‘As you can see, she has done a magnificent job of cleaning up the old rust bucket. And I can tell you, this tub didn’t look like this, six months... ago.’ ‘Can either of you explain to me why Maureen failed to tell me about any of this?’ I asked. ‘Maureen needed some place where she could be the boss,’ Velda explained again. ‘With you, she was not in command. Here, she was. It was just something she had to have.’ ‘I still don’t get it,’ I grumbled. ‘But it’s too late now to worry about it.’. Carol had arranged an assortment of dim sum for the first course. Technically, dim sum isn't an appetizer but a light meal. For a meal in which I suspected that there would be quite a few tastes of delightful female fluids, I say, the hell with formal Chinese meal structuring. Carol was right to caution that hot peppers, much as one might like the taste, were a Really Bad Idea if the tongues or fingers that would touch sensitive places picked up chili oil.With a slight giggle, Carol stopped us. He was ready to go. Alice quickly compared notes about them both being pilots and they were suddenly socializing on a whole new level.Dave got a torrid embrace from two women near his own age named Janet and Sandy. Over the course of the next hour he learned how they came to be affiliated with Mark’s clan. Their husbands, Troy and Dan, had been on a business trip where they met and ended up having sex with Elsa and Cindy while they’d been out prowling after being ‘bad girls’. He was supposed to. “I have to go. I’ll see you later.”“Tonight.”“Later,” I stressed.She stuck her tongue out at me. I just rolled my eyes.I brought a nice lunch over to Martin’s, consisting of bread, cheese, and fruits, in a picnic basket that my aunt had procured. I also put in a purple flower I cut from Beth’s front garden. She’d suggested it. Heather and I sat on the deck behind the market, dangling our feet over the water, as we unpacked the meal.“Thanks for bringing food. I’m starved!” she chirped.I held the.