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Exposé: The Seduced Seducer

Short Story from the book "Men - Mischief - Murder" by Elsegret Ruge
Cover and illustrations: Bernd Kahlert

Olaf Melzer is a womanizer. He chases every skirt, enchants the women, infatuates, and seduces them, then he discards them. This happened to Doris, Rita and Marlene, his colleagues at the car dealership, where he sells expensive cars preferably to women. His three victims crave for revenge. They spread the rumor that Olaf is bisexual and belongs to the sado masocastic scene. They put obscene advertisements in special magazines to find thrilling partners for him.

Olaf flirts with a homely, middle-aged woman, when his first contact from the magazin appears: Detlef is a true bird of paradise! In a deep, seducing voice Detlef whispers: "Hi Olaf, my sweetheart, why are you messing around with a woman? Did I catch you betraying me?" Olaf is upset! Like a madman, he hits poor Detlef, who tumbles backward into a huge flower pot. Like a plucked rooster, Detlef lies in the destroyed plant. Onlookers flee in panic.

The manager threatens to fire Olaf without further notice, if anything similar happens again. Olaf is very concerned, he desperately tries to answer a lot of competent questions of an elderly gentlemen who wants to buy a used car. The loudspeaker sounds: "Mr. Melzer, an urgent call for you at the switchboard! Mr. Melzer, please!" The phone operator, who also has been one of his victims, switches the call to the loudspeaker system. Everywhere in the workshops, offices, and showrooms the speakers come to life when a deep male voice whispers: "Hi, dearest Olaf, here I am, your strong and sexy pink panther with the long tail! I am as hot as you are, and I will satisfy every special demand!"

An inhuman scream nearly ruins the loudspeakers, then silence - still as death! Now roaring laughter, Olaf's colleagues are cheering with elation, their malicious joy does not end. In the showrooms, people are frozen in embarrassment. Blushed with shame, Olaf hurries back to his customer, who looks at him reproachfully: "I just learned that you have an interesting date with your pink panther tonight. I would not rob you your time with him." The customer hurries away, and Olaf is shocked. How did he get the news? The manager dismisses Olaf immediately. Marlene gleefully enlightens Olaf that his appointment with the pink panther has been transmitted over the speaker system, and that everybody has laughed about his secret private life. Cheers of malicious joy accompany his departure.

In the evening, Olaf's apartment is besieged by wild-looking men with chains, leather clothes, and helmets. Marlene hands them the key to the apartment: Now Olaf would no longer seduce harmless women, he would be seduced himself! The three revengers leave him to his lovers. Next morning, the headlines of the tabloids read: "Crime in Homosexual Scene! Car Seller Brutally Raped, Chained to his Bed, and Robbed by his Lovers!" A photo shows Olaf in his dark blue custom suit in front of his sports car. The working day in the car dealership goes on, but the content smiles of his collegues do not disappear.