I raced home to get there before them. Early in our relationship we had installed cameras in our bedroom to record the excitement. I knew the cameras ...were there, I had looked at them last week. I put new disks in the recorders set them to run and left before they arrived. I broke a window pain in the kitchen door and left the door unlocked, turning the thumb knob with my hankie in my hand. The door was only open an inch or so.Soon a message arrived on my phone informing me of a security breach. Oats might be able to persuade her son to put together a children program of traditional and contemporary folk music to be presented on an up coming Saturday morning. Josh said that he'd be delighted to give it a go and, though he wasn't sure how his selection of crusty old and moldy over-sung standards and nonsense songs would be received by a group of precocious four, five and six year olds, was surprise as to just how well his performance went over. Two weeks later - another library. . I was really excited. Everything was going well until I had to sign thepapers. Up to now I had let the salesman think I was still a male, but thiswas a legal document so I had reveal I was Melinda Annette Crenshaw. That'swhen the trouble started. He looked at my signature and social securitynumber and ran them through the old computer net to make sure I was good forthe money, or so I thought. He looked at me and said, "I can't sell you a carlike that, miss. As a woman, you're a very valuable. Therewere a few oddities though. For one, it appeared to have been hastily puttogether from parts of different watches and fitness tracker. The bezelwas unusually thick for such a small rectangular case and it's crownseemed to hollow. In fact, it looked a lot more like a short funnel thana watch's crown.As he picked up the thing, the LCD lit up: "Welcome to the world ofendless possibilities. You've been chosen as a test subject for amodified version of the AER gun."Eric couldn't believe his.