Ms. Pruitt’s Washateria and Whorehouse
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Ms Pruitt's Washateria
Ms. Pruitt never really claimed to run a whorehouse. She had the only hot running water in town and at the time owned the only brick building in town. She lived upstairs with some of her ‘nieces’ who helped out in the washateria. Was a need for the washateria cause very few folks had running water in they houses at the time and nobody that I know of had a hot water heater and sure as hell did not own a washing machine. Home washing was done in a boiling black pot over a wood fire and scrubbed on a washboard. Even Ms. Pruitt didn’t have dryers, the ladies just washed they clothes and used the wringers that was on top of the machines to squeeze most of the water out and took the wet laundry home and hung it on a close line like you supposed to. Was a large farming community so it was a pretty successful business. Of course the women all had to get home in time to cook supper and hang up the clothes so there was no business at night.
Ms. Pruitt added another service to her business. That actually was providing hot showers to all the sweaty hardworking men folks at the end of the day. She only charged a dime for the showers and furnished clean towels and plenty of lye soap which was what they used in the washateria also. The women folks appreciated this cause it relieved them of the chore of heating up a tub of water for the menfolks and when they came home for supper they were all nice and clean and smelled pretty good.
Ms. Pruitt’s nieces added a extra service for the menfolks. For an extra dollar, they would wash they backs and if the menfolks so desired, the nieces would take them upstairs and offer them some ‘relief’. I never really knew what they meant by that.
I went to school and played basketball, but I was ten years old and a little mature for my age and was embarrassed to get naked in front of the other six guys on the basketball team, so I would go to Ms. Pruitt’s and take a shower. Ms. Pruitt always liked me and never charged me cause I didn’t have no dime anyhow. She would often step into the shower with me and wash my back and finally one day, offered to take me upstairs and give me some ‘relief’ cause ever time she washed my back, I got this enormous erection which I tried to hide but usually she would just slap the hell out of it and laugh about it. This fateful day, she took me upstairs and gave me some ‘relief’. I found out later that she had actually taken my virginity from me, but I was so nervous about the whole thing, I can’t to this day remember what actually happened except she got all hot and sweaty and squealed and moaned a lot and I had to go take another shower.
I told my older brother about this and he really didn’t believe me. He had some money, not much, but he often had the dime to go there and take a hot shower. They was no hot water at the school showers. Ms. Pruitt nor her nieces had ever offered to take him upstairs and offer him any ‘relief’. I told him about the menfolks I had seen go upstairs and get ‘relief’ and explained to him that they always charged an extra dollar for that.
The very next day he did some work for a neighbor and made thirty five cents so he hooked it over to the washateria and paid the dime for the shower and asked one of the nieces if he could go upstairs and get some ‘relief’. When they got upstairs, she asked him for the dollar and he explained that he only had twenty five cents. She beat the living shit out of him. He came home with a busted lip and two black eyes and some really sore balls where she had kicked him and threw him down the stairs. Only thing he said before he snuck off and went to bed was “Damn! I don’t think I could have took a dollars worth of that.”
Believe this story or not, makes no nevermind to me.
Manny
21 Aug 2002
