Weekends were an especially busy time for the company and it was not uncommon for Tracy to ask me to work late on a number of occasions until the line...s closed, and we could have a quick clear up in the order room ready for the morning. One Friday night the girls had all gone home and the telephone lines were all shut down, and Tracy asked me to help her move some catalogues into the Managing Directors office that had just arrived from the printers. I was just stacking the catalogues neatly when. ”“Yes, shopping makes me hungry,” Rico laughed.“How about some good bar-b-que, you boys like bar-b-que?”“We love it, we like ours really hot too, Papa Murphy,” Rico told me.Since it was already 2:00, we had missed the noon crowd. We stopped at Corky’s bar-b-que place on Poplar, one of the top three in Memphis.We were seated in a booth next to the window, me on one side, the boys on the other.“We need to pee, Papa Murphy,” Rico said as the young waitress walked up.“The restrooms are right over. ..”“I knew that before I thought about marryin’ ‘im,” I said.“I know. We talked. And both of us are entirely too young.”“You got that right,” I blurted.“But it doesn’t seem to stop any of our classmates.”“Yeah, but I just can’t believe a middle school girl tells her boyfriend ‘let’s make a baby’.”“No, it’s more like ‘I heard I can’t get pregnant if I’m on top’...”“Or ‘I’ll pull out. I promise’...” Deena giggled.“I can just see me tryin’ to get Bill to pull out, right at that moment...”Giggle.. To hit one of them, I would have to turn my vulnerable back to the other. While I was deciding which ogre to hit first, a tremendous red glow lit the cavern. At first I didn't realize that it was the ogre on my right, enveloped in a "Hellfire" spell. The ogre, of course, knew right away. He spun away from me, searching for his attacker. After moving only a step or two, he was completely consumed by flames. The remaining ogre howled his rage at us, but it was short-lived. My trusty "Whirlwind".
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