That meant him finding more opportunities to make me show all that I could. We walked the short distance to the mall, Dave ignoring the lift (elevator... and insisting on us using the escalator to the upper floor. Halfway up I looked round to see about eight men stood on the lower stairs and enjoying the sight of my exposed rear.We wandered around the shops, just browsing. Then Dave had the idea that I needed a new pair of shoes. I tried telling him I had enough, but he insisted, and dragged me. " The young Marine cleared his own throat and he said "Colonel what does all of this have to do with me?"The colonel looked at his Private First Class and he said to the young man "as part of our defensives we had several companies of Marines who were at the bottom of the ridge and their job was to serve as a protective speed bump." When the Japanese hit those Marines they hit them hard very hard and now we don't have enough Marines to do that job. Your Job is to serve as a one man protective. ..best...for either of us." I could see the sadness in her eyes."That's an understatement" I replied."Well, I know school has been a struggle, and to be honest life in general has been a struggle for me." She sighed. "I think...well I think that a little family therapy might help us." She looked up at me."Mom, the last thing I want to do is sit and tell some stranger about my personal life" I said"As a ther****t, I find that statement insulting" mom tried to smile. "As a person, I actually. "I gotta pee." No fair!" she said with a playful pout. "I have to go too!"Really? Was this going to come out now, too?Tina had, for as long as I'd known her, used an odd turn of phrase on many occasions: she would say something like, "They were so close they practically peed together." The first few times she said it, I thought nothing of it. But after a while, I kind of made note of it. Also, on several other occasions, she had mentioned how pee was "practically sterile." Curious.This had made.