”Eve, Elyse, Charlie, and Kimmy all burst out laughing.“Oh shut up!” Deborah said, shaking her head and showing a wry smile.“This meeting went... downhill pretty quickly,” I observed. “Next topic?”“Bob’s proposal is ready for ‘Prime Time’,” Elyse said. “I expect to get some serious pushback from the managers, and some concern from the staff about ‘continuous appraisals’ as we’ll be calling them.”I nodded, “I agree. That said, the memo he and I put together should allay some of that. It’s not. ’ Gail was withering under the force of that stare. ‘I just started today.’ Pat’s face almost made an expression, and it was one that made the other girl nervous. It was almost a sneer. ‘You just HAPPEN to start volunteering here the same week that your buddy Keith tries to dig up dirt on me? Yes,’ she started in response to Gail’s unspoken defense, ‘I see you two together all the time, so don’t try denying it. Christ, I almost bought his ‘I’m sorry’ line too. Now he’s got you spying on me for. "It is the same color red that you find in peppermint sticks at Christmas." Yes, I think it was a custom paint job on the truck. Those seat covers are definitely custom," I said. I was a little surprised how little losing the election bothered me. "I'm going to get in my peppermint colored truck and go to that steak house in the plaza. They have cheese cake there. I'm going to buy a whole one and take it home, then eat the damn thing all by myself. Then I am going to sit on the toilet and. He snapped around and carefully opened the door on his side and slipped inside. He listened to her soft but swift footsteps in the quarters below. He took the steps down into the main cabin area and, although it was dark, he knew his way around without touching a thing. He continued his search down the short hall that led to the four sleeping quarters and saw that one door was left ajar. He was disappointed that it was his brother’s sleeping quarters. Oh well. Desperate times necessitated.