"I said, "You don't owe any of us, Uncle Dar. Friends help each other, a wise man told me once. Cost don't matter, he said. All that matters is that y...ou help a friend the best you can when the friend needs you. You're a friend so you don't owe us anything. Besides, the Veterans Hospital pays us quite a bit for taking care of you." Sally," Uncle Dar said, "What the Vets hospital pays for is basic care. They don't pay for someone to take me to the mall with their friends. They don't pay for. Oldham and he said Wanda deserved a promotion because she was a valuable employee with unique capabilities."Is that another way of saying she gives good blowjobs?" Gladys asked, making me turn around and pull her into my lap."Not at all," I laughed. Actually, I had not been truthful to Wanda. What Mr. Oldham had told me was that Edith Rowell had twisted his arm, so to speak. Edith wanted her daughter to become financially independent and move out of the house because Edith thought the man she. " You said you were going to see her. Did you get my skates?" There were ... um ... complications. Your mother isn't the easiest person to get along with." I TOLD you that," she moaned. "Didn't I tell you she was a buttface?" You did," I admitted. "You just didn't tell me she was an intelligent buttface." So you saw her." I did. She is of the opinion that since she paid for the skates, that makes them hers. Apparently she thinks she loaned them to you for a few years, or something like that.". "Things went on as normal for the next few weeks. I was trying to be a little more attentive to Joyce after hearing what Rodney said. I thought it was odd that my secretary had a higher opinion of me than my wife did. For the first time, in my married life I was seeing some reason to consider a divorce. I have always been very complacent about my marriage. The more attention I paid to Joyce, the nicer she was to me. I liked that arrangement.On Friday afternoons, I usually tried to sneak out of.