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Short Chat with an Average
Guy
Truck INT.
east St. Louis,
A:
That’s exactly right: Anything said
in the truck stays in the truck.
You can’t tell anybody about this,
OK? ’Cause I’d be in big
trouble with my wife.
Q: —
A: Well,
now see just drive along here on Smith
street and if you see ’em standing
there, you kinda stare ’em down and
if they kinda stare right back and stuff,
then you know they’re hookin’.
Usually I just pull into a parking lot
and ask them if they need a ride say,
"You need a ride?"
Q: —
A: It is
a good idea, ’cause if they’re
cops—a buddy of mine told me that if
you ask them straight up if they’re
cops then they have to tell you. Usually
they’ll just show you their tits or
grab your crotch. Not grab it, just put
their hand on it. They’ll just show
you their tits to show you they’re
not wearing a wire or anything.
Q: —
A: Well, I
believe him.
Q: —
A: Yeah,
next thing you know, it’d be in the
newspaper "---- and ---- were
arrested for soliciting prostitutes"
or something like that. So I ask 'em
every time, "Are you a cop?"
and they just show you their tits or
something. And usually—I’ve
only done this a couple of
times—usually they just get right in
the truck and you drive around and they
suck you off and you give 'em the twenty
bucks and that’s it. You go home
satisfied. Well, actually, they make you
give’em the money up front—
Q: —
A: Nope
that’s not one. OK, let’s just
turn around and make one more pass and
then head home. No, usually, if you
see—if they’re standing alone
at this time of night, they’re
hookin’. See, you’d just see a
girl standing on the corner, like right
there on that corner or something, and
you just stare her down and if she stares
you down, then you just pull over.
Usually they’ll ask you if you date
or something, like, "Do you
date?" And I ask ‘em if
they’d like a ride and they just hop
in. They’re real eager to get in the
car. Like right away.
[Silence]
One time I
got this real young girl, over on Jones
Street—she was like 19 and real good
looking, like the best she’d
probably look in her whole life, before
she gets all dumpy and shit at
23—and she was just talkin’ up
a storm. I wanted to say, "Look,
little girl, I don’t care about your
problems. Why don’t you just get me
off and we’ll get this over
with?"
Q: —
A: Yeah, I
figured you’d be thinking that. See,
I got this buddy who was telling me about
fucking this girl and he said that he
didn’t feel like it was cheating on
his wife because … well, he
satisfied her needs. That’s
the thing, see, the first two, three
years of marriage are great. You’re
getting laid whenever you want and
there’s romance and stuff. But then,
it just kinda tapers off. Now I probably
sleep with my wife every couple-three
weeks if I’m lucky.
Q: —
A: I know,
I know. It’s not enough.
And she’s fine if we don’t have
sex very often. I think it’s just a
woman thing—like part of their
makeup or something, you know? She works
pretty hard and has a lot of stress at
her job, so I understand, but still
… I’d be happy if we had sex
every other day. That’d be fine with
me, I think. But it’s hard,
’cause we got the kid and all. Now,
the kid’s taking a nap and I’m
like, "You wanna go in the
bedroom?" And she’s like,
"Not now." But the first couple
of years of marriage were good.
[Silence]
Q: —
A: Yeah,
it is different, ’cause I satisfy
her. She just doesn’t satisfy me. I
mean, if I ask her, sometimes she’ll
give me a blow job or something. I guess
it’d be all right if we played games
or roles or something like that. I
don’t know. It’s different,
though. I wish I’d come home
sometime and she’d be standing there
naked waiting for me or in the bedroom
with something all sexy on.
But
that’s the thing about this, see,
you can get off and go home and it’s
OK. «
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