” “Wow! I'm sorry.” “I'm not upset about it. I was expecting it. Actually I'm surprised they waited this long to do it.” “I knew you weren...'t happy there. How did they do it?” “At 10:00 this morning I was called into one of the conference rooms. All three of the partners were seated at the table. They didn't even ask me to sit. I was informed that my demeanor, behavior and dress were incongruous with the image the firm tries to maintain. I was given one weeks severance pay and thirty minutes to. Oh, well, it was keeping Nancy and me employed at the kind of job we loved!Our clients were getting more and more adventurous as we proved that we could protect them from anything that had come along, so far. I guess that we were in for a rude awakening when the other shoe finally fell. Nancy and I were escorting four teens to a gambling establishment down in Connecticut. I don’t know why their parents thought that just the six of us would be safe on the trip, and I don’t know why I was dumb. I was out walking my dog in the countryside, and as we cross into a field, I see a woman riding a huge horse towards us.As she approaches I pop the lead on my dog, and tie him to a post, not wanting to scare the horse. As she gets closer she waves to get my attention, and I start to get hard at the sight of her riding the horse in her tight tan jodhpurs, white blouse, and her long dark hair bouncing as she rides, my mouth goes dry, and my pulse quickens.She stops along side me, looking down. She had read up on meteorology, and found that she had to do well in math and certain types of science. That made her concentrate on math, and she found out that she really liked it. She was doing well in Chemistry, too. And Warren had truly re-awakened her love of reading, so English was coming along fine.The big problem was history. It was never her favorite subject to begin with-that had been her one C on her fourth quarter report card last year-and that was also the class where she had the.
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