Our husband has said that we will all go through the course, and he is expecting good scores from everyone.”“What? Mom, crap. That’s not fair......��“Jeff didn’t leave me any wiggle room. You’re the best of us wives with a handgun or pulse rifle, and you darn well know it, so you’re the logical one to get her through this. All our husband’s women will pass the course, and that includes his future women. You have until sometime in the fall to get her qualified. I suggest that you have a talk with. Even though I’d grown a couple of inches since the previous June, I was the smallest boy in the entire school and only one of the girls was smaller. To compensate for my lack of size, nature had also seen to it that I was bog slow and weak. I think the only reason I didn’t get mercilessly harassed is that I kept my head down and just didn’t challenge anyone. Even with those precautions, I still got picked on plenty.When I mentioned the problem to my father he suggested that I start making use. The next day James called and asked me to come down to the office and see him about the new laptop, I told him I would be right down. When I got there James started laying out the problems he had come across getting the chipset development on track, there was a Canadian company in Edmonton that was leading the research on advanced chipsets but the were in financial difficulty and would probably drop out of the race soon and maybe close up shop as they did not have the space in there present. I'm very serious."Jennifer was quiet for a moment then said, "What the hell. I guess I can go topless if other women on the beach are topless."I asked one of the bell hops at the hotel for directions and we rented scooters and drove over to a remote part of the island. There was a dirt parking lot there with about eight scooters, three cars and a small bus parked in it. We parked our scooters and nervously walked down to the beach.I don't want to say it was a major disappointment but it was.