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It was like that scene from the Kevin Kline movie In and Out. You know, where the three women, who’ve known each other all their lives, have a few glasses of wine for afternoon tea and decide it’s time for True Confessions. The first confesses that the recipe she’s famous for at school fetes or whatever she actually stole from someone else. The second confesses that her late husband had three testicles (which grosses everyone out.) But the third trumps them all with the statement “I hated the Bridges of Madison County.”
Like I said, it was a bit like that. Except Liz’s statement that trumped us all, after a bottle of excellent chardonnay each, was “I’ve had sex with my dog!”
We all went a bit quiet. Helen giggled. “You’re joking, right? You’re just saying that to shock us.” Liz took another gulp of wine and looked at Helen defiantly. “Do you want to hear the details, or not?” she asked.
Helen and I looked at each other, then at Liz. We both nodded.
“You can’t possibly be talking about Scruff,” I said. Scruff was Liz’s dog. A cute little Maltese Terrier, though a bit yappy, he just wasn’t big enough. Anyway, I was pretty sure he was neutered. God, I couldn’t believe I was starting to sift through Liz’s possible canine lovers. The whole thing was bizarre. It involved concepts that had never crossed my mind before.
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