Musings of a Decorative Ham Man
By Chris Vitiello
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My first automobile was a 1978 Neptune Conquest which I purchased myself from funds accrued working summer night shifts at a rural lumber yard. It was orange with an exceedingly flat hatchback, bronze colored rims and a deep chasm in the dash where a glove box had once been. “We took the glovebox out years ago,” said the yokel, who had left the vehicle exposed to the elements in a field of alfalfa. “My wife, who is dead, would not stand for it. She was not one for hidden compartments.” He spit and then ate a pickle which he produced from his pocket. “But she is dead now and we forded a river to take her home.”
I could no longer tolerate him. “Take the money,” I said, as the fury mounted. “Help me get this to the road.”
A few hours later, I pulled into a popular area taco stand. Though I later taught myself impenetrable methods of self-control, at that time I was young and concupiscent. I leaned against the car and some girls came up in short dungarees, rolled up in-line with the panties.
“Got a new car, Chris?” said one, a brunette named Shelley with large aviator glasses that I knew instantly to be fake. “It’s got a flat back. Flattest I’ve ever seen.” She was aroused.
“It’s a 1978 Neptune Conquest,” I said, hating myself for it. But it immediately impressed them all as I knew it would.
“Let’s take a ride,” said Shelley. “Do you know Twin Carnal Trees Drive-In? They’re showing Thergos 2015 tonight. It’s erotic.”
And so it was. A pornographic drive-in theatre nestled in a shallow grove and Shelley’s hand down my fashionable gym shorts. I leaned back and looked up at the dome light. It was cracked. I silently cursed the yokel. I reached down and attempted to move the seat back. It wouldn’t budge. Nor would it incline. I would get even.
I focused on the film. There was a man dressed like a clown in a dirt clearing and some shabby wooden structures that looked like deer blinds. Suddenly, there would be an unannounced oral scene. It was very confusing. But I moved like the actor and before long there was climax. Shelley asked for a napkin.
“There are only thin ones,” I noted. “Even when stacked together, they provide little in the way of absorbency,” I added.
We watched the rest of the film in silence.
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