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In my whole life, including almost 30 years of marriage, the truly amazing events almost always came as a total surprise. Every once in a while, I’ve been able to plan something exciting and have it work out the way I planned, but far more often, the best stuff ends up being completely unexpected.

I’m not talking about great sex after a date night, that kind of plan usually works out as expected. I’m talking about ending up naked in a hot tub with your wife and her best friend, or a quiet night hanging out with a neighbor turning into a naked game of truth or dare.

I will get things started with a few brief stories, and hope to both hear your stories and find out if I’m the only one who doesn’t seem to be able to plan things, but is happy to go along when the surprising stuff happens.

SIL naked hot tubbing: one of my wife’s sisters and I have always lightly teased each other about nakedness going back to a strip poker game 20 years earlier. We had a hot tub at the time, and any time it came up in conversation, if we were alone or with my wife, she would make comments that we were probably in there naked all the time. I would tease back that she was welcome to join us anytime. It was totally harmless, zero chance of cheating, and my wife would join the joking if she was there. That said, I was absolutely trying to figure out how to get her into the hot tub naked, she was and still is, cute, nice body, and a really fun girl.

Probably ten different times I thought that night would be the night it happened. Big parties, small get togethers, her staying with us for a few days, she’s got a new BF, she just broke up with her BF, whatever. But any time I actually had the thought, or tried to engineer it, it would inevitably fail.

And then, one random night in the middle of the week she was over at our house. Nobody was drinking or anything like that, I think we were just watching TV. My wife reminded me that I should check the hot tub because I had just refilled the floating disinfectant thing the other day and I said that as long as I was going out there, I would probably get in and enjoy it. I asked if anyone wanted to join me and my wife said no, and my SIL said maybe, which I took to mean no, so I walked out myself.

I did the dipstick thing first because if the chemicals were wrong I wasn’t going to get in, and after dipping it I went back into the changing room to look at it under the light. As I was holding the stick up to read it, my wife’s sister walked in and asked if the chemicals were good. I said they were, the color was right, and asked if she wanted to take a soak. She said that she did, and then started undressing. This was one of the rare times where the hot tub was discussed and some joke about skinny dipping wasn’t made.

I knew she didn’t have a bathing suit and assumed she would just keep her underwear on, so I started getting undressed too. I actually felt like I should say something, so I started to tell her that I hoped my joking about skinny dipping didn’t make her uncomfortable. Literally as I was starting to say this, she reached behind her back and popped the clasp on her bra and threw it on the floor with her other clothes.

I stopped mid-sentence and before I could figure out what to say next she had pushed her panties to the floor and was walking past me to get into the hot tub. I got naked and climbed in with her. We hung out talking for 30 minutes or so and then climbed out and kept talking as we got dressed. When we rejoined my wife a few minutes later it never even came up that we had been skinny dipping.

She was naked in our hot tub a few more times before we moved, and every time it happened it was totally unexpected.

Am I the only one that this happens to?