" Let me get the saws, oil, and gas. You'll have to wait a little to do what you want, though. Mervin the satellite guy is coming around eight. When h...e gets done we'll go cut up that tree. I have to warn you I'm not experienced with chain saws, but I'll try."Mervin showed just after eight and spent about ten minutes testing the satellite dish, and then thirty putting a new access card in a new cable box under the TV, and programming it. It only took about an hour to run new cables from the dish. This was going to be a dull journey unless I thought of something to amuse myself. It was early afternoon - a fairly busy time, but not so packed that I was lost among the rush-hour crowd - there were, I suppose, about thirty other people there, waiting. Their eyes wandered aimlessly, in search of some distraction from this claustrophobic environment. Maybe I could help! I switched into automation - the next thing I knew, I’d ‘accidentally’ dropped my travel pass - how clumsy of me. I turned so. ‘We’re sorry for all that Mr. Lewellen. We should have anticipated a little better and either warned you how to answer those questions or warned them to ask more basic and general questions.’ A lottery lady offered. She continued, ‘Where would you like this money deposited? How would you like it?’ Well, I didn’t have a bank account, I’d been kicked out of most of their lobbies when they were giving away free Christmas cookies and punch, so I didn’t know what to do or where to go. ‘Can you just. Using my past activities with Gail as a guide I could conceivably use the Starlight three times a week (figuring her parents being gone every weekend) and at $58.76 a visit the Starlight would cost me a minimum of $176.28 a week or $705.12 a month. Throw in an occasional weekend day, say two a month, and I was looking at $822.64 a month and I could get an apartment for $700 a month. But what if Gail wasn't around for some reason or other? Like maybe she would decide to move back east to be.
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