So our day continued she did her work and I ventured around the town. I came back to the apartment a little drunk but not too drunk. I sat down on the...couch and fell asleep. Lakshmi noticed that I had come in and she found me in the couch sleeping and placed a sheet over me and took off my shoes. During my sleep Lakshmi heard me calling out her name. Lakshmi was surprised but then continued on with her cooking. A day later I gave Lakshmi a hundred dollar gift card. Once again she hugged me,. Now the wholeshop thinks I'm a ruddy tranny! I'll never live this down." Don't be silly!" Elaine replied. "I doubt if anyone heard at all. Andeven if they did, so what? It's none of their business." That's all very well," I said. "But what if word of this gets out atwork? I'll be a complete laughing stock." Of course you wouldn't! You're doing this for your dad, remember. Now,let's find some dresses for you to try."Once Elaine had picked out half a dozen dresses of various colours, shemarched. "I only went to Mexico and Venezuela on this trip. It was the funniest thing I have ever seen. My first stop was Mexico City. I had a couple of names and telephone numbers of companies that had bought from us in the past on our usual export terms. I called the first name on the list."The "customary terms" had been cash in advance, with buyer taking delivery at the Murphy shipping dock. Any special export arrangements were the buyer's problem. The only thing Murphy did was provide. Right now isn’t the time to fall in love with the whore, not the time to remember that I can’t imagine living without her. Across the alley I see him standing there, dressed in a pair of ass stomping military style boots, black jeans and a shirt baring the image of some popular Japanese cartoon. He has red hair, not natural Irish red, but dyed fire engine red hair that might have looked ridiculous on a normal man. Nothing looks stupid on a man of six and half feet who weighs nearly three.