A One Night Stand, Actually A One Day Stand

I was working nights with a security company, guarding the back door of a liquor distributor. Before going in at ten I stopped at this small bar for a beer until it was time to walk across the street. That night a woman at the bar struck up a conversation, said she was a secretary for a lawyer. She drank, drank fast. She started to slur her speech. I excused myself telling her I had to go to work. When I got off the next morning she was standing in front of the bar. She waved at me and I walked over. Said her roommate had locked her out for not paying the rent. It was unwholesome sex.

I was young, went back to college, got married. Now I'm old, older, and that day keeps getting in my head. I've wondered if she ever thought of me.