eagle024
12-16-2011, 08:46 PM
So I board my flight home today and get seated in the window seat of the exit row, where there’s lots of extra leg room. Right before the flight takes off, the last passenger enters and takes the aisle seat. My travel neighbor was a 6-foot-something, somewhat preppy looking college student with phenomenal blue eyes and a vintage rolex draped on his wrist. He appeared to be returning home from a backpacking trip. After he sits down, he kicks off his loafers, and in an unintentional teasing gesture, nudges them over into the floor space of the vacant middle seat (in my head, I imagine him saying “go ahead boy, you can play with them!”). I followed his lead and kicked mine off, leaving them directly next to his. He then stretches out his legs and places his big feet in my field of vision – immediately dissuading me of any notion of getting work done for the next 7 hours! Draped in brown dress socks, his feet were long with nice arches, about average in width, and a fairly round toe profile.
My mind started racing…there was no way I would be bold enough to even graze his foot, but the shoes were an open target for some play. As the meal service began, I casually lowered the trays of both my seat and the middle seat, and my neighbor followed suit – effectively shielding the floor from clear sight. With a blanket over my lap, I stretched my leg over to the middle seat where I struggled to reach his shoe (damn my short legs and the extra leg room!). I loosened my seat belt, sat forward and finally clutched the heel of his left shoe with the big toe of my right foot and slowly dragged it closer to me. After chasing down my “prize,” I put my left foot inside and started sliding it backwards and forwards and side to side, wondering what size shoe he wore, guessing it was an 11 or 12.
But then I got nervous. Can he see what’s going on over the tray? Can he see what’s going on in my pants? As best as I could tell, he was too fully engrossed in a TV show to notice the entertainment that was taking place on the floor. My heart racing, I slowly slide the shoe back to its spot as our meals arrive.
To be continued...
My mind started racing…there was no way I would be bold enough to even graze his foot, but the shoes were an open target for some play. As the meal service began, I casually lowered the trays of both my seat and the middle seat, and my neighbor followed suit – effectively shielding the floor from clear sight. With a blanket over my lap, I stretched my leg over to the middle seat where I struggled to reach his shoe (damn my short legs and the extra leg room!). I loosened my seat belt, sat forward and finally clutched the heel of his left shoe with the big toe of my right foot and slowly dragged it closer to me. After chasing down my “prize,” I put my left foot inside and started sliding it backwards and forwards and side to side, wondering what size shoe he wore, guessing it was an 11 or 12.
But then I got nervous. Can he see what’s going on over the tray? Can he see what’s going on in my pants? As best as I could tell, he was too fully engrossed in a TV show to notice the entertainment that was taking place on the floor. My heart racing, I slowly slide the shoe back to its spot as our meals arrive.
To be continued...