My Very First Butt Plug (sorry, NSFW-ish)

This is a story I’ve told verbally (somehow saying orally in the same story involving butt plugs just doesn’t sound right) quite a few times, but don’t think I’ve ever put it down on paper.

Years ago, when I was still married, we were invited to a Christmas party. This was during one of our super cold winters in Virginia, and there already was a good amount of snow and ice on the ground. The party was one of those that had a gift exchange, but this was one of those double ones, you were to bring a nice gift, and a gag gift. We had the nice gift, but of course no one remembers those for a story. Unfortunately we didn’t have a gag gift and we were, as usual, running late. My wife, ever the resourceful one said “We’ll just stop off at the adult video store, you can run in and buy some Anal beads.”

So we packed up the kids and headed off to the party with a pit stop at the strip mall adult video store. (We accepted our parent of the year nominations shortly thereafter.)  Since we did have three young, impressionable girls in the car with us, I parked a few stores down and facing away from the store, so the kids wouldn’t see the store and ask any questions. This was a rather busy strip mall, with a few restaurants and clothes stores in a few places and the parking lot was pretty full.

I jumped out saying “Be right back” and headed to said store. As we were running late, I quickly ran in, got my bearings, grabbed some anal beads and then went to the register. But as I stood in line, something caught my eye. On a rack (interesting word in a porn store) by the register was a product called My Very First Butt Plug.  I immediately started laughing and threw the now-less-than-awesome anal beads down for this butt plug. If I could make you believe it, I would add that there was a halo around it and a heavenly choir sound coming from above, as in Monty Python’s “The Holy Grail”.

The reason I found this so funny is I’ve seen some other “My Very First…” products, such as…

And now – My Very First Butt Plug. (Picture not included)  The cashier looked at me with a glance that I interpreted as “Starting slow?” and there may or may not have been an eyebrow raised too, because as I paid for My Very First Butt Plug, I was smiling bigger than Bill Cosby when given a bag of Quaaludes. As I was so excited, and we were in a rush, I ran out of the store, off of the sidewalk, and on to the black pavement of the parking lot.

1. I get the wind knocked out of me. I don’t mean the kind where you lose your breath for a second. I mean the kind where you don’t know if you will ever start breathing again. You MIGHT die. You want to breathe, but you can’t. You can’t breathe. You can’t speak. All you can do is hurt.
2. Because of said hurt, I have no idea if my final breath was a scream, the sound of my body echoed across the parking lot, or I hit so hard that the pavement quaked like when Thor slams his hammer down on the ground and everyone falls over. But whatever it was, I got a lot of attention from other people in the parking lot that fateful day. At least four that I remember came to help me up and see if I was OK. (Clearly strip malls with porn stores have a lot of good Samaritans.)
3. Now – Picture that World War II movie, or any war movie that you love. There’s the tragic hero. He’s about to throw a grenade. He’s shot. He slumps down, and as he takes his last dying breath, the un-pinned grenade slowly rolls out of his hand to the horror of everyone around him. Except in this case, I’m the tragic hero. And the grenade is actually a My Very First Butt Plug rolling out of my now unclenched hand and the plain paper bag. Right as the people from #2 above arrive.

“Are you alright?”

“Should we call the hospital?”

“Who are you here with?”

None of which I can answer. I can barely move. I can’t breathe. All I can do is slightly angle my head to see the woman pick up My Very First Butt Plug, as my inward voice does the movie slow motion “NNNOOOOOooooo!” . She holds it up to look at it, looks back at me, then gets the bag, puts it in the bag and hen slowly walks towards me, not having trouble with the ice at all. I use my emotion and show in my eyes what she needs to know because I still can’t speak or breathe. My emotion filled eyes communicated,  much like when Lassie would stare with her soulful eyes and everyone would immediately know.

“It’s not mine! Well I bought it yes, but as a GIFT! A GAG GIFT!  My wife and kids are right over there! We’re going to a Christmas Party!!! It’s really not mine.”

She spoke back with her eyes “Perv” as she placed My Very First Butt Plug on my paralyzed chest.

After a few moment, I was eventually able to first sit, with My Very First Butt Plug now safely rebagged in my lap, and then to my feet, where I whisper “Thank You” with the last of my dignity to the small crowd.  I then hobble over to the car,  open the door and get in, and my wife says, “What took so long?”