Nugatory Task













I must say, it feels like nugatory work - attempting to lickshine the mud of this young woman's boots - because:

  • My menial mouth is unable to reach the uppers of her red ankleboots, given that my humble head and neck are confined and collared in the dirty ground 
  • Many of the mud stains on her boots seem deeply ingrained
  • She is going to have to walk across further mud anyway when she turns to leave me, since the authorities have cruelly and mockingly positioned me in the middle of a building site (as you can see, one of the female construction workers has even placed a traffic cone on top of my head, just to add to my humble appearance!)
But it is not my place to question a customer's motives; I'm just a slave! If the young woman wants her boots licked, then licked they shall be!

She makes no comment on my inadequacies as she turns to leave, but I hang my head in abject shame at the remaining mud still stuck to her boots!

My trepidation increases as she gets nearer


Not just because I am in a vulnerable position...


...but because cleaning these red boots will be a nugatory task


We are surrounded by mud and filth!


So any mud I remove will quickly be replaced by fresh mud!


At least her socks look clean!


I do my mud-level best


A customer's wishes MUST be fulfilled


For the customer is always right!


She kindly gives me every opportunity to do a good job!


She seems to be in no hurry


Though she remains silent


Why would she speak to a humble, public bootlicker?


My job is to clean her boots; not chat with her!


I am too far beneath her on the social scale to chat with her!


Her muddy boots taste vile


But I must ensure my tongue does not baulk at the taste!


Even if my feckless face betrays my distaste!


This is my 'bread and butter'...


...boot and shoe mud!


It should be an acquired taste for me by now...


...since I am having to lick muddy shoes and boots 24/7!


The bright young woman ensures I lick BOTH her boots


Licking only one boot would be an even more nugatory task!


She makes no comment when she eventually turns to leave


But I can see, to my shame, that her boots are still muddy!


I have failed to clean them adequately!


I am a useless waste of space!


I hope she doesn't complain to the municipal authorities...


...and thus have me removed from my muddy spot


For I've come to appreciate it...


licking the boots and shoes of my betters in this muddy field!


...and getting to admire their socks!


Who knows what she's thinking inside that pretty head of hers


Maybe she just wanted to humiliate me...



...with a nugatory task!



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