Please, Jim, may I have your daughter’s hand in marriage?”Jim and Belinda had guessed this was coming. Jim smiled at him.“Yes, Terry.Grace leapt... flung her arms round Terry and kissed him, hard. Next she ran to her father and hugged and kissed him ecstatically. Belinda was attacked equally enthusiastically and for rather longer as Grace cooled down and just hung on to the mother who was also her spiritual confessor.Jim stood up.“Terry, those two are going to get into emotional upheavals not to. I was stuck indoors like so many of us during 2020, but in current rules applied at the time, we're all allowed a little exercise. Well it was really late, around Midnight time and I just decided to have a walk up to the beach and promenade. Rather than my usual type of route, I went a bit further along, so I could duck under one of the piers. In doing so, I discovered 3 people, a couple plus one other girl sat on the prom drinking some takeaway lagers and ciders. I'd just planned to politely. He knew it was a long shot but he had to try, she could do with the maturity anyway, the dumb bitch. Samuel’s girlfriend Ash had been with him for three years, and in that time, she had never qualified for a higher statement than ‘immature’. She was bossy, thought she was smart, sassy, and sometimes just plain stupid. She would bounce around on sugar like a pre-teen girl and was overly loud and never watched what she said. She also had a rather annoying habit of telling their personal secrets. Unfortunately for the crab it was off when he appeared before the presence and his welcome was anything but warm."It's been several hundred years since I had a crab BBQ. You have 30 seconds to dissuade me from grilling you!!"The crab was equal to the challenge though. "I know how to reintroduce suffering into their lives", he quickly said, "and what's more they'll thank you for it!"The Boss was intrigued. He indeed knew that his grey monotonous hell was essentially self defeating but had been.