He looked distracted, and nodded his head slightly. I knew what he was distracted by. I turned on my heel and made my way to his office. I turned and ...caught him staring at my ass. "Are you coming?" I asked, acting completely clueless. "Yes, of course," he replied and caught up with my pace. We entered his office and the stack of papers that once sat on the corner of his desk were nothing but a few stray papers. I looked back at him with a puzzled look on my face. "Believe it or not, I got bored. That was just across the hall, so I was there at a real slack time as far as the bartender was concerned. He sold me a mug of the local beer for 4¢, and I wondered why it was priced so high after I tasted it. It was not the worst beer that I had ever drunk, but it did come close.The bartender was the garrulous sort, and it did not take much to have him talking a blue streak. I asked about any strangers in town who seemed to have too much money. His answer was that he had seen five such men, but. "You would receive twenty percent of the outstanding F & C shares to complement your investment, and as payment for your company's good will. We stand to gain a lot with your name as president."I nodded. It didn't sound too adventuresome yet."The component assembly operation would be under your supervision. Our belief is that you can implement the kinds of quality control that will be essential to restore our good name. In return, you would receive a further twenty percent of our F & C shares.. Despite the warning, I wasn't prepared for it, and I went face-down into musty-smelling gravel.I lay prone for a moment, trying to process what I dearly and fervently hoped was a miraculous escape. Part of my brain of deathly afraid that this whole exercise was going to be a virtual reality tour from hell dreamed up by Dr. Demented, and I was going to look up to see him laughing at my thinking I had escaped.But I figured I had to move sometime, so after a moment I cautiously raised my head.With.