‘Goodnight, I’ll see you in the morning.’ And then you walked away, to your beat up old pickup truck. I got in my blue Malibu and drove to my pa...rents’ house where I was staying while I was in town. I walked inside to see that no one was home and went upstairs into my childhood bedroom. It was still the same as when I left it when I was seventeen. The walls were still a butterscotch color with suns, moons and stars as a border. I lay down in my bed and tried, unsuccessfully, to sleep. Tossing. ‘You may not be here to win any friends, but you already won one in me, Mr. Weaver.’ He and Gary smiled at each other, a common understanding passing between them. ^^^ Ms. Baldwin fairly simmered in rage as the rude man and his little intern went through her office and grabbed files. ‘I thought the South was supposed to have ‘Southern Gentlemen,” she said harshly. ‘Nah, those are just little pussies that can’t get laid,’ Gary said and smiled tightly at her shocked expression. Within two hours,. I had thought about stripping down to my underwear at least four times during the drive. The drive had been so damn long and I was definitely not used to this kind of heat. I live in New York for God Sake! I left my house at 5 o’clock this morning and now, as I looked at the dashboard clock, it was quarter after six. ‘ Shit, I hope he’s not freaking,’ I thought to myself as I pressed on. I quickly glanced at my map, Louisville, Kentucky had been my destination and finally I was there. I pulled. The time flew by, because we couldn't afford to hire anybody to do the work that needed to be done to get the property back into prime condition. Several times I asked myself why it needed to be in prime condition, but the answer was obvious. I probably wouldn't teach Chinese at Marsden forever ... and someday I'd have to sell the property. It needed to be as valuable as possible when that day arrived.It wasn't that I was already thinking of moving on. I wasn't. But the military had taught me.