"My mother raises an eyebrow as she scans my attire, but she doesn't havetime to ponder upon it. As soon as my father comes into view, Cybillpulls him...into her bearlike embrace."Do you think you would benefit from a feminine touch, Gerald?" she askshim."I beg your pardon?" he replies, hot faced.Ignoring him, she turns to my mother."I'm sure you would benefit from a little feminine touch in your husband,wouldn't you, Helen?" she says, "Have him do a little women's work aroundthe house, right?". "What's all that?" Mandy asked, pointing at the stack."Math." Math? All of it?" There's no more," Ashley said, shrugging. "There's only the one book." You finished all the math problems in the book?" said Mandy, nearly shouting. This was too unbelievable."Sure."Something was definitely wrong. Mandy knew Ashley could only correctly add two plus three half the time. How could she finish her whole math book in an hour?"Can I see?" Mandy said."Sure. Do you need help with your math?" No thanks."The. It was one of the locals who had taken me out for a spin in his car and bought me a few drinks in a quaint old country pub in a place with the silliest name you had ever heard. Widecombe-in-the-moor indeed, should have been called Widecombe-in-the-dullest-shithole in the world. After a couple of drinks clearly the lad thought that this was his invitation to get inside my knickers, which he was sadly mistaken. On reflection, perhaps I should have let him take me home before I jumped out of the. He didn’t bring up the topic again.*****“Hi, are you busy?” a whatsapp message from Reena.“No, not at all.” Kumar replied.“I have a wedding to attend, was thinking if you can take some nice pictures.”“Sure, I would like to.”“There is one problem though. It’s tomorrow morning and I think you will be at work.” she replied.“Tomorrow? that is perfect because tomorrow I have been asked to do the night shift. I would be at home all day”, Kumar lied.“Nice, I will message you tomorrow.”Kumar found it.