The tee was covering my back pocket where the poultry shears were.Their handle is a loop like a knuckleduster. It would protect myknuckles when punchi...ng. A sharp steel claw was an improvement too.Behind the backyard some thirty or so feet away there was a streamthree to five feet wide. Its banks were muddy so no way someone willtry to jump it over. I followed the stream and it was covered withsome bush and there I found kind of a path and a footbridge over thestream. On the other side some. I never found out what she had been doing while I sat in the living room with Jack, the man of the house.At least I did not have to do any talking. For fifteen minutes I listened to Jack boast about how well he was doing in the house painting business. When I made the mistake of asking him if he knew Jimmy Crews, Jack exploded in a tirade of profanity. He charged Jimmy with giving low-ball prices, then not fulfilling his commitments. By the time Lacy showed herself I was feeling put off,. Since I couldn’t put any weight on the left leg, I had to lean on it with every step. Each step was no more than a few inches. It was push the walker then swing my fat ass up to it. Image doing that all the way around the block, with a belly full of Oxy. Everyday was a battle. The question was who was going to win, me or the pain. Sure sometimes I won, and some times I laid in bed feeling sorry for myself.Mayday was the turning point. I was able to walk use the miserable walker to get into the. "I was just experimenting," she said, shrugging dismissively."Experimenting! You had mesmerized half the boys in your class intochanging clothes with half the girls in your class!" It was a simple investigation on the reversal of gender roles," Bunniesaid with a sigh. "Something clearly relevant to our currentsituation." Uh huh," Steele said. "Then why did you have the other half of theclass naked?" Well, I needed a control group, didn't I?" she said, raising her handsin the air as if to.