She glanced up and down the block, saw no one, and hiked up her tight skirt, smoothing and tugging her pantyhose up her legs.She glanced up and down the block, saw no one, and hiked up her tight skirt, smoothing and tugging her pantyhose up her legs. I mean, I had seen her mowing the lawn in running shorts plenty of times, but this was different: I wasn't *meant* to see this. When the skirt got up around her hips, I broke into a sweat. God, I thought, I'd love to put my hands where hers were! She untangled her slip, or whatever she was adjusting, and carefully pulled her skirt back down into place, turning it and tugging it until it hung the way she wanted it to. Then she closed the passenger door, *click-clicked* around to the other side of the car, hopped in, revved up, and left. I was glued to the kitchen counter for another ten minutes, thinking about what I had just seen. After that, whenever I was around the house in the morning, I tried to station myself near the kitchen window about the time I estimated Carol was due to leave. Usually, my reward was just a thirty-second parade down the driveway, but that was okay. She was always tall and straight and nice to look at. (If nothing else, the High Hats had taught her correct posture.) Sometimes she wore slacks (covering most of her high heels almost to the ground, which I consider sexy), but she mostly preferred skirts. And, every so often, she would pause to use her thumb as a shoehorn, or to wiggle her slip into place, or to adjust a bra strap. I considered keeping my old camera handy but that seemed a little *too* lecherous -- and besides, she might hear the shutter click, or see a reflection from the lens, or something. One Friday morning last spring, when I had the day off and had taken up my usual post, she came out the front door and paused suddenly with the door still ajar. I thought I could just make out the ringing of a phone. In her hurry to answer it, she left her front door open and I eased my window up an inch or two. Her raised voice came through pretty clearly though I couldn't make out the words. |