Finally, after I had been retired for 8 years I put my foot down.One weekend I again brought up the possibility of her retiring and us beginning our t...ravels. She once again began to list reasons why she couldn't do so at that time. I finally looked at her and said "OK, fine but this spring I am going to be gone a lot. I'm not getting any younger and I am going to begin traveling with or without you."Jolene looked at me in shock and said some rather scathing things. This began the first of our. I had arrived a little early and, as I sipped my coffee I became aware of a young woman standing at the counter ordering her drink. She was wearing the tightest white jeans and I became mesmerised by her perfectly pert bottom as she moved. I remembered back through the years to when mine was like that and gradually realised that, as she stepped to the side to await her drink, my thoughts were becoming somewhat less than wholesome. I began to imagine her naked, what she looked like and what it. “Red is the reigning champion.”“I’m in.”A gaggle of girls of all shapes and sizes surrounded Yellow in the now unused sorority gym. She stood on extremely soft padding covered by a slippery plastic sheet. A medical student sat far off in the corner of the room ready to assist if any of the girls got injured. The referee, Pledge 3 sat beside her.Yellow stood above one of the top 3 cat-fighters in the sorority, victorious. The poor girl didn’t stand a chance. Yellow’s experience being bullied. I'm a mermaid, she thought, her mind focused solely upon that one concept. I'm a mermaid. I'm a mermaidamermaidmermaidmer... She had been thinking the single thought for the last five minutes, unable to wrest her eyes from the vision of her tail. She hadn't moved it once since she'd come to rest on the rock, fearing to do so, because if it was a real tail, then she was truly fucked, and if it wasn't real, then she was just as truly fucked. Finally she could stand it no longer. Ever so slightly.