Jun 25, 2009 21:50
She's twenty, slender, pale. She learned to exploit her sex when other girls were still figuring out which fingers to stick in it. Stripper at 18, retired now. She's white; whiter than white, like White-Out white. She has a dirty laugh and she laughs at dirty jokes.
"You wanna see something disgusting," she says, from the top of the stairs.
She was mopping upstairs, I was mopping downstairs. Those aren't euphemisms.
"Oh man, don't get your flaps out," I said.
She said 'Ha no.' Like really, it was a 'ha' laugh and then a spoken 'no'.
"It's minging," she says.
I sludged up the stairs, thinking of new dirty jokes. I don't know any new dirty jokes, really. There aren't any. All dirty jokes are old. Though time & circumstance provide them all new play areas, every day.
"Check this out," she says, pointing to her breasts. Redundantly.
"Uh-huh."
"They're all minging and that," she says.
She pulls the 'U' of her vest top down further than I'd even dared to look. I can't see her nipples. There isn't much else I care to can't see.
"I'm sweating!" she says. I remember earlier, joking, calling her lazy, saying she never got a sweat on unless it was with a doorman. Now she has a sweat on. She's proving it.
"My boobs are all sweaty! In't that mingin'?"
"Yes," I agree, "A young woman with sweat glistening breasts is well minging."
It wasn't though. It wasn't minging one bit. It wasn't the Ark of the Covenant either, though.