She Was on a Layover

Michael sent this nice story about a chance encounter of the very best kind:

A number of years ago, I had a job that required a week’s worth of training at a hotel near my company’s operations center in Northern Kentucky. The training started first thing on Monday morning, so I flew there and checked into the hotel on Sunday afternoon. After dinner with a few of my co-workers that evening, I went back to my room to get ready for bed.

Not being able to sleep, I decided to head down to the pool and get in a swim before going to sleep. It was about 10 or 11pm on a Sunday night, so there was no one else in there (or so I thought). After swimming in the pool for a few minutes, I decided to go relax in the hot tub.

A couple of minutes after I settled into the hot tub, a young woman in her early to mid-20’s came out of the sauna by the pool (I hadn’t bothered to look in there since I am not a sauna fan). She was fairly tall, blonde, and had a slim athletic build. She was wearing two small towels wrapped around her, one around her waste and one around her breasts. I thought it was a little odd that she got in the pool to swim while wearing the towels.

After she swam for a few minutes, she got out of the pool near me and I realized that she wasn’t wearing anything under the towels. She came over to the hot tub and asked me if she could join me. Of course, I said yes.

We started talking and I found out she was from Germany and was on her way back home after visiting some friends in California. Her flight had been rerouted due to some bad weather and she was having to wait until the next day to resume her trip home.

As we talked, she was having trouble keeping the towels on her because of the jets from the hot tub. When I mentioned that, she said that she only had her carry-on bag and her bikinis were with the rest of her luggage. She then laughed and said that if she were back home in Germany, she wouldn’t have to worry about the towels and could just swim in the nude without a problem.

Of course, that piqued my curiosity, as I had been wanting to take off my shorts since I got there. I told her that if it didn’t bother her, it wouldn’t bother me if she just took off the towels. When I said that, she looked around, smiled, and said “That would be awesome. Thank you for understanding. Do you like to swim in the nude?”

I told her that I enjoyed doing it, but only did so when I knew others wouldn’t be offended by it. At that, she took off the towels and I removed my shorts. Over the next hour, we had a really nice time chatting and going back and forth between the hot tub and the pool.

At one point, while we were sitting in the hot tub, a security guard poked his head in the door at the other end of the room and told us the pool room would be closing in fifteen minutes at midnight. Either he hadn’t noticed that we were naked or he just didn’t care (who knows, maybe he had been enjoying watching her on the security cameras). After he left, we realized how late it was and that we needed to get to bed (to our own rooms).

The next morning, I was standing in the lobby talking with a few of my coworkers when my new friend (I never did get her name) came by. She gave me a hug and told me how much she enjoyed meeting me the night before. I wished her well and she headed out to the airport shuttle. My coworkers were pretty surprised that this stunning blonde woman had come up to me like that and pressed me for more details. Of course, I told them that nothing happened and I slept alone the night before.

Thanks for sharing that, Michael! It always amazes me the kinds of experiences one can have if you just go with the flow and accept the serendipities of life.

-Jen