textfiles/sex/EROTICA/B/benched.txt

Archive-name: Bondage/benched.txt
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Archive-title: Benched


        My girlfriend always seemed to enjoy seeing just how much she could
get away with doing some form of our bondage in public.  She does this
partly because she finds it fun, mostly because she knows it drives me out
of my tree.  Usually, I'm able to fast-talk my way out of potentially
embarrassing situations with Mundanes, but yesterday she very nearly got me
fired.  

        Yesterday afternoon we had lunch together.  Afterward, she
accompanied me back to my place of work.  I thought this slightly unusual,
since she had never before expressed an interest in my work (electronic
engineering), but it didn't occur to me that she had something planned.  

        We arrived at my workbench, where I'm currently trying to figure
out why the $&%@*! board on which I'm working is not performing the way I
designed it.  
        "Is this where you work?" she asked.  
        "At the moment," I replied.  

        I reached over to turn on the scope, thereby completely failing to
notice the huge studded black leather collar she produced from her purse.
Before I could even blink (it's amazing the speed at which she can do this),
she had locked the collar snugly around my neck, and locked the end of the
six-foot jack chain to the center of the bench (where there just happened
to be a mounting hole, dammit).  I turned to face her in utter disbelief,
mouth agape.  
        "I'll be back for you at five," she said.  
  "HAVE YOU GONE COMPLETELY WACKO!!?!?" I yelled in a hushed voice.
"HOW THE HELL AM I GOING TO EXPLAIN THIS???" 
        "You'll think of something," she said, dropping the keys into her
cleavage.  "You always do." 
        "But suppose I have to go to the bathroom," I countered.  
        "Don't give me that," she said.  "I've seen you go for a whole day
without visiting the bathroom." 
        "But...," I tried to say.  
        "SHHH!  The subject is closed.  I'll be back at five.  Bye." 

        She turned and left, against my hushed protests.  I sat in panic and
tried to think out my situation.  I tried to think of all the people who
might visit.  Most of my co-workers were friends who knew that my
girlfriend and I were a bit odd, so this shouldn't surprise them.  But I
had *no* idea what I was going to say if one of my bosses came in.  I
checked my watch to see how long I would have to endure this ignominy.
13:30 (I'm a military time weenie).  "Three and a half hours," I thought.
I heaved a sigh, and got to work, such as I could.  

        As it happened, three of my co-workers visited for what-not.  All of
them immediately noticed the collar (it would be pretty hard not to), and
asked if it was my girlfriend's idea.  I said yes.  They asked what I would
say if my supervisor saw it.  I said I hadn't the faintest idea.  

        One of the aforementioned colleagues took the bench next to me, and
after a few remarks (and a question as to where he could get a collar like
the one I had), settled down to work in silence.  

        After some time, I checked my watch.  16:40.  "Gee, I just might
make it through this after all," I thought.  I was even beginning to get
a handle on the problem with the #%^*@! board on which I was working.  Murphy
must have been standing right behind me reading my thoughts, for not more
than two minutes later one of my bosses entered the room.  And not just any
boss.  Noooooooo.  This was Mr. Narrowminded himself.  This was the guy who
took Lifespring *and* became a born-again fundamentalist.  How he came to
have the power of hire-and-fire over us is one of the Great Mysteries of
The Universe.  We avoided this guy at all costs.  

        His eyes fell upon me immediately.  A few picoseconds later, he saw
the collar around my neck in all its splendor.  "My life is over," I
thought.  I still hadn't thought of a plausible explanation for this.  Mr.
Solderbrain (the name we called him behind his back; a corruption of his
real name) started to walk slowly and deliberately over to me, his eyes
fixed on the collar.  Fifteen agonizing seconds later, he was standing next
to me.  I thought the guy sitting next to me was going to have a siezure
stifling all his giggles.  I continued to work, acting as though there were
nothing the least bit unusual about my predicament.  

        Finally, he spoke.  
        "What.  The.  HELL!  Is.  That??!" he said.  

        I don't know how I thought of what I said.  In fact, I'm pretty sure
I didn't know what I was going to say until just as I was saying it.  I'm
even more amazed that Solderbrain actually bought it and didn't fire me on
the spot.  

        I turned to face him calmly, with total nonchalance, exuding
complete confidence in what I was about to say, even though I didn't know
what it was yet.  I didn't even miss a beat.  
        "Grounding strap," I said, and returned to work.  

        The guy next to me fell off his chair and nearly died laughing.
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