SWINGING MOMENT #16: A CARPET BURN, AND NOT FROM SEX!

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There was one couple who were keen to meet my partner and I, they were also keen to be invited to our parties. The couple even invited us down to their place for dinner and presumably maybe more if things went well.

There was one drawback before we accepted their invitation even though they passed our above-the-line shaggable test and even though we had spoken to both on the phone. Our reservation was what one of our swinging couple friends had said about them. Swinging couples, especially those living quite close by, often knew of each other. Our friends warned us against the couple and, in particular, the male of the couple. They said he was a chancer only interested in shagging and not interested in making friends. We were social swingers; we liked shagging but we only wanted to shag friends.

My partner and I carefully discussed the couple's dinner party invitation and we decided to accept their invitation for dinner. We reassured ourselves that we didn't have to do anything other than eat their food. Because of the distance involved in meeting them, they lived about two hours by car from us, we also accepted their invitation to stay overnight in their spare bedroom.

On arriving at their place, dinner was soon served. Over dinner, the man kept talking about sex with my partner. He was being very explicit. This was highly unusual in our swinging experiences up to then (and even since then). I could tell that neither my partner nor the man's partner were impressed with his patter.

After dinner, the man invited my partner (not me) for a tour round his house. It wasn't a special house; it was just a two-down, two-up modern detached house in the middle of a middle class and suburban housing estate.

I was left with the man's partner downstairs in the lounge while they toured the upstairs of the house. It dawned on me that she wasn't interested in swinging. I asked her outright whether she was comfortable with swinging, she said she wasn't. I assured her that we won't be swinging tonight despite what her partner may have had in mind. It was very clear that they weren't singing from the same hymn sheet.

After a while my partner with the male came downstairs, not having done the deed. While downstairs we chatted. My partner was much better at making polite conversation than me; I just wanted to go home but couldn't because of the alcohol consumed.

At around 11 o'clock, my partner and I said we were tired and retreated to the spare bedroom.

We were the first to get up. We made ourselves coffee and made ourselves comfortable in the lounge. As I was sitting down on their sofa, I noticed a cigarette burn in the carpet near my foot. I was allowed to smoke in their home. After a brief discussion with my partner, as I was the only smoker, we deduced that I had caused this carpet burn in their cream carpet the night before.

We or rather I had a choice to make. I could confess and offer to pay for a new carpet or not confess. The English gentleman I am, I chose not to confess and to leave my coffee mug over the carpet burn before we said goodbye to them and left their house. Obviously I felt bad but clearly not that bad.

Have you not confessed something you've done to someone?

After the meet, they mailed us to say how much they enjoyed the evening and how they they wanted to come to our next party. Clearly the mail was written by him. And much to my relief there was no mention of a carpet burn in his mail. I had got away with it!

My partner and I decided that we would invite them to our next party, probably out of guilt as we owed them one. They came to our party and there was no incident between us or other couples who were also wary of him.

However, a few days after the party my partner received a text from the man saying he had just been diagnosed with an STI (sexually transmitted infection) and advised my partner to get checked out. It turned out that he shagged my partner doggy-style at the party; my partner said she didn't realise it was him shagging her until after the event. He was a chancer, albeit a responsible chancer.

PS. After that text, my partner and I immediately got tested. we were clean. Both of us got regularly tested throughout our swinging days.

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