Real Life Stories - October 2014

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He then said something about being rather busy at the moment but that he could probably arrange for someone else to run me home. Taking the bull by the horns I said, quite brazenly for me at the time, "No I would much rather it was you because I wanted to ask you about the suspender belt you’re wearing."

He blushed the most spectacular shade of red I have ever seen, his ears went almost beetroot in color, and he stammered some nonsense about everyone at the rugby club doing it for a bet. I replied along the lines of "I think we both know that’s not true, see you in about five minutes then," and returned to my desk. I was elated when he appeared a couple of minutes later with his coat on, I remember to this day with perfect clarity the exquisite thrill of knowing that for the first time in my life I had a man completely under my thumb.