I was about to surrender to the thought that she must have decided to work overtime because of my neglect of her these past few days when I heard the ...door open. I watched in anticipation as I saw her come in with weariness evident in her movements as she sluggishly came in. She looked surprised when her eyes found me sitting on the sofa. ‘Oh, hi darling!’ she remarked and tried to look perky as she came over and kissed me gently on the lips. ‘You’re late,’ I remarked casually. ‘I’m supposed to. We had paid for five cases ofoil and three cases of coolant. I had watched carefully and saw thedelivery. Phil had signed the slip. I remembered the cheap little gamesmy father had played and knew what was going on. Feeling sick I workedmy way through the papers, passed them on the Sue and then tried toconcentrate on work.I looked up when a rattling noise filled the room and I watched as someof the mechanics rushed to get the outdoor cars covered as sleet camedown. While they pulled tarps over. . small and hilarious!" "Your gentleman friend needs to keep his opinion to himself," a man at the table next to them said. He was an Asian man, maybe older than Christine. Hard to tell. Christine apologized. Her husband ignored him but he was quiet for the rest of the dinner. Christine's husband didn't want to go home, he wanted a night cap. They went to a bar in China Town where he ogled more women and had a few more drinks. Christine endured the embarrassment as he flirted with several. I went to the bartender and said the magical word Let me in, I'm a friend of Doug (that’s an older story and to long to tell you now, but that gives me entrance to to the secret bar behind, or actually its a bar, a room with poker tables and a small stage, wit an even smaller cinema, for 8 persons, and showing X-rated movies 24/7)Well I entered the second bar with my wife, paid out another champagne and then took her by the hand and led her in to the cinema, and she just laugh. She said poor.