There weren’t many reasons I could think of for her to want me on an investigation, and those I could think of weren’t good.“Okay, Mrs. Barnett�...�� I said. “Let’s suppose you just came in here to hire me. If the job interests me, won’t interfere with my other work, and if I like the client, I might take it. So spill.”“Simon is missing,” she plunged in. “I haven’t heard from him since he left Sunday before last. I need you to find him.”Simon Barnett was the president and majority owner of a. Her serious brown eyes were focused on mine, I felt like a teenager. I replied, “I went to an engineering college in the Midwest—you earn a Master’s degree in five years. It was called the three-two program which meant that all the undergraduate courses were taken in three years, and then you started the graduate courses. At the end of the fourth year I received my undergraduate degree and one year later I received my graduate degree. My emphasis was on desalinization and distillation of. She had a sister (Smoking!) and mother and father who stayed in XYZ. I gathered some courage and asked her if I could have her number. She gave a coy smile and asked: “Why?” Me: “So that I could, maybe… I don’t know… ask you out sometime?” Her: “Then why don’t you?” Me: “Why don’t I what?” Her: “Ask me out?”I was flabbergasted! I never had a woman hit on me. I told her that since we were both off the next day, if she would like to go out for drinks that night to which she agreed. We met in the. ... maybe a little too much time... After what seemed like a hundred reps, my arms started to shake. I couldn't hold the bar up any longer and I didn't even have the energy to put it back into it resting place. The bar and all it's weight came crashing down towards my face. Not even having the energy to move I shut my eyes and waited for the impact. I sat there for 5 seconds waiting for a huge headache, but it never came. I opened my eyes and saw a rather buff, brown hair, brown-eyed man.
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