "live each day at a time" but others did. I tried to stay positive regarding the future in my thought process. I think this was a cop out for some I knew to justify their actions and real for others.

 

[billrunnels]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has gone through that in those crucial moments!
I have the feeling she thought of you like a fine gentleman

Cheers

I hope so.

 

[mikewint]

Not at all Mike. I was 31 and married with a newborn baby she was 20 with an Italian boyfriend

I am sorry to say I did not see her again. I didn't even get her phone number.

As Grandpappy always said, "There's nothing worse in this world than the memory of temptation successfully resisted."

 

[pbehn]

As Grandpappy always said, "There's nothing worse in this world than the memory of temptation successfully resisted."

I think you must have miss read my post on the topic Mike, within two hours of meeting I was sleeping with an Italian and an English woman, we just never took our clothes off. After posting I remembered that the two women had French and Italian as languages but all three of us only had French in common. There was no temptation resisted, she was 20 with an Italian boyfriend at the end of her journey.

 

[mikewint]

There was no temptation resisted

You were male...she was female... the boy friend was absent, and you were alone eventually. All the rest is/was superfluous. The small head has no conscience