The day before Valentine’s Day Nils got a call from his neighbor Melanie asking him if he could come over right away. “It’s kind of an emergency,” she said. “Bring your camera.”

The request for a camera set Nils’ mind a bit at ease. Likely he wouldn’t be called upon to chase bats from Melanie’s attic or unclog a stopped-up toilet. Camera in hand, he knocked on Melanie’s door ten minutes later.

“How can I help?” he asked.

“You know how my boyfriend Doug is in the Philippines? Well, I just realized that it’s already tomorrow there today.”

Nils nodded.

“That means it’s Valentine’s Day there.”

Nils nodded again.

“So this morning this chair was delivered.” Melanie pointed to the chair, standing alone in the middle of the living room. “It’s from Doug. A Valentine’s present. There was a note. He said he can’t wait to try out this sexy chair with me. He said if I wanted to I could break it in.”

“Break it in?” questioned Nils.

“Yeah. So I thought I’d send him some sexy pictures of the chair.”

Nils looked at the chair. He looked at Melanie.

“Me sitting in the chair,” Melanie said. “Breaking it in.”

“How would you do that?” Nils asked.

“It would be easier to show you than to explain,” Melanie said.

“And you want me to take pictures while you show me?” Nils asked.

“If you wouldn’t mind.” Melanie was already taking off her clothes.

For the next fifteen minutes Nils took pictures of Melanie breaking in the chair.

After Melanie recovered from her orgasm, Nils asked if she thought the chair was sufficiently broken in.

“Not quite,” she answered.