”When Ted turned to put the tape in, the hand that had squeezed Del’s thigh now snuck up the leg of his shorts and gave his balls a squeeze. “W...hat the fuck is this.” Del thought.“Listen Del you can’t dance on one leg, have another one, as Carol said it improves with age.”“Okay.” Del’s reply surprised him, and he was sure the room was spinning a bit, as he downed the second shot. He was having difficulty finding a place to rest his left hand without having it rest on Carol who had moved. The seat was all the way forward and I had to pretzel my legs to give her room to reach the pedals. Laughing with delight she pressed on the gas, steered back onto the blacktop then began to drive in earnest. She was concentrating on the road, on keeping between the shoulder and the white centerline. Pepper was tense, jerking the wheel left or right, she wasn’t swinging so far as to leave the blacktop, but was causing the truck to lurch quickly from side to side. Twice she froze solid,. In fact, I had another one of those dreams last night. It was the middle of the day when I arrived in Vegas. The sun was hot and high in the sky. I stopped the car in front of a house I had never seen before. Opening the door, the heat of the desert surrounded me as I tried to focus on the environment around me. The house was large and majestic. The front yard was a wide expanse of tropical trees and desert flowers. Walled flower beds overflowed in a riot of color. Frozen, as though time. This is the first showing when I was home." So you're still packing up to move?" she asked."Yeah, slowly."Gail laughed, "I know how that is. What is that for?" she asked pointing to a large wooden X mounted on the wall with eye-bolts at the ends of each of the arms of the X." Uhm, It's just a piece of exercise equipment," he said."I see," she said. And what is this thing?" she asked pointing to an, obviously, home-made 4' cube plywood crate with a two-piece padded top with a 6" hole in the.