Did you guys act like good boaters and put on life jackets?"Tiny said, "As soon as the seas began picking up, I made sure that Ruth and Nancy were pro...tected. Henry and I put ours on as it got rough, and Henry got all of our emergency gear out when it got scary. We would have made it if we capsized, but it wouldn't have been much fun."The squall began hitting us here in the park after being cloudy and windy for an hour or so. The wind was driving the rain almost sideways as it blew through the. It was ashot of a woman in a girdle, talking on the phone. She was saying, "Butwhen I signed up at your gym to get a new body," said George, "thisisn't what I wanted. And now you're telling me I won a free lifetimemembership." Despite my upset, I smiled. Those images and words alwaysbrightened my day. Then I went on to see the new stories. My eye wascaught by one by another favorite writer, Thorn. It was titled THEYMADE ME A SISSY and the author had done his usual deft job of writing. Even in good times farm life is stillhard. The farmers in this region have a deep religious background and thispermeates from the job into the family life and upbringing of the children.The church has an enormous hold over the lives of the people. FatherJohn, the local Catholic priest had only been in this part of thecountry for about a month. He was just starting to get use to the rurallife, his other parishes being in very large cities. He had been on a"retreat" forthe last six months, the. I wasn't too keen on office parties but this one was fun and business had been very good this quarter.I was feeling a bit drunk from the cheap wine and champaign and I had to have a seat in my cubicle for minute. I could hear the party going on in the main meeting hall in the the distance and after a while someone came through the doors from the party. I could hear someone walking around and some girlish giggling.Then she appeared from around the corner, it was Sue who had the cubicle next to.