Everyone thought it had just gone too far." I don't see why there were riots then when most people had enough to eat; when people thought plague and f...amine was banished forever; when ordinary people could drive cars and didn't have to buy household electricity in portable batteries; when Norfolk still existed as a county and London wasn't flooded half the time; when, for fuck's sake, Israel was a land of plenty. What were people complaining about?" If people had complained a bit more," said. Once inside, where would I hide to watch them? And in such a large house, they might be in any room. It was with all these questions unanswered and a growing fear within me that I set out at 7:15 for my adventures at principal Smith's house. It was 7:40 PM when I arrived. I parked my car about a half a mile down the road and walked the rest of the way. It was 7:50 PM. when I stood just outside the gates. I could see two vehicles parked in the drive way. One appeared to be a Cadillac. It was a. I right to be worried about my reaction, as mum never one to mince herwords snorted I'd have to be careful when I got back to universitybecause I was looking like a girl with my unisex style of dressing andhair like that!"Don't be so parochial mum," I laughed actually pleased that shethought I was looking like a girl."You and your big bloody words." She breathlessly laughed, "So long asyou're happy kid."Mum died a week after I got home for Christmas.Equally not long after my mum passed I was in. The cue rebounded around the table and accidentally knocked the black ball into the pocket. Which meant I lost the game, but I didn’t care.Over the course, of the next ten minutes. Danielle and I continued to chat. We discovered we had much in common with each other. By now my heart was beating fairly fast in the company of Danielle. I discovered she was a year younger than myself. She was currently seventeen years old, only a month shy of her eighteenth. But, before I had the chance and ask.