Whatever. You are right. I'm gettingthe dolls for me. How much do I owe you?" I asked as I reached back formy wallet."Didn't you read the sign?" the o...ld man asked and pointed to his right,where a sign was hanging that I could have sworn was not there a momentago.It read: ALL PURCHASES COST EXACTLY WHAT IS IN YOUR LEFT POCKET. EXCEPTFOR YOUR CAR KEYS.I blinked a few times as I read it, and thought to myself how silly thatwas, and no wonder the shop didn't make enough money to get off the. I had taken Fay there as often as we could before we were married, she loved it there as much as I did. We still went often.Carl left at noon Friday and Pam came over to our house with her two children.Fay and Pam had every thing we were taking stacked in the garage when I came home.Mary Clark arrived before I was through loading the car.I said something about picking Pam's husband up at a automotive repair place. Mary heard that and assumed that this was two couples going, not two ladies and. Miss Pattison liked us to sit with one boy and one girl at each double desk for some reason. I asked her about it once after class last year expecting her to say it was something to do with controlling the behaviour in a class or something but instead, she told me that because the different sexes looked at literature from different angles and putting them together gave a more balanced picture. Then she laughed and said that if she could play matchmaker too it was a bonus.I was one of the first. “Okay, David,” I thought to myself. “This isn’t adding up. This thing has to be worth thousands of dollars. I either need to grab this fast or get the hell out of here.”I quickly decided to try at least to load it up. A small voice in my head kept telling me, “What if the story was somehow real?” I didn’t think I would ever forgive myself if I didn’t at least try. So I opened up the tailgate and grabbed a furniture dolly and a 6’ ramp I brought with me. I managed to get the dolly under the bike.