Chapter 4

The following morning Nick couldn’t help but think of last night’s happening with Amy. It was a somewhat erotic memory and he wondered if there would be a repeat but the ball was going to be in her court for that to happen.

At the office Monday morning one of the patients was Bill Gordon. Nick could see that Bill walked with a very distinct limp which he said was because of an injury sustained while in the service. He was at the office because on a prior visit there was a black spot on his leg that was excised. The biopsy showed that this spot was squamous cell carcinoma. Now he was back because a larger area would need to be excised to make sure all of it was gone.

Nick knew from the chart that Bill was fifty seven years of age and had retired from teaching. He asked Bill why he retired. Bill said they had offered him an early retirement option which gave him a beefed up pension and coupled with his Army disability pension it was too good of a deal to pass up. He would be making what he was netting out after deductions when he was working without having to work. For some extra money he said he would do some substitute teaching.

“Now that you are retired what are you doing to keep busy?” asked Nick in starting to do the excising.

“Right now I do a little fishing and am starting to help Doug and Ron when the kids from the hospital go out on the pontoon boat. Initially when I retired to help past the time I was writing what I considered to be erotic stories and posting them on the web. I am going to stop doing that right after I post this last story I am working on.”

“Can I ask you why you are stopping?”

“It’s because I am disappointed in the ratings being given by readers to my stories. When I started writing a few of my stories received some very high ratings. There were also a few nice comments sent by some of the readers which I really appreciated receiving. Now my feel-good, happy-ending, less- sex stories apparently don’t cut it anymore. I see where there are some extremely low ratings being given by readers who never take the time to say why they rate a story so low. Less than five percent of the people who read my stories vote, so a few very low ratings can have a big overall effect on the story’s rating which obviously I would like to see rated higher. Rating a story unfairly is easy to do especially if you feel your you know what doesn’t smell,” said Bill.

“Some of these low raters I suspect want a longer more detailed graphic description of sex in my stories for them to read and masturbate at the same time. Those raters can just kiss my ass and they can abuse themselves by reading other writers’ stories or watching sex videos because I am not going to change my style of writing. This drop in my story ratings has eliminated any desire I have for writing stories. It just isn’t worth my time to be doing this writing.”

“I will say that I am not alone in what I think about these low ratings because at times I have seen other writers express similar concerns on receiving low ratings. At any rate now that I have started helping the kids, I realize it is a better use my time and it tells me I am making the right decision to stop writing. I also plan to volunteer some time at the hospital.”

In hearing what Bob was saying Nick thought that low story ratings would discourage writers from further story writing. This would result in a reduction of the number of stories being written. He wondered if these raters realized their ratings were having that effect. The high number of readers not voting for whatever reason could also be contributing to Bill’s concern since by not voting they weren’t supporting the writers of the stories they enjoyed reading.

Nick finished doing this excising procedure on Bill and told him to come back in six months for a follow-up visit. This telling a patient to come back in six months had become an automatic request that Nick made because he had long learned that this was the way you increase the number of appointments being made.

What became the highlight of the week for Nick occurred two days later when he picked up the file that was next to the door in preparation for going into an examination room. The folder indicated that the next patient was Dana Bridgman

In entering the room he observed Dana sitting there wearing a white hospital type gown. Rising she smiled at Nick and extended her hand. He shook it and gave her the standard line of “What brings you here today?”

“Based on what happened with my mother I thought it was time for me to get an exam. From what I can see there is nothing that concerns me but I can’t really see my back so that is why I’m here.”

Nick asked her to remove the gown and she did. She was wearing a bra and bikini panties which was comparable to the covering she would have on if she was wearing a small swimming suit. The bra and panties were not the standard plain issue white color type but were a lavender color with some embroidery. That she looked good wearing this lingerie was a definite understatement. To say his heart beat a little faster in seeing her in this undressed state was a given.

He gave her a good looking over in doing the exam and besides liking what he saw he did noticed a small spot on her back. He thought that was probably nothing but in view of her mother’s history he told her about this spot.

Nick said to play safe he would like to remove it and she said okay. He asked her to lie down on her stomach on the exam bench. She did and he excised the spot. While he was doing this he couldn’t help but notice her nice butt with its pronounced curvature. He left the room saying she could get dressed and he would be back.

Ordinarily his nurse would come back to check that the patient was dressed and ready to leave. The nurse would point them to the exit. In Dana’s case he made an exception since he wanted to do this.

Nick was back in a few minutes and could see Dana was dressed and ready to leave.

“Like I said we will phone you with the results which I expect will show that there is nothing wrong. I was wondering that if you aren’t seeing anyone, I would like to take you out to dinner.”

“Presently I am not seeing anyone but let me ask you, are you hitting on me?” she said with a smile on her face.

With no hesitation on his part Nick said, “Yes I am.”

Dana laughed and said that she does get asked out fairly often but Dan is the first man to admit that he was hitting on her. She said fine and wrote her address down on the back of a business card and handed it to him. They agreed on a six o’clock time for Saturday.

Nick was a little anxious for Saturday to come and it finally did. In her opening the door to her condo he could see she was ready and that she looked very nice. Heck he thought, every time he sees her she looks nice.

Instead of going to the club for dinner they went to Parenti’s. He picked this restaurant because of its atmosphere and to him it turned out to be a good decision. It made for a nice evening to be dining with an attractive and intelligent lady.

The status of the construction of the condo building was discussed. Dana said that so far there were no problems and they were on schedule. She did ask Nick if his furniture items were in storage. He told her there were none as he had sold his condo as a turnkey.

“For some reason I don’t envision you being a person who enjoys shopping. By that I mean going to stores and picking out major furniture items let alone pot and pans, dishes, sheets and pillow cases just to name a few of the items you will need to furnish your unit to make it livable,” said Dana.

“Very perceptive on your part in that is something I will not enjoy spending the time in doing.”