A Minor problem . . . cont'd
I went down to the beach and got a couple of lounges arranged in our favorite area next to the sun deck, then went for a dip. Our usual practice is to hang out on the beach for a while, swim, catch a few rays, toss a football or Frisbee around, then go for a walk and beers later. When I got back from my swim, Fabs was laid out on his lounge.
“That was a nasty piece of business back up there in your room, bro,” I said. “Really nasty.”
He shrugged his shoulders and said, “Yah, well . . . sh!t happens.”
“You can say that again.”
“Okay, okay. I feel bad for the maids, so let’s just forget about it, alright?”
Fabs was becoming annoyed.
I wasn’t going to let it go that easily. “Yeah, well if you want my advice I think you should back off on the chicken and rice a little for a couple of days, maybe just have a quarter instead of your usual half,” I said. “You know, cut down on the bulk, give your system a chance to self-regulate a little.”
Fabs sighed and shook his head.
I continued, “Maybe you should consider implementing a ‘safety-flush’ procedure – you know, like, reach back and flush when you’re about half done.”
Fabs gave me a withering look; he knew that this wasn’t the last that he’d hear of the plugged toilet episode. He propped up his lounge and got into a comfortable surveillance position. Then he began scanning the passing beach traffic.
I leaned back on my lounge and closed my eyes. Fabs regularly comments on the women passing by. If he makes low, lecherous sounds, I’ll pop up and have a gander. I think I dozed off a little bit, but I came around when I heard Fabs mutter, “There goes ‘The Hogs’, I hope they don’t spot us.” ‘The Hogs’ was the moniker that he’d branded the porcine quartet from ‘Eye-Oh-Whaaa’ with. I didn’t bother rising from my lounge.
I dozed a little more – I was awakened when Fabs uttered: “Whoaa Baby! Fart and give us a clue.” I was familiar with this line – one of Fab’s most cutting missives, exclusively reserved for when he spots a particularly corpulent woman waddling down the beach.
Okay, I know when the guys read this they will burst out laughing. Some women will read it and exclaim, “What a disgusting pig!” or words to that effect. But let me assure you ladies, this is how men talk, and worse, when we are sure no women are listening. And let’s be realistic, I’m quite sure that women have some choice thoughts, if not verbal comments, when they spot an old, fat, bald guy with a big beer belly hanging over his Speedo, sporting a carpet of thick, black hair on his back. Am I right? And I can only imagine what women say when that same old fat dude has the hand of a pretty, young Jamaican girl in his clammy grasp.
I didn’t respond to Fabs comment and I drifted off again (yes, I nap a lot).
When I came to, I saw that Fabs wasn’t on his lounge.
I sat up and looked around, it was one of those perfect Negril afternoons; sunny with a few puffy white clouds, the sun spangling of the surface of a sea ruffled by a cool breeze blowing in, little waves washing the shore. Ahhh! Like I said earlier, I’ve been coming to Negril for a long time, but afternoons like that never get old.
I let my gaze drift to the south and that’s when I spotted Fabs. He was about five lounges over and he was rubbing sunscreen onto the bare chest of an attractive young blonde woman.
WTF?
I closed my eyes, took a few deep breaths and opened them again. No. I hadn’t been imagining it - Fabs was slowly massaging lotion onto the chest of a young woman who was clad only in skimpy bikini bottoms.
I know it sounds juvenile, but . . . ‘IT’S NOT FAIR!’ Fabs never has to work for it. He meets a woman and he’s immediately on third base (with no outs and a big RBI man coming up) – it’s like he’s gonna score. The rest of us poor suckers; we stand at the plate, there’s two out, the count is 3 and 2, and Nolan Ryan’s clone is glowering at us from the mound. There’s no way we’re going to get to touch them all.
Fabs was rubbing this blonde down and he was really working the lotion in. He had moved up to her shoulders and neck. As I watched him I noticed that most of the other people on the beach in front of White Sands were gawking too. I couldn’t blame them either, just watching the blonde sitting there topless by herself would have been enough, but with the added spectacle of Fabs lubing her up, well, a person can only resist so much gratuitous titillation.
Turned out she was German or Norwegian or one of those Scandinavian types who walk around topless all the time and sit naked in communal saunas, so it was no big deal for her to have a complete stranger rub lotion into her chest.
Riiiight.
Anyhow, Fabs stuck with her and I went for a walk. When I got back to White Sands their gear was still on their lounges but both of them had disappeared. I looked up and down the beach and in the water. They were nowhere to be seen.
They were conspicuous by their absence, one might say.
I'm in my room now and it's 5:00pm and it's pouring rain. Uggg - hope it stops soon, maybe go to Fabs's room and see if he's up for a beer in town somewhere . . .