Read The Old Stories Page 9

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  "Hey, do you know that Eiffel invented the garter belt?"

  "Bullshit!"

  "No, really! I read it somewhere. His wife complained about her stockings constantly falling off so he decided to solve her problem."

  "Was that before or after he built the tower?"

  "I have no idea. The text I read wasn’t about towers."

  They laughed.

  "Why don’t you suggest that Maya buy some garter belts and stockings?"

  "Are you insane!? Do you know what she’d say to me?"

  "What?"

  "I shit in your stocking!"

  Laughter.

  "No, really. Ask her. What? If that turns you on so much…"

  "Yea right! She’d think I was some sort of maniac."