Loading...I’m a sixty year old retired widower with completely gray hair, a little paunch and live in a very nice three bedroom house in Wichita, Kansas. I drive the obligatory, for guys of my age, late model Mercury Grand Marquis. Everyone tells me I am a good-looking guy who has aged well.
If I were trying to describe my interests I would only have to mention two. Travel and reading. I got away from buying the Book of the Month selections and now get most of my reading material from the nearby public library.
I was coming out of the library a few months ago and ran smack into a ton of police cars. The two almost blocking the library doors were from the Sheriffs office and I knew one of the deputies very well.
“Hey Jim, what the hell is going on. Did you come over here to get that instructional book on how to be a good cop?”
“Stuff it Gramps.” He replied with a laugh.
“What’s going on with all of this power?” I queried him.
“Aw, we got a report that some gal we are looking for was spotted here.”
“Well, I just came out of the library and only saw a few kids in there. She might have been down one of the rows I didn’t see.”
“Thanks, we’ll take a look see.”
As I was walking to my car out of the corner of my eye I noticed some movement near a Dumpster used by the variety store next to the library. Another few steps and I could see it was a gal in her early twenties and she was obviously trying to hide. I kept right on walking and when I got near the Dumpster I said in a low, but as clear a voice as I could muster.
“I will be pulling my silver Grand Marquis near this trash can in a few minutes and the right rear door will be unlocked. You will have about three seconds to open the door, dive in and pull the door shut behind you. You will then lay low on the floor behind my seat taking a travel blanket lying on the rear seat and pulling it over you. We can straighten all of this out once we get away from here.”
That all went like clockwork and as I was driving out of the lot I lowered my window and waved at Jim, the deputy, and wished him luck apprehending the gal they were looking for. He just yelled over at the other deputies checking out the cars leaving the lot,
“The old guy’s OK, let him pass.” I laughed and gave him the finger.
We got about a mile down the road and I heard a small voice from behind me,
“Why the hell are you helping me. You don’t know me from Madonna.”
“Good, cause I wouldn’t help that bitch at all.
“Then tell me ‘why me'”
“Well honey, when I was your age I was in more trouble than I could even think about. If it weren’t for some people giving me a helping hand back then I would probably be in the pokey right now.”
“Are you this nice to every one in trouble?”
“Nah, just the ugly ones.”
I felt her bang against the back of my seat and laugh, “You’re something else.”
“Look honey, I live a mile from here in a house with an attached garage. I am going to head there and you can get out of the car inside of the garage and enter the house unobserved. We can talk about all of this there and not have to worry about the law spotting you.”
“OK sounds great but I still don’t know why you are helping me.”
I used the electric garage door and opened and then closed the door as soon as we were safely inside.
“OK, Ms. Dillinger, you can get out now.”
The door from the garage leads into the kitchen and I told her to grab a chair at the kitchen table.
“Want a Coke or anything?” I offered.
“Yes, I would, thank you.” She replied.
“All right honey. Now tell me what this is all about.”
“It’s not as bad as you are probably thinking. I think I broke my boyfriends shoulder and probably his arm too. And then I might have also broke his leg as well.”
“Geez, did you leave anything on him unbroken? Tell me what happened.”
“Well we had a big argument about other girls I think he is seeing while he is telling me that I am the only girl in his life and he punched me in the stomach and then pushed me against the stove in a fit of anger.”
She pulled up her T-shirt to show me the bruise.
“Hold it right there and let me get a picture of that for you. The mark will fade in a few days and you won’t have any proof of his attack.”
I got a photo of that with her holding that day’s newspaper to show the day the pic was taken.
“I got upset with him treating me that way and grabbed a cast iron frying pan off the stove and hit his shoulder with the edge of it. I swung it as hard as I could and could hear the bones breaking as it hit.”
“Whew, you don’t fuck around when you get angry do you?”
“He reached for my hair and pulled it hard and I swung again and hit his arm and heard a bone crack there too. He fell and then kicked out at me and I took another swing and hit his shin with the edge of the frying pan and heard a bone snap there too.”
“Holy shit. They are going to go after you for attempted murder.” I exclaimed
“I ran out of the house and a neighbor woman gave me a ride to the library. I know the librarian and was hoping she would give me a ride someplace else when I saw the first police car arrive.”
“Well, calm down. You are safe in here as we think about what the next best move is for you.” I offered.
“Look, I don’t have any money to pay you with. I don’t have any clothes or means of getting any. All my stuff is at the apartment I shared with him and I don’t think I should go back there. Do you?”
“Not hardly honey.” I counseled.
“Honey, I’m Bill and I think I ought to know what you go by.”
“Oh, I’m JoAnn and I’m pleased to know you Bill.”
I was looking her over as she was telling me all of this and she had to be in her early twenties. She was fairly pretty and roughly five foot five inches and fairly slim. She didn’t have any tits to speak of but had a nice looking ass from what I could see of it.
“JoAnn, the refrigerator is right behind you and how about getting up and making us a sandwich for lunch. There is turkey breast and ham lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise just waiting for your magic touch.”
We ate and then sat around discussing some of the obvious options. I thought the whole thing was a straightforward problem.
“JoAnn you can’t simply turn yourself in without great legal representation. Your case has to depend on self-defense and I don’t think you want some real estate lawyer but you need someone who has had a lot of experience in these types of cases. Do you know anyone like that? If you don’t … I think I know someone who might.”
“No I don’t Bill but let me think on it and after a few days talk to some people who might know. My folks might but they live back east.”
“Well, when we get around to looking for that lawyer you can call your folks and let them ask the legal hot shots in their town if they know of any experts out here.”
“Hold on honey. I don’t know shit about the ability of the police to trace the location of a cell phone caller. But just to be certain, don’t even think of making any calls from your cell phone or the law will be on your ass before the call is even ended. When you want to call someone we are going to have to go someplace else and you can call on your cell phone from there so they can’t trace the call to a location you will be at when they get there. OK? This is serious shit now listen up.”
“OK Bill. What the hell did I ever do to deserve someone like you to help me out?”
“Ah, nothing other than to look as pretty as you do.” I joked.
“Bullshit, you couldn’t even see me hiding behind that Dumpster when you told me to jump in your car.”
“Maybe I have a soft spot for people in trouble.” I answered.
“Are you ever going to tell me the kind of scrapes you got into?” she asked
“Perhaps sometime, but not now.” I replied.
By then it was mid afternoon and we had both started on some wine with our lunch and when the bottle was finished switched over to some Dewars scotch and water.
“JoAnn, let’s get something straight right now. I think you can’t do anything intelligent about your situation for a couple of days. Both the county cops in conjunction with the state police will be out in force looking for you and you would be spotted in a second. They undoubtedly will be looking at every bus stop, train station and the airport for you. Bear with me but I think you need to calm down about the whole thing and wait a few days before you call anyone to help. If they ever ask you why you waited so long it is easy to explain you were scared to death to tell how you defended yourself from a huge bully like your boyfriend.”
“Bill, what do I do in the meantime. Are you saying I can stay here?”
“Well, I have three bedrooms and two bathrooms and you are welcome to one of each. There is a washer & dryer for your clothes and if you will give me your sizes I will go to Wal Mart tomorrow and pick up some stuff for you. I’ll go to the one east of here in case I see anyone I know and they get wondering why I am buying a bra and panties for myself.”
“You are something else,” she said through her scotch haze.
“Now listen and listen good. You have to stay as silent as a mouse while you are here. You NEVER answer the door or phone or make any calls. Keep in mind I can be charged with aiding and abetting if they find I am helping you. I wouldn’t think that would be a nice way of saying ‘thanks'”
“Bill, I have never known anyone as nice as you. Whatever can I do to repay you?”
“Just be your normal pretty self.” I answered.
The scotch was getting to me and I told her I was going to go in and take a little nap and sleep it off and if she wanted to do the same the bedrooms were directly behind her.
I wasn’t in bed for more than twenty minutes before I felt some scrambling at the side. I opened my eyes to see her naked body sliding in beside me.
“JoAnn, you don’t need to do this to repay me.”
“I know. I just wanted to do it,” she answered.
The next thing I felt was her hands massaging my cock and it didn’t take much of that before I had a raging hard one; the first I had in a long time. I then felt her warm and wet mouth circling my cock as she had lowered her face to and taken it in her mouth. I moved myself around to get my own mouth in line with her pussy and soon was doing my best to get her clit uncovered and ready for some serious tongue licking. It wasn’t long before I began to feel the warmth start deep in my balls and could feel the lips of her pussy pulsing with her own excitement.
My orgasm was more like an explosion. I shot stream after stream in her mouth to the point where it was pouring out of her from around my cock as she was unable to swallow it as fast as I was shooting it. Her own orgasm was only a minute later. She had lowered her hands to hold my face into her as she let go. Damn, the taste of a woman’s juices was a long forgotten sweet memory.
We both lay there letting our breathing return to normal and she finally looked up at me to say,
“Damn, you have a big cock and you sure shoot a lot of cum.”
“JoAnn, that was the first blowjob I have had in a long, long time.
“Jo Ann, how old are you?” I asked.
“Twenty-four; does that make a difference? she asked hesitantly.
“Not if you don’t mind having sex with a guy almost three times your age. I am sixty.”
“Well, then I’ll bet you will be able to teach me a lot I don’t know.” She said seductively.
“Geez, you are something else again. I guess we won’t need to mess up the other beds. This king- size will be ample for both of us.”
Both of us fell asleep within minutes of our sexual romp. I was sleepy with the booze I had consumed and she must have felt the same. We didn’t awaken until it was almost nine PM.
I awakened to her shaking me and telling me it was time to get up. She had cooked up a chicken dinner while I was asleep and it was ready. Damn, I might keep this kid around.
She had found some chicken in the fridge and some potatoes in the panty and veggies out of the freezer and she had made one hell of a great dinner. We sat at the dining room table naked as jaybirds and eating away. The more I looked at her the harder I got so when she asked if I wanted some desert I had to reply yes … I knew exactly the desert I wanted …her.
I told her we would clean up the mess later and took her hand and led her back to the bedroom.
“Bill, you have to go easy with me. You will have been the second guy I have ever had sex with and your cock is way bigger than my old boyfriend’s.”
I used my fingers to get her ready and then bent and used my tongue for the last bit of arousal before I rose back up and positioned myself between her legs and lined up the head of my cock between the sweet lips of her young pussy. She pulled me down to give me a huge tongue-searching kiss as I drove my rock hard cock deep inside of her. Her breaths were beginning to come faster and as my cock was in to the hilt she screamed out with more pleasure than pain. I was thankful I had a single-family house with no neighbors to hear her screams and loud moans.
I kept pounding away since I knew I wasn’t going to come too quickly. After all, I had just shot a huge load a few hours ago that was my first major orgasm in a long time.
It wasn’t long before her legs were wrapped around my back and pulling me ever deeper within her. If she hadn’t had that orgasm earlier today her pussy would have been tight at as a drum around my cock but as it was her juices let me slide in and out easily and not cause her any pain.
I removed her legs from my back and hooked my arms behind her knees and held her legs high in the air as I drove my cock deeper into her. She was throwing her head from side to side and biting her lower lip as her passion began to rise. It wasn’t long before I heard,
“Bill, I am going to burst with my orgasm.”
“Let it happen sweet thing. It will be the best orgasm you ever had.”
When she let go it was almost earth shattering. She screamed she was coming and then threw her ass up at me as hard as I ever felt before and pulled my face down to hers and soon had her lips pressed tightly against mine. We stayed like that for some time before we let each other go.
“JoAnn, I can do one of two things. I can go and get us each another drink from the kitchen or we can roll over and get some major shuteye.” Her answer was a huge snore.
The next morning she was up early and had cleaned up the mess in the dining room from last night’s supper. She had thrown her clothes in the washer and they were just about ready for the dryer.
“Honey, give me your sizes for panties, bra, jeans and tops. Also tell me the names of any medicines you need as well as simple cosmetics. I’m not going to embarrass the hell out of myself with a bunch of that shit.”
I left the house near ten AM and was finished at Wal Mart at noon and was back at my place a half-hour later. While I was away she had washed the kitchen floor and cleaned up both baths as well as stripped the bed and washed the sheets and pillowcases. She said she would have vacuumed but was afraid if anyone came to the door they would have heard the vacuum running and me not home. Smart Gal.
The morning newspaper was filled with the details of the story but the article played down the attack by her boyfriend. It simply said they had argued. The police had an APB on her for all over the state and down in Oklahoma as well.
“JoAnn Try on this stuff and make sure it fits. I am not the least bit interested if you don’t like the colors I picked just as long as you can wear them without looking too bad.” It turned out she liked the colors of the tops I chose, or at least she said she did.
“Honey, I don’t know why but I’m a little concerned about you being discovered here. I am thinking that we should take a trip out to Colorado for a few days while everything cools down and we can think about getting you the lawyer you need. The place I have in mind is remote enough we shouldn’t be bothered and there are several old time motels/hotels in the area so we shouldn’t have a problem getting a room.”
“How long a ride is it?”
“Well, I have my pilots license so I’ll be renting a plane and we would be flying rather than driving. There is a ton of military air space out in that part of the country that we will have to go around so it is about a four-hour flight but the weather forecast is for perfect flying weather. If you have never flown out there you will find the scenery to be spectacular.”
“Gee, you are full of surprises aren’t you?” She commented.
I left word with a neighbor I was going to catch one of the cheap flights down to Florida for a few days and would appreciate him keeping an eye on my place. He easily agreed. I felt I had to mislead him just in case anyone had seen her jump in my car and then have the police come knocking at my door. I was going to do another bit of deception that would further frustrate the police if they did get on my trail. I would leave my car at the Wichita airport and would rent a plane from a small outfit out near my house where I knew the owner under a different name. I could then file a flight plan for Colorado without much fear anyone would putting two and two together.
“JoAnn, I will take you out to the airport from where I will be renting the plane and you can wait in the visitors lounge while I drive my car to the Wichita airport and leave it in long term parking. I will get the parking lot shuttle back to the terminal and then go inside the entrance doors for departing flights and walk downstairs to the arrival gates. From there I’ll grab a cab to take me out to the field from where I’ll be renting the plane. Any questions?”
“No Captain.”
“You are a smart ass aren’t you? Keep in mind the Captain often fucks the flight attendants.”
The juggling of my car and the plane rental went as smooth as silk and I soon had the preflight inspection finished and we were off.
The take off and the first hour of the flight were thankfully completely uneventful. About ten minutes after reaching cruising altitude she asked what I was doing. I told her I was setting the autopilot and would be finished in a minute.
“Are you telling me that when you set that thing it will fly of us to the place where we want to go?”
“Well, it will do the legs of the flight I have programmed in but when we get close to our destination it will buzz and alert me that it is time for me to take over.”
“Oh good,” as she reached her hand over to my crotch and started a very light massage. The next thing I did was to raise my ass in the air to allow her to maneuver my cock and her hand to make things easier for whatever she had in mind doing.
It only took her a few minutes to get my cock out of my shorts and she then started something for which I was totally unprepared. She began to make love to my cock. She lowered her face to it and let her tongue trace the veins up and down and around it. She then had her tongue tracing around the rim of the head of it and up and down and around the head. All of this without ever taking a millimeter of my cock in her mouth. She had a hand lightly caressing my scrotum and finally taking my balls in her hand and massaging them very lightly. She then lowered her mouth closer yet and took the head in and began just sucking it while her tongue was flicking back and forth over it.
“JoAnn, this is wonderful but you are driving me crazy. Suck me deep honey.”
She then took a few inches in and began to bob up and down. She would let it come almost all of the way out and then she would drop down on it as far as she could handle and then back up and almost off again. Whew, it was terrific. All the time she was doing that with her mouth her hand was still active with my balls. She finally removed her mouth from my cock and replaced it with my ball sack. Her tongue was as busy with it as it had been with my cock. This woman knows how to suck a dick.
I could feel the pressure start and I reached around and grabbed my handkerchief from my pants pocket. If I was going to make a mess as I shot my load I wanted to be able to keep it from messing up the plane.
The pressure overcame me and I exploded. I quickly wrapped the handkerchief around the base of my cock so that any of my cum escaping her mouth would be caught in it. She bobbed a little more before I finally pushed her head away and leaned my head back to rest against the seat back as I came down from my high.
“JoAnn, I remember reading Erica Jong’s book in which she talked about The Flying Fuck. I don’t think she mentioned the Airborne Blowjob.”
“She should have. I looked up as I was sucking you off and could see your eyes sweeping over the instruments. I was glad you were taking such good care of us.”
The rest of the flight was uneventful and as we got closer to the Rockies she was overwhelmed with the scenery below. I have flown over it dozens of time and it still impresses me.
We landed at a small airfield about a hundred miles west of Pueblo, rented a car and drove into the nearby town and got a room at one of their rustic resort cabins overlooking a small lake. It was very nice. They had their own dining room and I had heard at the airport the food was good. Perfect.
We got settled in and went for a walk around the near part of the lake. It wasn’t a very big body of water but I was guessing it was a couple of miles around it. At one spot there was a little cove and we could actually see some pretty decent size fish splashing around. I was wishing I had a pole. When we got back to the lodge we headed to the lounge for a drink. There were a couple of other ‘father-daughter’ couples tucked into some of the cozier corners and more hidden tables.
We ordered our drinks and I started the conversation off with,
“JoAnn, tomorrow we are going to drive up to Colorado Springs to let you phone your father to see if he has any friends who can make a suggestion as to a good criminal lawyer in Kansas. We’ll give him a day or so but in the meantime I’ll make some calls to friends I have in Wichita. I think that between our two possibilities we should have a name in a couple of days. Then we’ll act on the one you select to represent you. What do you say?”
“That sounds good to me Bill. I am really going to be their mercy for I don’t know a damn thing about my legal rights in a situation like this.”
“Well, that’s why we are going to be getting recommendations from people who do know this stuff. I don’t believe you will be led astray.”
“Great. I don’t know how I am ever going to be able to thank you for all you have done and will be doing for me.”
“We’ll, the first think you can do is to stop asking ‘what you can do to thank me’. You don’t need to do anything and I would love for you to get that through your head. OK? Now, let’s go into the dining room for dinner.”
They had a wide range of dinner choices and we each selected steaks. Mine was going to be a Filet and she opted for a Rib Eye. Coupled with baked potatoes, asparagus and freshly baked bread and we had meals to end all thoughts of hunger.
The resort had just gotten cable TV the previous year and that made the evenings more bearable. We have become so used to the evening news and game shows we are lost without them, We locked onto the news and switched channels frequently to see if one had picked up anything about JoAnn’s situation the others had missed. Not a word, which was great.
All we had to do was to take it easy for another whole day. A leisurely drive tomorrow and then sit back and wait.
We hit the sack fairly early that night. The drive was only going to be about ninety miles so we weren’t facing any long overland driving journey.
She was in the bed first and as I got in I instantly turned her over and spooned to her. Just cuddling my crotch against her ass was all I needed to get me aroused. I pulled back a bit to make room for my cock getting lined up with her pussy and once I had it directed right I grabbed her hips and pulled myself into her. She let out a huge moan and reached around her ass to pull me in to her even further than I had done. I hadn’t made more than a thrust or two before she was throwing herself back at me harder than I had planned on doing to her. We kept it up for a few minutes before I rolled her over on her stomach with me on top and just began fucking her as if I was fucking her ass. She instantly lifted her hips higher to give me a clear shot and then threw it up at me hard. I was holding my chest off her with my hands positioned on the bed alongside of her while thrusting my cock in her hard and deep.
“God Bill, you are going to split me open. Take it easy please.”
Bullshit, I was a minute away from exploding and it was going to happen just like this.
I gave one or two more hard thrusts and I was filling her young pussy with my white-hot come. I kept on thrusting a few more times and she had her orgasm a minute or two later.
“Whew, that was almost more than I could handle. You were really worked up.” She muttered.
“Honey, I get worked up every time I see your sweet young ass.”
It didn’t take us long to fall asleep. It was probably the excitement of all that happened that day in getting there but we were both asleep in a very few minutes.
The drive over to Colorado Springs went very well. There is some spectacular scenery along those highways and some of it took our breath away. I gave her money to buy a cell phone that included thirty minutes of airtime anyplace in the country so they couldn’t trace her call through her own cell phone company. We drove around a bit tying to get the strongest signal before trying the hookup. There is a little park close to the center of town that was perfect. We got a parking spot on the nearby street and found a park bench that would work just right. She dialed her parent’s home and her mom answered.
“Oh JoAnn, we have bee so worried about you. The police have been calling and calling asking if we had heard from you.”
“Mom, I need to speak to Dad. Is he there?”
“No honey, he left for his office an hour ago so you should be able to get him there. Are you OK baby?”
“Mom, I’m fine. Honest. I’ll call Dad at his office.”
She called his office and had him on the line in a few seconds. She took a minute or so to tell him of the problem and then asked the question about his knowledge of a good lawyer in Kansas. No name came to him immediately and he asked for some time to think on it. She promised she’d call him back either later that day or early the next and disconnected. I used the same phone to call a lawyer friend of mine in Wichita telling me of the situation and asked for his recommendation. I asked if we could use him for future calls since they would have a hell of a time getting permission to tap a lawyers phone for a case like this. He agreed.
He thought for a bit and then almost jumped down the wire at me,
“Bill, I know the perfect guy” and gave me his name. “Would you like for me to call him first to alert him of your call and then give him a brief synopsis of the situation.” I was as excited about his recommendation as he seemed to be and quickly agreed.
Coincidentally Jo Ann called her dad that afternoon and got the name of the same Wichita lawyer as my friend had provided. Two strong recommendations for the same guy were good enough for JoAnn and she called him later that day. He listened carefully to her version and told her he would check with the Wichita police and the District Attorney in the morning and asked how soon she could return to Wichita. She in turn asked him if she returned without anything being done on her behalf wouldn’t she be subject to immediate arrest and be jailed. He told her she had misunderstood him. He wanted her to return to his office and the two of them would visit the DA’s office together.
She and I had discussed this possibility prior to her calls and agreed we could leave Colorado first thing in the morning and be back in Kansas by noon. She told the lawyer that and he asked that she meet him in his office as soon as she got to town.
Well, to make a long story a lot shorter JoAnn was never prosecuted for the crime. The DA agreed she had acted in self -defense and they were thinking of prosecuting her ex boyfriend for roughing her up. She asked that they not do that if they could get a restraining order keeping him from being anywhere near her. The DA asked about my part in all of this and we both just played dumber than skunks and the whole thing was forgotten.
We left the lawyer’s office hand in hand and I took her to my place. She and her boyfriend had encountered each other in the office of the DA with the Chief of Wichita’s police department present and both the DA and the Police Chief told him if he went anywhere near her again his ass would be in jail before sundown.
When we drove into the garage she asked if she could enter the house through the front door rather than the way she had before. She said she felt like a thief when she had to sneak in through the garage. She stayed with me for another couple of weeks while she was getting her life back in order. Needless to say while she was staying with me we enjoyed the same type of sex we had up until then and if there hadn’t have been such a wide disparity in our ages something might have happened between us. All things considered she was better off getting the life of a twenty four-year-old gal back on track.
Our last night together before she moved was nice. She mentioned she had noticed a huge whirlpool bath tub in the master bath and wondered if we could relax in it before we hit the sack. I readily agreed and when she called me later saying she was already in the tub and what was taking my tired old ass so long and for me to get a move on. What a nice surprise when I entered the bath. She had candles lit on ever ledge and nook and cranny of the room with a bottle of wine and two glasses and a plate of various kind of cheese sitting on a little ledge that is part of the tub for things just like this.
We lounged in the tub for a long time laughing uproariously at times about the condition she had put her boyfriend in and then just reminiscing about our little trip out to Colorado. She loved the excitement of the flight and hiding away in the rustic log cabin I had rented for our stay.
When we left the tub we took turns drying each other off and she mischievously spent more time drying my cock than was necessary. By the time she was finished it not only was dry but harder than a steel rod. I wasn’t going to allow that night to just be for my pleasure so I pushed her gently onto the bed and then lay beside her. I let my fingers wander over almost every inch of her stopping off at some of the more interesting spots. I then let my tongue visit all of the same places. I finally rolled between her legs and just let my mouth, fingers and tongue do all they could to arouse her. She hadn’t said a word but I finally looked up at her to see she had taken the corner or the pillow and was biting down on it as hard as she could. She didn’t want the sounds of her arousal to disturb the night. When I thought she had taken as much as she could I raised from between her legs and slid up and pushed my cock deep inside of her. My thrusts were slow but deep. She soon had her arms around my neck and her legs around the backs of my legs. We fucked long and slowly for what seemed forever before we both let go. If our orgasm weren’t simultaneous they were damn close. Afterwards we just lay in each other’s arms and that was the way we fell asleep.
We saw each other from time to time for the first few months after she left my house when she moved east for a job she had been offered. We phoned each other every now and then and the calls finally faded into first two weeks then three then a month and finally they stopped altogether and my memory of a bit of excitement faded as well.