ANS 01: Kimberly Life as an Absolute

Once the elevator stopped on the second floor and the majority of everyone in there exited, I followed Mary to a row of portable tables to get the both of us signed in and get the schedule and some other important paperwork.

Soon we both were standing over by some vendors and I was looking over the schedule. Then she said, "I think we should get some seats in the main exhibit section first."

"Sure," I said as I was pushing some paper into my bag.

Then just as we were just about to be seated she said, "Kim, I think you might know one of the speakers." I looked back at the schedule that was handed to us a few minutes ago and noticed one of my college buddies' names. I just looked at Mary and asked her if she was talking about the same person and after I pointed out the Paris Watson name she told me that was the person that she was referring to. I didn't have the chance to ask her because before I could four individuals started walking onto the stage along with Paris.

Before long all of the lights in the section were dimmed and I started paying attention to the speaker as well as watching the side door to see if anyone slipped in dressed like me.

I know so far no one has mentioned or made any comments that I could hear about my lack of outfit. But, I kind of wish there were others here that were as willing to ditch their clothes and go au naturel.

As you know from my last rambling, I wasn't paying any attention to what she was saying until I heard the guy speaking mention Paris' name and she started walking toward the podium wearing what looked like a silk robe-like dress. I couldn't tell from where I was sitting. Only that the closer she got to the podium the more of her cleavage started showing until her left nipple was on the verge of coming out. Then her left breast came out of her outfit, and you could hear the whole room make this huge gasping sound which for a second was almost as loud as clapping.

All I know is after the room started settling down; Mary leaned over to me and said, "No one made that reaction when we walked in." I just looked at her and shrugged my shoulders as I turned to Paris up there before the podium with her breast hanging out.

Then she picked up the microphone and put it back in the holder and said, "Welcome everybody to the Regional Real Estate Conference. Some of you might have noticed my little wardrobe malfunction." After she said that some jerk made a whistling noise and some laughter. "Well, I can see some of you might be ready for what I am going to say next. I can see from the way you all reacted when my breast fell out you might not be ready for this."

I just smiled when she moved away from the podium and let her dress fall to the stage and very casually picked it up and turned around and handed it to one of the others on the stage.

"The reason that I am now standing up here on the stage before you is to show you what is slowly becoming expected wear in our profession as well as some of your customers. Now I want everybody in this audience that has in the last month been dressed like me or have had one or more customers who were naked to please stand."

As she said that I was fully expecting Mary and me to be the only ones in the audience standing. Then I looked around and saw several people in the room start standing up. And after I'd say either ten to twenty were standing up we joined them.

"Jack," as she turned around, "would you like to say something?" As he was standing up I noticed that he was looking directly at me.

He then went up to Paris and hugged her and said, "I see that at least two of you besides Paris decided on the natural dress, now how many of you didn't bring anything else to wear?"

All I know is after he said that I wanted to crawl out of there right then and there when Mary grabbed my hand along with hers and pulled it up high.

"Ok," he went on, "how many of you have had some customers naked?" About ten hands went up. Then he asked, "How many of you have been naked yourself?" A few more hands went up and he told everyone thanks and he turned around and sat down again.

I really didn't know what that all was about until Paris got back up to the podium and said, "As you can see from the people that were standing up that more and more of you will be encountering different people of all sizes and ages who might not be wearing anything more than what you would wear in a shower. And that (as you all might know) isn't only affecting our profession. We all need to become more accepting of this type of change that is happening. Now thank you for your attention and I hope you all have a great time at the convention. Oh, one more thing. I would like the five individuals who are naked to please come to the front of the stage area."

As I was following Mary to the front, I was kind of relieved that we weren't the only ones who were naked. Then when the room was almost empty, I saw the others that were naked as well. One was a middle-aged male as well as two younger ladies and the last one was some lady who looks like my mother.

Once the room was empty Paris very casually sat down on the edge of the stage and let her legs hang over and was showing everything. Then as Mary and I took our seats next to the other three, Jack (I believe) walked out onto the stage equally as naked as the rest of us.

"Alright," Paris said. "How is everybody feeling?" I said just about what everyone else said, "Great" or some corny thing like that.

Paris said, "The reason I have asked you all to stay back with me was that I wanted to see how you all are handling this."

I then almost without thinking about what I was going to say, raised my hand like a little schoolgirl.

"Kim."

"I have been living this naturist lifestyle now for close to three weeks. Now I cannot say that I didn't have moments when I wished that I was still dressed in something. But, overall I am very happy with my decision; so much so that I may never wear anything else again." I did notice the others looking at me with bug eyes as I sat down, but at that moment I didn't care.

That little bear talk went on for another thirty minutes and I managed to learn a little bit more about some of them than I wanted to. Luckily for me, we all had to move out of the room because the next speaker needed to set up.

After we both were back out in the vendor area, one of the naked twenty-something girls stopped me as I listened to a man's sales pitch. "Kim, is it true you no longer own any clothes, and how is your family handling you being naked?"

As she said that, Mary smiled at me as I took the girl's hand. And I pulled her away from the others and said, "I take it you are interested in taking on the naturist lifestyle."

She gave me a shy smile and said, "Yes," very softly.

"Just to let you know I have two girls who are probably a few years younger than you. And they both have been full-time naturists or what is called absolutes, for over four years now."

All she could get out was, "Four years without clothes, high school."

After that, she bombarded me with questions before Mary came back up to us and asked if she would mind joining us for dinner after we all listen in to the next presentation that will start any minute from now. Wendell (for that was the girl's name) and I said sure and the three of us started looking for a seat.

Chapter 9

The last hour, or so, of the conference was, for the most part, very boring. Two of the four people up there on the stage had those monotone voices that could put you asleep.

Then the moment arrived when the speaker said what we all have been waiting for, "Thanks for attending and we were looking forward to seeing you tomorrow." I, for one, was more than ready to get out of there after listening to them talk about 'Environmental Issues and Trends.'

The three of us decided to wait until most of the others had left the room before we made our way out to the lobby area just outside the ballroom. I believe it was some five minutes or more we until all started making our way to the door when suddenly Wendell turned around in almost a panic. When she did that I quickly looked at Mary and we both, almost at the same time, asked her if she was alright, when we didn't get an answer right away, Mary put her arm around her and pulled her closer to comfort her as we all took the nearest available seats.

Once she was starting to get her composure back, I reached for her hand as a sign of support. We all ended up sitting in silence for close to five minutes until she fully came back to herself and said, "Thanks, I don't know what came over me, it's just that I wasn't ready to remain naked after the conference was over and when you two started getting up and we started making our way out, I got nervous and scared at the idea of being naked outside the hotel. I am truly sorry you both had to witness my little breakdown."

I noticed that she looked more relaxed afterward, but I could tell that she was still a little nervous. So I looked at Mary and said, "Wendell, if you don't mind me asking, how long you have been nude?"

I didn't expect an answer right away, and, from the expression she was making, it looked like she was trying to find the right words to say as we remained sitting and the maintenance crew started cleaning. Then she looked up at me and Mary and said very softly, "Since this morning in my hotel room when I stripped off the clothes I was wearing because... I am sorry."

As she stopped, I quickly hugged her as a sign of support before she looked back up and then Mary did the same. "Sorry. At my agency, we only had room for one person to attend this conference and there were six of us that wanted to go. So, our boss made us a deal. He told the six of us that if one of us was willing to attend both days of the conference completely naked, we would be allowed to attend. And, if two or more of us still wanted to go, he asked us if we would be willing to give up all our clothes in the office after we got back."

After she said the last part, the only thing I could do was just give her a blank stare and from the look at Mary, she was dumbfounded as well. I couldn't believe someone would put that much pressure on someone else. Well, at least my boss is naked along with me right now and who knows what Wendell's boss is wearing, but I am almost certain that he isn't nude.

After a few minutes, just as I was about to say something, Mary spoke up, "What a creep. I take it that you were the only one that said yes to that offer?"

"Are you both from the same agency?" I didn't even get a word out when Mary said, "Yes, Kim is one of my top employees and she has been doing everything at the agency from showing homes to closing wearing what little she has on right now. And for myself, I am the president of the agency and after a lot of thought and soul-searching, I decided last night, with my husband's concurrence, to be with Kim in all my glory. I am troubled by the offer he gave you. I do not want to speak for Kim, but I would understand if you wanted to go back up to your room and get dressed and we all can go out for dinner. Oh, one more thing, I do not plan on getting dressed any time this trip."

Listening to Mary talk and seeing how confident she looks compared to the way she was earlier is remarkable. You would be convinced by her confidence that she has been naked as long as I have. I was starting to notice that some of the maintenance crew were glancing over at us like they want us to leave. So I said, "I think they want us to get up and leave." As we were all getting up, I noticed Wendell was showing a lot more confidence compared to the way she was thirty minutes ago.

Then, as we were in the hallway walking to the elevator, Wendell said, "About the offer my boss gave us. Three out of six quickly said no thank you; one of them was my friend Jeff. That left three of us that were still willing to do what I did today. Then, after a day, he called the three of us into his office and gave us another condition to attending, 'the three of you are willing to agree to my previous offer?' I said yes along with Arnold and Joanna. He then gave us another proposal: Whoever is willing to attend the conference completely naked and is also willing to work in the office naked, I expect to remain completely naked at all times while they are working regardless of where they are or what they are doing." Mary and I stopped walking as soon as she told us about her boss's last offer. I couldn't believe how close it was to what I had Mary write up for me a few weeks ago.

"Wendell," I said, "How do you feel about being naked right now?" After asking that question, I didn't expect her to give me an answer right away, but she said, "Great, thanks to you two."

It wasn't until we were in the elevator and Wendell quickly pushed the lobby button, that I said, "You don't want to get dressed?" She quickly said, "Wouldn't you look funny with me dressed and you two flopping around in your birthday suits?"

Once we all were well into the lobby, I noticed that no one was paying any attention to us. It was almost like this happens all the time. I cannot imagine what it was like being naked in public when it was a crime. We managed to make it almost a block before Mary and I noticed Wendell was holding herself in the same casual way she had the first time we saw her.

The restaurant we ended up going to is one of those major fast-food chains. I noticed some of the customers there were either nude like us or in some degree of undress, especially among the younger ones. I did notice one of the older females give me a dirty look as I placed my order.

Then, as we were making our way to an open booth, I saw a few kids in their teens or early twenties getting a little close for my taste. I didn't see what was going on but from all of the giggling, I knew. I wasn't born yesterday.

During the rest of the meal, we all made small talk, but after we were walking back to the hotel, Mary asked Wendell the question I had been wondering about. "Wendell, if you do not mind me asking, what happened to the other two that were in your boss' office?"

She just smiled as we all stopped right there on the busy sidewalk and said, "They both chickened out and left me standing there scared shitless at the idea of giving up all my clothing while I was working. So, since I still wanted to go to this conference, I took his offer and spent the rest of last week and well into the weekend without talking about it with either my coworkers or family. Yesterday I couldn't get my mind off of the idea of being naked here and I wasn't willing to tell anyone about the last offer and to my understanding, neither of the other two did either. I just asked my supervisor if I could go home for the day and pack."

Just as a semi-truck passed us honking its horn, we all started walking again. None of us said a thing until we all were back in the lobby when she said, "I appreciate the friendship, and my room number is 5112. I plan on having breakfast tomorrow morning in the hotel restaurant if you both don't mind."

Well, both of us quickly agreed to meet up with her for breakfast. We all climbed into the elevator and it stopped on our floor we both said our goodnights as we watched the elevator door close. I then said my goodnights to Mary as we went our separate ways. It didn't dawn on me until I was back in my room and alone that today was maybe the first time that I didn't wish for even a moment that I was still dressed.

Well, I do have to say that being completely naked all the time has its downfalls, my feet are... well... nasty. I will have to spend some time cleaning them before I climb my naked butt into that bed if I don't want to blacken the sheets. I will need to call my husband and my daughters if they are home. Due to the time difference, they may not be. I know he will not mind if I wake him up, but I would rather not.

When I got a hold of him, we ended up talking for close to an hour before he handed the phone to Marla, who was home. I did talk to him about what happened on the plane and also about the new girl Wendell. He told me that he was quite surprised by the way I handled the situation. He also told me that he would never put one of his employees in a situation like Wendell's boss put her through. He just couldn't believe her boss even had the balls to suggest it in the first place.

Chapter 10

Once out in the hallway and walking toward the elevator, we decided to head up to our rooms and drop off our stuff and meet back up together in the lobby area in thirty minutes.

I quickly went back up to my room to freshen up since I didn't have anything with me to drop off. I did put my stuff back into my purse before heading out. I managed to make it down to the lobby first and sat down and started reading the paper.

Maybe a minute or two later, the others were in the lobby and all three of our bare butts were out the door waiting for a taxi to take us to the five-star restaurant that Mary was talking about earlier.

It didn't take very long for a taxi to stop for us and we all were off. Now I am not sure which one of us the driver was paying more attention to, us or the road. He was making me a little nervous with his insane driving and I am sure the others felt the same from the comments Wendell made as he drove off. We ended up not paying him his fare as he started flapping his arms around and then drove off. I was just glad to be out of that taxi.

The fancy restaurant we ended up going to is in the city center and is very fancy and I was very surprised Mary wanted us to come here knowing that we all are quite under-dressed for the place. She just kept on encouraging me to follow her as we passed the over-the-top exterior décor that was surrounding the place. We all walked through the fancy lobby to the restaurant where I noticed what the hostess was wearing or not wearing.

I know nakedness is becoming more common in public places where it was taboo five or more years ago. But I never thought a formal place like this, a five-star restaurant, would have all of their staff wearing nothing. I just cannot see a restaurant or any other place requiring or forcing all of their staff to work naked.

Now I know it sounds silly pondering why the host isn't wearing anything when I am sitting here naked. But it is just that before walking into the fancy hotel, I was fully ready to be the only one there naked beside Mary and Wendell.

I guess my wondering about why they were naked caused me to just stop and I didn't realize it until one of the girls tapped my shoulder and I came back to life and started walking to the table. As the host walked away, we couldn't keep our eyes off him. He was somewhere in his twenties.

Then as we all were somewhere in la-la-land, the waitress walked up and brought us all back to reality by saying, "Don't worry that happens a lot here. Can I take your drink orders ladies?" None of us said anything until Mary spoke up and told the waitress what she wanted to drink and then the rest of us told her what we wanted to drink.

I believe it was then that it dawned on me that in two short weeks of being fully naked everywhere, how comfortable I have become and how I wasn't even consciously thinking about it anymore. Not even when I am around others who are as naked as me.

Well, getting back to the restaurant, the waitress came back to the table with our drinks and we all gave her our orders and shortly later the food came to the table. We all started talking about the convention and other stuff and after an enjoyable meal; we split the bill and walked out of the place.

Before long we all were in the cab and on our way back to the hotel. When we were back in the hotel lobby, Mary and I said our goodbyes to our new friend and promised to keep in touch. And then Mary told her that if she ever wants to move, she would hold a position for her.