Mom solved that quickly with a fast trip with Shelly to the new Bon Marche. There was no discussion and no debate. Shelly would have a new dress and t...at was final. Shelly had learned not to argue with my mother.As I heard from them later, the two walked out of the department store giggling like a pair of schoolgirls. Bags loaded with two new dresses, two blouses, several pairs of nylons, undergarments, and two pair of shoes. Shelly was going to look like a modern young woman if mother had. The next morning they were up early. Duane packed a huge breakfast away like he was using a shovel, but the hiking burned a lot of calories, and he had to feed the furnace. It was still early, so they drove back to Harper's Ferry and spent a little time walking around "below the hill" in the old part of town. Just for the sake of doing it, the three of them walked back up the trail for a moment, across the bridge over the Potomac River into Maryland, and then came back. Duane suggested his dad. " If I were forty years younger I'd show you how to treat a lady,"Bernard piped in."Then show me," Walter replied unwavering.Bernard no longer felt the stiffness from his arthritis. A jolt ofenergy jumped into him as he got up immediately; his knee no longer gavehim trouble when he put weight on it. He lost focus of what heoriginally planned and started shaking his leg. There was no pain.Lyndon felt a pain in his crotch that was gone as soon as it came. Shetook a step forward to sock Walter. That is why women have them she said, for men to enjoy them. She said she would never wear such things in front of my wife, her daughter, as my wife would not approve. I agreed. The hostility between my wife and MIL was extraordinary. One morning she came out in her panties when she thought I was the only one home. My wife had yet to leave and caught her in the kitchen before I saw her and world war three ensued. For awhile things settled down but not for long.On some occasions during our.