another good one jpb. thanks for sharing and your hard work and effort. geez brooksy, you really got a case of trots of the mouth on this one. your showing off that well earned FI tattoo. so please sbrooks, just shut up!
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Anonymous01/21/17
Cute. Thanks. But way too contrived to contemplate or analyze. Pretty much a gotcha story.
So JPB just mind fucked his readers. The only surprise is that anyone familiar with his work is surprised. JPB IS a mind fuck. I'm just glad he's still fucking with us. Pretty hard to keep every story a blow out winner, but he keeps us entertained. And the price is right.
Thanks Bob. And you know, your JPFU!
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Anonymous01/21/17
FUCKEN TASTIC STORY
Hi there peoples! Truly I enjoyed this story, sure it's too short. It needs 2 maybe three pages including epilog? But I still loved and enjoyed reading it! Thanks for sharing this Fantastic story with us! Love you all! GREG. OH 100 % OF READING ENJOYMENT BYE.
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Anonymous01/21/17
Better
More like the writer I have enjoyed stories from. Much better than the last. Easy to follow, better detailed and well thought out.
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Anonymous01/21/17
Well, the major consensus seems to be SHE's the one in the doghouse
Also, this story also reinforced my feelings that JPB is either partially posting (maybe reposting) older stories that were written when JPB was learning or the name is a group moniker. The knowledge of basic English, especially punctuation, is different from the last story.
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Anonymous01/21/17
not buying it
her story was far to "out there". They had the time to hire an escort to show up to make the "story" believable. If it was true she should have woke him up and told him the truth that night, true as in most LW stories he deleted text and voice mails without listening to them(why do they always do that?) Comes down to no communication in marriage
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Anonymous01/21/17
Good story, Bob!
Except I saw my wife of three years kissing her ex once, so I divorced her. It wasn't a peck on the cheek, however, and seven days after our divorce was final, she married her ex! I'm not sorry a bit, cheaters get what they get for a reason.
Six months after their marriage, according to a mutual friend, he had already cheated and gave her an STD, Chlamydia, if I remember correctly. She filed for divorce from him on their first anniversary.
I found she did cheat with him before I saw them kissing. She admitted it when after her second divorce was final and she stopped by to see if there was anything left of us. She was in tears when she left, I shut her down completely with these words:
Once a cheater, always a cheater.
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Anonymous01/21/17
amused
I enjoyed the story but I am also always amused by the number of comments that refuse to buy the idea that the wife didn't cheat. That refusal is pretty consistent in every other story on this site where the wife doesn't cheat in the end.
Come on, it's a fictional story made up by the author. If the author states the wife didn't cheat, she didn't cheat. In this case, the story really only works if she didn't cheat. That's pretty much the punchline of the story.
Enjoy it and move on to another story where the wife did cheat and got burned.
You lie, thigns are your fault and you get to deal with the fall out...
... unless your a woman? The wife is nuts to even *think* of trying to punish the husband for anything from this tale. But then women are VERY rarely ever rational about, well, anything really.
As for the story, fun little flash story. Well written as usual.
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Anonymous01/21/17
It is Still Fishy
Three star effort. I guess the outcomes were just a bit too soft for me given how the story was set up.
Maybe not immediately, but he should definitely change jobs. A peer literally fucked her way to acing him out of the promotion, compromised his Boss, and is still willing to compromise him too. Man to man, at least he can still trust the Boss, but moving forward that is not a healthy environment for a career.
Brooke's story is still plenty fishy and hubby shouldn't be kissing ass just yet:
- Why would Mark need to pick Brooke up? She has a car and knows the town. Mark's wife who doesn't know the town "well" but managed to get there just fine.
- Of all the "friends" in attendance, why did Mark need to play Uber only for Brooke?
- Brooke knew Hubby was "like that" so she lied about not being at home. So if she know he is "like that" why didn't she tell him about the gathering upfront? Why would she let Mark come to her house? Particularly when hubby was going to be out of town 3 or 4 days? What other stuff has Brooke slid by or have in the back of her mind to consider sliding by?
- If Mark is moving back to town, there is plenty of other occasions for them to meet Mark's wife together with Hubby. That assumes that Hubby would even agree to consider starting a friends/acquaintances relationship with Mark and his wife...or would be comfortable with Brooke to have an one.
- Heck, if I never saw any of my Ex-girl friends again in life that would be fine with me, so I definitely see no reason for wifey to want to develop a new relationship with an Ex and his wife. Who cares what Mark wants. The world is a big place, surely Mark and his Wife could get by fine without Brooke in their lives and vice versa.
Yeah, but was Carol really Mark's wife or just a stand in?
Bob delivers again...just proves it don't have to be a stroker to being a good read.
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Anonymous01/22/17
Great
You still have the magic touch. At least, the hero got a brand new truck and a raise out of the deal.
Boyd Percy
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Anonymous01/22/17
Plot Holes
Your plot holes do detract from your otherwise solid story. Usually you leave a major plot hole at the end of the story by not showing which way the story will end. One more hole: I know I would have called Barry to confirm that wifey did learn Ryan was home. If not, then wifey and Mark and "Carol" showed up for another purpose.
Good story as always. I thought that you had stopped writing as I had an absence from Literotica (yes life does go on after Lit) for a couple of years before returning to Lit and LW again.
Your ability to craft your tales so well, with a boundless imagination that creates original scenarios for each is really unparalleled.
Thanks for a truly enjoyable story and I hope that you will follow it up soonest. I think that new authors here could do with your influence as all we readers seem to have is a staple diet of cuckold stories. I don't have a problem with cuckold but you know the old saying I like chicken but every night?
She shouldn't have lied about being home. How is supposed to trust her going forward when it was so easy for her to lie?
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Anonymous01/22/17
Thanks for the story 5 *
I don't understand the haters. I rarely stop by this site because the quality is terrible. You wrote a entertaining 2 page story that played with many of the common cliches in the LW category. You are still one of the masters after your long lay off.As usual, your protagonist is an honest good guy who runs into trouble. He hates cheaters and learns that his boss and a co-worker are planning on screwing him out of a promotion that he earned because of their illicit affair. Then he comes home to see his wife leave with her ex-boyfriend and lie about where she was. There must be hundreds of these stories out there.
This story confronts the reasons his boss and co-worker cheated. They know that Ryan is a good guy and are honest with him and things work out. Ryan is honest with the company responsible for his accident and he gets paid for his new truck. Ryan didn't give his wife a chance to explain herself and the truth was she was not guilty of cheating. This is a happy ending. All the commenters who say otherwise are wrong. Its JPB's story and he gave us the facts. Write your own story if you don't accept the facts.
Some of the comments make me understand why we have Trump as president. There are a lot of stupid people out there. JPB is not one of them and I thank him for his work.
She will make his life miserable even if he thinks he is innocent.
He was a touch premature but honestly, his wife should have grabbed him and told him the story (it would take all of 30 seconds) to put some doubts in his head.
And if she knew it was so innocent, why did she speed back in 20 minutes. She knew she did wrong. She admitted she did wrong.
But he dared question her integrity, which she clearly put into question. And women don't forgive that easily. It seems that Barry isn't the only guy who is going to go without sex for a while.
However, he might be well served by checking with the waiters that night. Just to be sure. SHE brought her honesty into question, not him.
JPB is usually pretty cynical but occasionally he lets his idealism peek through and we get an amusing and heartwarming story such as this one. But of course the BTB crowd can never concede that a woman might be innocent so they reinvent the story to suit their own sad little prejudices. What miserable lives they must lead.
Where did all these complaints come from? So Brooke lied. So Ryan's boss was screwing Marge and Ryan lost the promotion. He got a new pick-up didn't he? I don't remember was it an extended cab or a long bed? Damn Bob might have stuck us with a Mustang, but Bob's better than that.
Yes that is what we call them in the U.K., meaning that strictly speaking it is a lie but of little importance. In those bad old days when only men controlled the finances { ah halycon days} a wife would minimize the cost of expensive looking shoes by saying they were on offer, things like that no real harm all tongue in cheek. so to jpb's character, to the simple question where are you, oh i am in the Texas Roadhouse with blah blah and blah, we are meeting with Ryan who is introducing us to his wife Carol. Absolutely no need to lie, could hubby have behaved differently and answered his phone? yes but ultimate responsibility is on the wife. It's a good story about how one silly thing leads to another.
Another great story. My only comment would be that she had a whole night to straighten things out, not just crawl in bed and say "I love you" before sawing wood. All stories of this ilk have the guy ignoring all phone calls, but this is an occasion where it backfires. Oh well, all's well that ends well. He did get a motor boating out of the whole thing, in addition to the new truck.
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Anonymous01/22/17
su-cker!
he's been had! it's obvious she IS fucking around!
But I agree with others,the ending sucks, because if the story with Mark is true (which of course could be bs,'Carol' could be a shill,and the wife's lying makes it tough to accept). Think about this,Barry is honest with Ryan,though he risks losing him,knowing the way Ryan feels,he is apologetic and honest.The wife?She claims she didn't tell him because 'I know the way you are', and then instead of admitting she fucked up, goes on the attack rather then show regret,which anyone who knows cheaters knows is a common way they defend themselves,blaming the victim. The reason this leaves a bad taste in the mouth is it doesn't settle the issue,I think JPB wants this to be a misunderstanding , but leaves ine feeling dischord, what in music they call uncompleted dissonance.
This story has a ridiculous ending. Wife claims she isn't cheating? Hot wife of former BF conveniently shows up? Fine......Ryan tells everyone to take their cell phone out, and put it in the table, without changing or altering anything on them.... Of course, if Brooke objects or starts to turn pale, this isn't gonna turn out well....
1. Press 'Wife' or 'Carol' on Houser's phone. If Carol's phone doesn't ring, or another woman answers, Ryan explains to her where Houser is, asks where SHE is, and explain what is going on. Next more.....Divorce the cheating slut wife.
2. Look at Brooke's phone. ALL of the friends who were supposed to be there should be saved in her Friends list. Call them......ALLL of them, and ask them where they were on the night of the event. If they were not there.....Divorce the cheating slut wife.
3. Look at Brooke's text messages. See if she and Houser are sending nasty fuck-notes back and forth. If so......Divorce the cheating slut wife.
4. See if Houser has a recent call to an escort service. Call them, pretending to be him, and tell them the hot escort they sent over to roleplay his wife for the sucker husband was perfect. If they know what you're talking about.....Divorce the cheating slut wife.
The writer offers us a set of facts. He even gives us a tone.
Here, the author is trying to lay down that the husband made an understandable assumption, but was incorrect. An escort won't gaze at someone with 'love in their eyes'.
I've had it done to me as well. The reader decides to add facts to a story to make the story what they want. You don't want the husband to be wrong? Her Little White Lie is now the Pentagon Papers. Wife is irate she is called a slut? It's because she is a remorseless she harpy and certainly NOT because she is an innocent wronged! She has to be EVIL.
The reader isn't 'wrong' if he INTERPRETS facts slightly differently AS PRESENTED. They ARE wrong when they add new facts which weren't in the story.
Occam's Razor. It removes a lot of thicket which obscures a story.
I got to admit that I am a bit uncomfortable when a wife's innocence isn't based on trust as a mature human being, but requires an affidavit from Four Men to prove her innocence. I think they use something like that up in Afghanistan.
Is that really how you want your daughters treated, assumed liars without evidence?
Yes there is room for doubt and I wouldn't blame this guy from asking a discreet question at the restaurant (but how do you trust the people there to not lie?)
But the going from zero to SLUT is a bit of jumping the gun.
I'm perfectly happy to accept that facts as written, even when the facts don't make sense, like why isn't Carol with Mark when he picks up Brooke, why does she lie when there is a perfectly innocent truth, why didn't the entire dinner party got to the house immediately to explain?
Why didn't she tell him about it, or schedule it for after his trip?
But having accepted the facts, and believing she is TOTALLY innocent, why is HE in trouble for making perfectly rational assumptions?
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Anonymous01/23/17
How do we know...
That Carol is really Mark's wife? Ryan has no proof and the Brooke and Ryan had ample time to make up the story and pay a prostitute to pretend to be Mark's wife.
How do we know Brooke and Mark were just old friends out for an evening with other old friends? Again, all we have is their word for it.
And Brooke clearly lied to her husband about her whereabouts when he called her and she believed him to be out of town on business. One does not consciously utter a lie and then dismiss it with as "a brain fart."
The fact that her first instinct was to lie to her husband in the real world would show a callous disrespect for him and also that she is probably lying about her other activities as well.
Basically this is just another JPB cuckold faggot story.
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Anonymous01/23/17
Really?
His insurance company pays the claim?
He just walks away from a accident that totals a car?
He inflates the accident value by $500 when the other driver was drunk?
He is ok without the additional benefits from the promotion?
He just buys the lie she told?
And we are just going to believe that he is able to close big business deals?
I call bullshit!
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Anonymous01/23/17
Fun
Another fun story from JPB, except he was Ryan this time. The facts and nothing but the facts? The author gave us a story with the focus on what happened in the day in the life of Ryan. How much more can anonymous want to add? That's his/her story but this one if Bob's. Another good job. Keep them coming.
Tiny Tim
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Anonymous01/23/17
Never thought I'd say this
Never thought I'd agree with an anonymous user (granted that was because most of them are trolls), but I have to agree with the guy that had a comment titled "How do we know?" How is it that we know Carol is his wife? She could have actually asked the boss when he was home and hired someone to pose as the ex-boyfriend's wife. I'd have needed a bit of evidence and I think it would provided a bit more to the story.
I don't get you people and your stupid complaints.
Think of that new truck. Bet it's black, big HD diesel, mag wheels. I can hear it now when he starts it up,that low distinctive grumble and rumble of power. Damn it Brooke; get out there, I want a classic Camaro next! Make daddy happy! Maybe a new boat. Think of the rooster tails out on the river! Rock on baby girl!
To make a story you need some contrivance. Dominos going wrong or correctly just the right way for extended drama to ensue. The husband has to miss the flight JUST when the wife is spreading for the neighbor. The woman talking to her lover on a landline exactly where the husband can hear her.
If Carol was with Brooke, if the husband waited around the restaurant, if he had answered ONE FUCKING PHONE CALL, the story would have deflated or been very different. That is not the story that Bob was writing.
THIS story was about husbandly comeuppance. It was a story about a husband making a wild jump to conclusions and him suffering as a result.
Why is he suffering as a result?
Well, let's look at any number of stories in LW. A woman is given a photo or hears a story from a friend and suddenly WHAM, the husband gets divorce papers at work (usually along with a contrived restraining order, a contrivance of it's own) and the wife, never, not once, lets the husband have his say.
We are supposed to feel for the put upon husband, trying to prove his innocence. We are supposed to think the wife is blatantly unfair, even if she has a photo (ala Dig Two Graves) of husband fucking some other woman.
She should have let him have his say.
Are you suggesting that if a WIFE is innocent of infidelity, screamed at by the husband and shut out, she shouldn't feel any of the upset that we are so happy to applaud when it is a man?
She knows that simply holding a man's hand for a moment or giving him a peck on the cheek is enough to get her divorced. One bump in the road, and hubby won't let her have her say and will toss her in front of the bus.
How would you feel if you got a hug from some random 'huggy' woman and your wife tried to divorce you?
Bear in mind, I do not think she is fully justified in her upset. But I understand it.
As far as her 'story', I can think of 6 different ways to verify if she is lying or not without thinking, starting with just asking 'Carol' to see her driver's license. You think an escort will have a fake id? You think Barry at work will lie for her?
At this point, for the wife to be guilty, she needs to have an entire conspiracy of liars to cover for her. But some readers would prefer to believe a conspiracy than in a wife's innocence. Hmm.
So either the wife is as bald faced a liar as Bill Clinton, or she is innocent. From the facts and the tone, JPB is obviously going for the later.
Um... you seem to have forgotten, I hate to mention it, but, "I'm in the basement, doing laundry." The lie began the whole shenanigans. The lie, FD45, we can't forget the lie. No lie, none of it happens. Someone who has just lied to their husband, directly, and has been caught in the lie, and was with an old boyfriend, whom she lied about being with, can hardly pretend moral outrage at being accused of cheating. Abject apology is in order, not outrage.
Scenario: I am going to lunch, minding my own business, when Stephanie, the Hottie who works for XYZ corporation, comes up and gives me a big hello hug. "You big lug! I'm glad I caught you before we did negotiations about M. Let's go! I won't take no for an answer. Lunch is on me."
So she drags me (not terribly unwillingly because, hey, low cut blouse) to some place to eat.
Wife if stridently filing her nails when I get home and asks how my day was. "Okay. I guess."
"So nothing special?"
"Not really." I say. I had a business lunch. In public. Albeit with a girl with 36DDs, but that seems...impolitic to say to the wife and can just lead to 'trouble'.
Since I wasn't motorboating her, it was JUST LUNCH.
The next day I get served at work for divorce and wifey will not take my calls.
In your example HE didn't lie, well maybe a little bit by omission, so of course he was right to get upset at being served divorce papers!
In THIS story she LIED, and unless I'm misremembering wasn't served with divorce papers, I don't think he even formally accused her of cheating, he simply thought she was cheating, and repeating myself for the umpteenth time, with GOOD CAUSE!
Our Girl still gots some 'splainin' to do. So instead of taking her own car to the get-together, she has old boyfriend pick her up, by himself, when her husband is out of town? Then lies to keep husband from finding out? Raises questions about what she was planning on doing after dinner, if she hadn't gotten busted, eh?
Then when they're all going to straighten everything out, why is old boyfriend riding with Our Girl, instead of his own wife, especially when said wife doesn't know her way around town?
I don't think she's cheated -- yet -- but she's got no business getting on her high horse, and he might ought to keep that funny business detector in working order.
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Anonymous01/26/17
:-/
you are so weak JPB. I cant believe you are listening to these morons and started making your stories more nice and mainstream. I miss your cheating, one night stand, gangbanging, 3 hole exwives, girlfriends, neighbors, aunts, mothers, daughters, sisters etc you used to write about. But hey, if writing "aww shucks" erotica makes you think you are growing as a writer, more power to ya...
"I'm in the basement doing laundry", 100% lie, WHY? Because Brooke had INTENT to CHEAT in her mind or she was in the process of CHEATING. Brooke goes out with ex-boyfriend and does not tell Ryan - again Brooke had INTENT to CHEAT. Carol who is new to the city and gets lost was not in the Houser's car when picking up Brooke?!?
Cut your losses and walk/run from this almost whore. It's just a matter of time and she is going to CHEAT if the deed hasn't already happened. Or be a Cuck?!?
English
thanks jpb
another good one jpb. thanks for sharing and your hard work and effort. geez brooksy, you really got a case of trots of the mouth on this one. your showing off that well earned FI tattoo. so please sbrooks, just shut up!
Cute. Thanks. But way too contrived to contemplate or analyze. Pretty much a gotcha story.
So JPB just mind fucked his readers. The only surprise is that anyone familiar with his work is surprised. JPB IS a mind fuck. I'm just glad he's still fucking with us. Pretty hard to keep every story a blow out winner, but he keeps us entertained. And the price is right.
Thanks Bob. And you know, your JPFU!
FUCKEN TASTIC STORY
Hi there peoples! Truly I enjoyed this story, sure it's too short. It needs 2 maybe three pages including epilog? But I still loved and enjoyed reading it! Thanks for sharing this Fantastic story with us! Love you all! GREG. OH 100 % OF READING ENJOYMENT BYE.
Better
More like the writer I have enjoyed stories from. Much better than the last. Easy to follow, better detailed and well thought out.
Well, the major consensus seems to be SHE's the one in the doghouse
Also, this story also reinforced my feelings that JPB is either partially posting (maybe reposting) older stories that were written when JPB was learning or the name is a group moniker. The knowledge of basic English, especially punctuation, is different from the last story.
not buying it
her story was far to "out there". They had the time to hire an escort to show up to make the "story" believable. If it was true she should have woke him up and told him the truth that night, true as in most LW stories he deleted text and voice mails without listening to them(why do they always do that?) Comes down to no communication in marriage
Good story, Bob!
Except I saw my wife of three years kissing her ex once, so I divorced her. It wasn't a peck on the cheek, however, and seven days after our divorce was final, she married her ex! I'm not sorry a bit, cheaters get what they get for a reason.
Six months after their marriage, according to a mutual friend, he had already cheated and gave her an STD, Chlamydia, if I remember correctly. She filed for divorce from him on their first anniversary.
I found she did cheat with him before I saw them kissing. She admitted it when after her second divorce was final and she stopped by to see if there was anything left of us. She was in tears when she left, I shut her down completely with these words:
Once a cheater, always a cheater.
amused
I enjoyed the story but I am also always amused by the number of comments that refuse to buy the idea that the wife didn't cheat. That refusal is pretty consistent in every other story on this site where the wife doesn't cheat in the end.
Come on, it's a fictional story made up by the author. If the author states the wife didn't cheat, she didn't cheat. In this case, the story really only works if she didn't cheat. That's pretty much the punchline of the story.
Enjoy it and move on to another story where the wife did cheat and got burned.
5* story, of course
Had Ryan's wife told a stupid lie, he wouldn't have thought she was cheating.
The problem was caused by her lying.
I am at home downstairs. A lie.
Something is up.
You lie, thigns are your fault and you get to deal with the fall out...
... unless your a woman? The wife is nuts to even *think* of trying to punish the husband for anything from this tale. But then women are VERY rarely ever rational about, well, anything really.
As for the story, fun little flash story. Well written as usual.
It is Still Fishy
Three star effort. I guess the outcomes were just a bit too soft for me given how the story was set up.
Maybe not immediately, but he should definitely change jobs. A peer literally fucked her way to acing him out of the promotion, compromised his Boss, and is still willing to compromise him too. Man to man, at least he can still trust the Boss, but moving forward that is not a healthy environment for a career.
Brooke's story is still plenty fishy and hubby shouldn't be kissing ass just yet:
- Why would Mark need to pick Brooke up? She has a car and knows the town. Mark's wife who doesn't know the town "well" but managed to get there just fine.
- Of all the "friends" in attendance, why did Mark need to play Uber only for Brooke?
- Brooke knew Hubby was "like that" so she lied about not being at home. So if she know he is "like that" why didn't she tell him about the gathering upfront? Why would she let Mark come to her house? Particularly when hubby was going to be out of town 3 or 4 days? What other stuff has Brooke slid by or have in the back of her mind to consider sliding by?
- If Mark is moving back to town, there is plenty of other occasions for them to meet Mark's wife together with Hubby. That assumes that Hubby would even agree to consider starting a friends/acquaintances relationship with Mark and his wife...or would be comfortable with Brooke to have an one.
- Heck, if I never saw any of my Ex-girl friends again in life that would be fine with me, so I definitely see no reason for wifey to want to develop a new relationship with an Ex and his wife. Who cares what Mark wants. The world is a big place, surely Mark and his Wife could get by fine without Brooke in their lives and vice versa.
Nice job JPB, you are still quite relevant on this site
and your library grows in quality with this submission. Enjoyed it a great deal, looking fwd to more.
Yeah, but was Carol really Mark's wife or just a stand in?
Bob delivers again...just proves it don't have to be a stroker to being a good read.
Great
You still have the magic touch. At least, the hero got a brand new truck and a raise out of the deal.
Boyd Percy
Plot Holes
Your plot holes do detract from your otherwise solid story. Usually you leave a major plot hole at the end of the story by not showing which way the story will end. One more hole: I know I would have called Barry to confirm that wifey did learn Ryan was home. If not, then wifey and Mark and "Carol" showed up for another purpose.
Great To Read You Again...
Hi JPB,
Good story as always. I thought that you had stopped writing as I had an absence from Literotica (yes life does go on after Lit) for a couple of years before returning to Lit and LW again.
Your ability to craft your tales so well, with a boundless imagination that creates original scenarios for each is really unparalleled.
Thanks for a truly enjoyable story and I hope that you will follow it up soonest. I think that new authors here could do with your influence as all we readers seem to have is a staple diet of cuckold stories. I don't have a problem with cuckold but you know the old saying I like chicken but every night?
@Anonymous Re: "thanks jpb"
Who died a named you king? As long as comments are allowed I'm going to comment whether you like it or not!
I haven't received any complaints from JPB, and many others have made similar comments to mine, so why do you have such a bug up your ass for me?
And WTF is "FI"?
She is to blame
She shouldn't have lied about being home. How is supposed to trust her going forward when it was so easy for her to lie?
Thanks for the story 5 *
I don't understand the haters. I rarely stop by this site because the quality is terrible. You wrote a entertaining 2 page story that played with many of the common cliches in the LW category. You are still one of the masters after your long lay off.As usual, your protagonist is an honest good guy who runs into trouble. He hates cheaters and learns that his boss and a co-worker are planning on screwing him out of a promotion that he earned because of their illicit affair. Then he comes home to see his wife leave with her ex-boyfriend and lie about where she was. There must be hundreds of these stories out there.
This story confronts the reasons his boss and co-worker cheated. They know that Ryan is a good guy and are honest with him and things work out. Ryan is honest with the company responsible for his accident and he gets paid for his new truck. Ryan didn't give his wife a chance to explain herself and the truth was she was not guilty of cheating. This is a happy ending. All the commenters who say otherwise are wrong. Its JPB's story and he gave us the facts. Write your own story if you don't accept the facts.
Some of the comments make me understand why we have Trump as president. There are a lot of stupid people out there. JPB is not one of them and I thank him for his work.
reasonable man
What's blame got to do with it?
She will make his life miserable even if he thinks he is innocent.
He was a touch premature but honestly, his wife should have grabbed him and told him the story (it would take all of 30 seconds) to put some doubts in his head.
And if she knew it was so innocent, why did she speed back in 20 minutes. She knew she did wrong. She admitted she did wrong.
But he dared question her integrity, which she clearly put into question. And women don't forgive that easily. It seems that Barry isn't the only guy who is going to go without sex for a while.
However, he might be well served by checking with the waiters that night. Just to be sure. SHE brought her honesty into question, not him.
JPB for Emperor
JPB is usually pretty cynical but occasionally he lets his idealism peek through and we get an amusing and heartwarming story such as this one. But of course the BTB crowd can never concede that a woman might be innocent so they reinvent the story to suit their own sad little prejudices. What miserable lives they must lead.
WTF!
Where did all these complaints come from? So Brooke lied. So Ryan's boss was screwing Marge and Ryan lost the promotion. He got a new pick-up didn't he? I don't remember was it an extended cab or a long bed? Damn Bob might have stuck us with a Mustang, but Bob's better than that.
I read it and had a damn good time!
Keep em coming Bob!
Jedd Clampett
Little White Lies
Yes that is what we call them in the U.K., meaning that strictly speaking it is a lie but of little importance. In those bad old days when only men controlled the finances { ah halycon days} a wife would minimize the cost of expensive looking shoes by saying they were on offer, things like that no real harm all tongue in cheek. so to jpb's character, to the simple question where are you, oh i am in the Texas Roadhouse with blah blah and blah, we are meeting with Ryan who is introducing us to his wife Carol. Absolutely no need to lie, could hubby have behaved differently and answered his phone? yes but ultimate responsibility is on the wife. It's a good story about how one silly thing leads to another.
Time enough
Another great story. My only comment would be that she had a whole night to straighten things out, not just crawl in bed and say "I love you" before sawing wood. All stories of this ilk have the guy ignoring all phone calls, but this is an occasion where it backfires. Oh well, all's well that ends well. He did get a motor boating out of the whole thing, in addition to the new truck.
su-cker!
he's been had! it's obvious she IS fucking around!
lies plus attitude
Her going to a lie when the truth could have served better is a big flashing red warning light.
Her rather contemptuous attitude toward her husband is another big flashing red warning light.
She may not be cheating with Ryan, but she is giving signs that she is doing something behind her husbands back.
Time to hire a PI and see?
Now I see...
You are one of my favorite authors, so I was surprised to see this new story of yours rated rather low. Now that I've read it, I can see why.
Hmmm...
Decent enough tale but why lie about being home when she was out at a reunion? Lost a point because of this.
bitch
That bitch sure in some group sex ....
Could have been good
But I agree with others,the ending sucks, because if the story with Mark is true (which of course could be bs,'Carol' could be a shill,and the wife's lying makes it tough to accept). Think about this,Barry is honest with Ryan,though he risks losing him,knowing the way Ryan feels,he is apologetic and honest.The wife?She claims she didn't tell him because 'I know the way you are', and then instead of admitting she fucked up, goes on the attack rather then show regret,which anyone who knows cheaters knows is a common way they defend themselves,blaming the victim. The reason this leaves a bad taste in the mouth is it doesn't settle the issue,I think JPB wants this to be a misunderstanding , but leaves ine feeling dischord, what in music they call uncompleted dissonance.
Bad, incomplete ending.....
This story has a ridiculous ending. Wife claims she isn't cheating? Hot wife of former BF conveniently shows up? Fine......Ryan tells everyone to take their cell phone out, and put it in the table, without changing or altering anything on them.... Of course, if Brooke objects or starts to turn pale, this isn't gonna turn out well....
1. Press 'Wife' or 'Carol' on Houser's phone. If Carol's phone doesn't ring, or another woman answers, Ryan explains to her where Houser is, asks where SHE is, and explain what is going on. Next more.....Divorce the cheating slut wife.
2. Look at Brooke's phone. ALL of the friends who were supposed to be there should be saved in her Friends list. Call them......ALLL of them, and ask them where they were on the night of the event. If they were not there.....Divorce the cheating slut wife.
3. Look at Brooke's text messages. See if she and Houser are sending nasty fuck-notes back and forth. If so......Divorce the cheating slut wife.
4. See if Houser has a recent call to an escort service. Call them, pretending to be him, and tell them the hot escort they sent over to roleplay his wife for the sucker husband was perfect. If they know what you're talking about.....Divorce the cheating slut wife.
NOW the story is....Bad Things....EXPOSED!
I don't get it
The writer offers us a set of facts. He even gives us a tone.
Here, the author is trying to lay down that the husband made an understandable assumption, but was incorrect. An escort won't gaze at someone with 'love in their eyes'.
I've had it done to me as well. The reader decides to add facts to a story to make the story what they want. You don't want the husband to be wrong? Her Little White Lie is now the Pentagon Papers. Wife is irate she is called a slut? It's because she is a remorseless she harpy and certainly NOT because she is an innocent wronged! She has to be EVIL.
The reader isn't 'wrong' if he INTERPRETS facts slightly differently AS PRESENTED. They ARE wrong when they add new facts which weren't in the story.
Occam's Razor. It removes a lot of thicket which obscures a story.
I got to admit that I am a bit uncomfortable when a wife's innocence isn't based on trust as a mature human being, but requires an affidavit from Four Men to prove her innocence. I think they use something like that up in Afghanistan.
Is that really how you want your daughters treated, assumed liars without evidence?
Yes there is room for doubt and I wouldn't blame this guy from asking a discreet question at the restaurant (but how do you trust the people there to not lie?)
But the going from zero to SLUT is a bit of jumping the gun.
Bullshit ending
If Brooke took that attitude with me she would still be divorced so fast it would make her head spin!
You don't lie to your husband about going out with your old boyfriend.
@FD45
I'm perfectly happy to accept that facts as written, even when the facts don't make sense, like why isn't Carol with Mark when he picks up Brooke, why does she lie when there is a perfectly innocent truth, why didn't the entire dinner party got to the house immediately to explain?
Why didn't she tell him about it, or schedule it for after his trip?
But having accepted the facts, and believing she is TOTALLY innocent, why is HE in trouble for making perfectly rational assumptions?
How do we know...
That Carol is really Mark's wife? Ryan has no proof and the Brooke and Ryan had ample time to make up the story and pay a prostitute to pretend to be Mark's wife.
How do we know Brooke and Mark were just old friends out for an evening with other old friends? Again, all we have is their word for it.
And Brooke clearly lied to her husband about her whereabouts when he called her and she believed him to be out of town on business. One does not consciously utter a lie and then dismiss it with as "a brain fart."
The fact that her first instinct was to lie to her husband in the real world would show a callous disrespect for him and also that she is probably lying about her other activities as well.
Basically this is just another JPB cuckold faggot story.
Really?
His insurance company pays the claim?
He just walks away from a accident that totals a car?
He inflates the accident value by $500 when the other driver was drunk?
He is ok without the additional benefits from the promotion?
He just buys the lie she told?
And we are just going to believe that he is able to close big business deals?
I call bullshit!
Fun
Another fun story from JPB, except he was Ryan this time. The facts and nothing but the facts? The author gave us a story with the focus on what happened in the day in the life of Ryan. How much more can anonymous want to add? That's his/her story but this one if Bob's. Another good job. Keep them coming.
Tiny Tim
Never thought I'd say this
Never thought I'd agree with an anonymous user (granted that was because most of them are trolls), but I have to agree with the guy that had a comment titled "How do we know?" How is it that we know Carol is his wife? She could have actually asked the boss when he was home and hired someone to pose as the ex-boyfriend's wife. I'd have needed a bit of evidence and I think it would provided a bit more to the story.
I don't get you people and your stupid complaints.
Think of that new truck. Bet it's black, big HD diesel, mag wheels. I can hear it now when he starts it up,that low distinctive grumble and rumble of power. Damn it Brooke; get out there, I want a classic Camaro next! Make daddy happy! Maybe a new boat. Think of the rooster tails out on the river! Rock on baby girl!
Jedd Clampett
@sbrooks103f
To make a story you need some contrivance. Dominos going wrong or correctly just the right way for extended drama to ensue. The husband has to miss the flight JUST when the wife is spreading for the neighbor. The woman talking to her lover on a landline exactly where the husband can hear her.
If Carol was with Brooke, if the husband waited around the restaurant, if he had answered ONE FUCKING PHONE CALL, the story would have deflated or been very different. That is not the story that Bob was writing.
THIS story was about husbandly comeuppance. It was a story about a husband making a wild jump to conclusions and him suffering as a result.
Why is he suffering as a result?
Well, let's look at any number of stories in LW. A woman is given a photo or hears a story from a friend and suddenly WHAM, the husband gets divorce papers at work (usually along with a contrived restraining order, a contrivance of it's own) and the wife, never, not once, lets the husband have his say.
We are supposed to feel for the put upon husband, trying to prove his innocence. We are supposed to think the wife is blatantly unfair, even if she has a photo (ala Dig Two Graves) of husband fucking some other woman.
She should have let him have his say.
Are you suggesting that if a WIFE is innocent of infidelity, screamed at by the husband and shut out, she shouldn't feel any of the upset that we are so happy to applaud when it is a man?
She knows that simply holding a man's hand for a moment or giving him a peck on the cheek is enough to get her divorced. One bump in the road, and hubby won't let her have her say and will toss her in front of the bus.
How would you feel if you got a hug from some random 'huggy' woman and your wife tried to divorce you?
Bear in mind, I do not think she is fully justified in her upset. But I understand it.
As far as her 'story', I can think of 6 different ways to verify if she is lying or not without thinking, starting with just asking 'Carol' to see her driver's license. You think an escort will have a fake id? You think Barry at work will lie for her?
At this point, for the wife to be guilty, she needs to have an entire conspiracy of liars to cover for her. But some readers would prefer to believe a conspiracy than in a wife's innocence. Hmm.
So either the wife is as bald faced a liar as Bill Clinton, or she is innocent. From the facts and the tone, JPB is obviously going for the later.
@FD45
Um... you seem to have forgotten, I hate to mention it, but, "I'm in the basement, doing laundry." The lie began the whole shenanigans. The lie, FD45, we can't forget the lie. No lie, none of it happens. Someone who has just lied to their husband, directly, and has been caught in the lie, and was with an old boyfriend, whom she lied about being with, can hardly pretend moral outrage at being accused of cheating. Abject apology is in order, not outrage.
Not at all Kimi
Shrug
Scenario: I am going to lunch, minding my own business, when Stephanie, the Hottie who works for XYZ corporation, comes up and gives me a big hello hug. "You big lug! I'm glad I caught you before we did negotiations about M. Let's go! I won't take no for an answer. Lunch is on me."
So she drags me (not terribly unwillingly because, hey, low cut blouse) to some place to eat.
Wife if stridently filing her nails when I get home and asks how my day was. "Okay. I guess."
"So nothing special?"
"Not really." I say. I had a business lunch. In public. Albeit with a girl with 36DDs, but that seems...impolitic to say to the wife and can just lead to 'trouble'.
Since I wasn't motorboating her, it was JUST LUNCH.
The next day I get served at work for divorce and wifey will not take my calls.
Do I have any room to be upset?
@FD45 Re: "Not at all Kimi"
In your example HE didn't lie, well maybe a little bit by omission, so of course he was right to get upset at being served divorce papers!
In THIS story she LIED, and unless I'm misremembering wasn't served with divorce papers, I don't think he even formally accused her of cheating, he simply thought she was cheating, and repeating myself for the umpteenth time, with GOOD CAUSE!
Hang on there, Sport...
Our Girl still gots some 'splainin' to do. So instead of taking her own car to the get-together, she has old boyfriend pick her up, by himself, when her husband is out of town? Then lies to keep husband from finding out? Raises questions about what she was planning on doing after dinner, if she hadn't gotten busted, eh?
Then when they're all going to straighten everything out, why is old boyfriend riding with Our Girl, instead of his own wife, especially when said wife doesn't know her way around town?
I don't think she's cheated -- yet -- but she's got no business getting on her high horse, and he might ought to keep that funny business detector in working order.
:-/
you are so weak JPB. I cant believe you are listening to these morons and started making your stories more nice and mainstream. I miss your cheating, one night stand, gangbanging, 3 hole exwives, girlfriends, neighbors, aunts, mothers, daughters, sisters etc you used to write about. But hey, if writing "aww shucks" erotica makes you think you are growing as a writer, more power to ya...
"I'm in the basement doing laundry", 100% lie, WHY? Because Brooke had INTENT to CHEAT in her mind or she was in the process of CHEATING. Brooke goes out with ex-boyfriend and does not tell Ryan - again Brooke had INTENT to CHEAT. Carol who is new to the city and gets lost was not in the Houser's car when picking up Brooke?!?
Cut your losses and walk/run from this almost whore. It's just a matter of time and she is going to CHEAT if the deed hasn't already happened. Or be a Cuck?!?
Lying and it's only a brain fart?
Don't think so.
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