Tilly and Elmer FlashbackX (4) - The Breast Laid Plans (Tilly and Elmer FlashbackX - Coming of Age in South Branch, #4)

If you've read any of the short stories in the Tilly and Elmer series, you may have wondered how much more adventuresome Tilly and Elmer must have been as teenagers. Now it can be revealed! In the Tilly and Elmer FlashbackX series, our favorite sexagenarians describe, in sometimes hilarious and sometimes scandalous detail, their slow motion coming of age in the Midwest in the early sixties. From their clumsy first date to the first time they go "all the way" (on the second try), you'll gasp at Elmer's inexperience, smile at Tilly's (real or faked?) innocence, and perhaps shed a tear of empathy at the blundering beauty of their first time.
Book4, The Breast Laid Plans, follows Elmer's carefully worked out plan for removing Tilly's bra and delighting her with a "massage". Not all plans work perfectly though, and this one runs into two problems.
Elmer drove by Old Man Smith's farmhouse and turned right at the crossroads. Before long he slowed down, turned off his headlights, and turned into the short driveway leading to the lane behind the hedgerow.
"Elmer, where are you taking me?" asked Tilly, with a distinct lack of concern.
"I thought you might like to go apple picking. You know, just like Adam and Eve."
"There won't be any apples on these trees for six more months, Elmer!" Tilly pointed out.
"Well, I guess we'll just have to think of something to do while we're waiting then, won't we?"

Gene Clements is a retired architect and educator. He began the Tilly and Elmer series by writing the first couple of paragraphs of a story about a frisky older couple. His friends thought they were funny and wanted to know how the story was going to end. Now they know, for better or worse!
Gene grew up in a small town in the Midwest although he now lives in California. He thinks he's eighteen, but he's really the same age as Tilly and Elmer. These stories aren't necessarily autobiographical in any specific detail (and he wouldn't tell if they were) but the flavor of the stories will be familiar to many readers, especially if they've found their athleticism diminished but their friskiness intact or if they grew up at a time and place where sex was never mentioned, except to warn young people against it.