I was at an out-of-town tech show where Microsoft was rolling out new products when I heard a voice say "Mr. Piecenick", I turned to see one of my daughter's best friends from high school, Amy. I don't think I had seen her since she had braces, but that was a long time ago and she had certainly turned into a beautiful young lady. We did some shop talk, she was with a large company, I just had my small firm with a handful of techs. Then she invited me to go to dinner with her group, "it's lavish and my company is paying" she said.
I went back to my hotel and then met them at the restaurant for dinner. Amy sat next to me, there was a lot of tech talk, of course most of the techs were guys, Amy and one other were the only females at the table. I could tell that half the guys there had a crush on Amy, she introduced me as the father of a HS friend and that she had a major crush on me since she was 14. That embarrassed me a bit, but then Amy's hands started wandering under the table, of course I didn't stop her, but if I had to get up I might have knocked the table over.
When the dinner was over and people were going to their room, Amy lagged behind (everyone but me had rooms in the hotel the restaurant was in), she whispered, give me 10 minutes then you can come to my room for a nightcap. The bad news is that told her that wouldn't be a good idea, I had to go back to my room and kick myself for a while for turning her down. I've just been married too long.
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