By this time we had introduced ourselves. She opened the door to her flat and guided me to her kitchen and asked me place the bags there. I was sweati...ng as well. She offered my cold drink and asked me to please sit in the living room. She came back with a tray with 2 glasses of soft drink. And sat across me. She were having a general conversation about work, her husband, our native, then I asked her how long she been married and when is the child expected. I advised her not to carry so much. "I smiled as I did not have a reply and sipped my drink. Mrs Mehtaexcused herself. I casually chatted with a few people and managed toavoid Kabir in the humungous Mehta house. I kept thinking about the lastcouple of months. I am a girl and I know when a guy checks me out. Evenwhen I was semi naked in Kabir and Arjun's house in Bangalore, I neverfelt Arjun was checking me out. I never felt uncomfortable wearinganything around him. We always connected as girls. When some hot guypassed by, we. “Thank you.”Amanda drove and Mary rode shotgun, with Jules and I in the back seat.A couple of hours into the journey, I was hungry, so we stopped at the same diner that we’d stopped at on the way up, for some lunch. I magnanimously offered to pay, since Dean had said he had dropped some cash into my account. Just to be sure, though, I opened my online banking to see how much I had available.I was stunned into speechlessness when I saw the message on the screen.Account Balance: $50,556.75“What. You see, when populating a circuit board it's natural to snip off the excess length of leads on the components. Those little bits of wire tend to fly amazing distances. The ends are sharp—like little chisels. One does NOT walk around barefoot near an electronics bench without getting perforated feet. Rugs and carpeting are out of the question, both to limit hiding places for the bits of sharp wire and to eliminate static charges in the winter that blow out those dinky little chips you're trying.