THE PICNIC
Date: 2/9/2017,
Categories:
First Time
Mature
Taboo
Author: brianbigdogsmith
... busboy removed the wine goblets from the table and replaced them with fluted champagne glasses. Our waiter made a decent show of opening our bottle of Dom Perignon (with very little cork popping sound) and pouring it for us before setting the black and dark gold labeled bottle back down into the silver ice bucket. "Enjoy," he encouraged as he bowed away. "Mm," Ellen said as she tried her appetizer. "This is so good!" "Really?" I said. "I was a little afraid to try a snail but it's much like a clam, isn't it?" Having never actually tried one myself I used my slender fork to select a black specimen from one of the deep dimples in my serving dish and tasted it. It WAS quite good; lightly chewy and buttery with just a hint of a garlic flavor. "Yes, it IS good," I said. "You mean YOU never had it before and you ordered it for ME?" she scolded. "I'm afraid that's true, s*s. I'm mostly a McDonald's kind of guy." "Not tonight," she said, and smiled at me before taking a sip from her champagne glass. "Tonight you're my suave, sophisticated hero, okay?" "You got it," I said and then took a sip of champagne myself. We enjoyed our escargot and then our delicious soup that was steaming and savory with seafood flavors and sherry. Our salads were no less spectacular but, halfway through, we ran out of wine. "Can we get more?" Ellen asked. "Call the waiter. What's his name?" "I don't ...
... know," I answered truthfully. "I didn't catch it if he gave it." I grinned at her devilishly now, like I used to do when I was planning some mischief for us to get into when we were k**s. "Let's call him Basil, okay?" "Basil?" "Yeah. He looks like a Basil, doesn't he? And with that accent..." "You're incorrigible, Danny!" "Oh Basil," I called, loudly in his direction. "Shut UP, Danny. He'll hear you!" Whether he heard me or not, the waiter brought a second bottle of champagne and then the lobsters, which were huge and pre-cracked for us so that all we needed to do was pull the shells apart to get at the white, succulent meat. "My God this is good!" Ellen gasped as she ate her first forkful of the buttered delicacy. "Beats a Big Mac, huh?" We ate in silence for a time (eating lobster requiring all your attention) but then Ellen suddenly said, "Phooey!" and dropped her lobster cracker down on the pile of red, discarded shells on her plate. "What?" "I can't get the meat out of this silly claw," she complained. "Oh, here," I said, reaching over and taking it from her. "I'll get it out for you, okay?" And I proceeded to do just that, extracting a large chunk and then leaning to put it on her plate. "No," she said. "No?" "Feed me, Danny." "What?" She didn't answer. She just opened her beautiful mouth wide, on the other side of the table, ...