I'm not prone to suspecting conspiracies behind every shadow but being of a personally rather dishonest bent myself, I do try and be a realist.It's al...ost like a parlour game. I try to get the measure of every opponent, putting myself directly into his shoes and calculating in what manner I could screw 'me' over the most, if I were him! Then I can do unto him, before he can get the chance to do unto me! That's also a cardinal rule of most successful battles – get there first and with the. I’m not even sure why I did it. He’s almost 10 years younger than me. Plus he’s so full of himself, really not my type. He hasn’t stop flirting with me ever since he heard I was back on the market, as he put it. It’s not like I did anything to encourage him. It wasn’t my decision to move the copier outside his office. I love how he always comes over and drops his pen on the floor. It used to make me uncomfortable, but now I just play along. At first, he would drop it and pick it right back up.. "There's something else you should know about Tess and me. We're half Cherokee Indian. Mom is a full blooded Indian. That bothers some people. If it bothers you, just let us know and we'll find someone else you can stay with." Why in the world would that bother me," Lettie asked incredulously."It does some folks," I said. "It's just like in the south, if you're 1/16th Negro then you're a Negro. Most people in our country consider Indians to be less than Negroes." Well, I'm not one of them,. I'd seen their husbands looking at her, and I'd felt proud in the past. Now I was definitely feeling worried.Stella asked me if I was feeling all right and I said I was fine, just a little tired. She gave me a cuddle and kiss and then suggested an early night wouldn't do me any harm. Well, that night was the first time in twenty-eight years that the little fella wouldn't stand up and play ball. Look, I'm usually good for two or three times on the trot even at my age; only the balls do tend to.