Jerry continues his story, pt 1

At first, Jerry didn't give the remote any throught. He figured somebody would come around looking for jacket and the remote, so Jerry stuck them under the bar and forgot about them. He probably would've handed them back no issue, if not for a twist of fate.

The day after the bathroom incident, on Saturday, Jerry was cleaning up with LaToya, who he paid part-time to wait and bus tables on busy days. There had been something on TV, some annoying actor joking about his ex-wife, and LaToya (arm full of empty glasses) had asked Jerry to turn it off. Without looking up from the receipts, Jerry grabbed the remote and hit what he thought was the power button.

After a few minutes, Jerry noticed he couldn't hear the sound of LaToya working. He looked up.

"LaToya, you okay? LaToya?!" The part-time waitress stood stock still, frozen in place, bent at the waist with her butt out as she picked up a glass with one hand and held a tray of glasses in the other. Jerry stared in horror and wonder at the scene, then looked down at the remote on the counter and realized it was the one he took from the mystery guy's jacket.

He looked over the seemingly impossibly array of the buttons -- too many for the remote to actually have, that seemed to shift and flow in front of his eyes. Too curious for his own good, Jerry began to press what looked like a volume button, labeled "age." LaToya was in her early thirties and slowly, her laugh lines faded and her skin cleared up, a few inches disappeared from her hips, and her shoulders straightened. Her appearance youthened subtly and until (Jerry realized with a start) she looked with a fresh-faceed college kid. He crossed himself.

But he didn't stop. His pants were straining and tempted, he found another button - "bust." He tapped it up and up until LaToya's shirt tented outward, then shifted, accomodating new-found cleavage that hung down over the table she was cleaning. Jerry examined the remote again and he found a whole new set of buttons. "Obliviousness." "Wits." "Agency." "Compliance." "Biological clock." "Flirtatiousness." "Arousal." "Trust." "Perversion."

Jerry quickly returned LaToya's body to how it had been, then unpaused her and quickly hide the remote. She brought the glasses back to the bar like nothing had happened, and asked why Jerry was blushing furiously as he counted the register. He insisted it was nothing.