Rahma's Luscious Love Adventure

"Good morning, Mrs. Johnson."

"Oh, good morning Mr. Robinson! How are you doing today?" I asked politely.

"Eh, I'm okay, not bad," he replied.

We stood there in our urine-smelling mail room for a minute as Mr. Robinson took out his mail and puts it in the cubby. I leaned against the wall and watched him.

Mr. Robinson had been my neighbor for a few years now, but he wasn't really close to me like that. All of my neighbors are just friendly enough to exchange pleasantries with me every day when they see me, except for Mrs. Garcia who was always too busy gossiping with her other friends on the front porch to notice anyone else on the block, and Mrs. Stelly who couldn't even stand up straight due to her horrible osteoporosis so she never came outside at all anymore except to throw garbage bags into the trash cans, which she did while lying down on her stomach on the sidewalk.

Mr. Robinson lives one floor above my condo unit and is married to his wife Amanda with two kids: a boy and a girl who go to public school here in town. He's pretty tall and overweight but otherwise looks like an average suburbanite, as does his wife Amanda who does yoga every morning with me at 7am before work.

"Hey I wanted to ask you something," he said after putting his mail away into his cubby and doing up his pants again at the same time. "My son's birthday is coming up soon and we were thinking about taking him bowling or something like that for a little father-son bonding activity or whatever but I'm not really sure where's good around here."

"Oh, well I don't know what's good around here either but I can ask my husband if he knows," I answered back happily. "Do you want me to ask him right now?"

"Oh no no no no!" Mr. Robinson said quickly as he shook his head frantically side-to-side like someone possessed by demons "That's alright! That's alright! He doesn't have to know... just... ah forget it!"

Mr. Robinson walked away quickly towards his own mailbox and opened it quickly before turning around again towards me with a smile on his face again as if nothing happened earlier at all "So how do you think your husband would do if he tried bowling? He looks like such an athletic man!"