?Damn strange,? said the bartender. ?Starfleet takes phony distresscalls seriously. If we came all this way because some Vulcan set offa distress be...con in error and then didn?t report it, there?ll be hellto pay. I wouldn?t want to be in his shoes.??Strange, indeed,? I replied, wondering if this whole incident mightbe a set-up by the Romulans to lure us into the Neutral Zone. ?I?llhave a red house wine, please.? Maggie was drinking a dark ale ofsome type. ?And please bring another of what. I was 19 at that time and me and my friends were drinking and that evening after a few drinks one of the friends put up a bet to call up a random number of a girl and start talking to her, I took up the challenge and a husky voiced girl picked up the phone, she spoke out a name of a restaurant and asked me what I wanted. I tried talking to her and gave my introduction, and also told her that please talk to me as I have a bet with my friends and I really want to win it and she started laughing. Her arms now cradled her head as she gazed through the back window.“What?” Frank asked, his voice sounding strange, as if disrupting the background sounds of the road beneath them had annoyed some deity of travelers.‘How can she sit like that for so long without cramping her back muscles or having her legs go to sleep?’ he wondered. As those thoughts occurred to him, he smiled at the thought of massaging any tight muscles in her legs that might need relief.“We’re being followed,” she said. . thank you," I said."Did anyone else give you presents?"I shook my head."What about Ella?" No, not yet."She reached under the bed again and pulled out a heavier box. The box was covered with blue wrapping paper."Another one!" I said, suprised at my own enthusiasm. I tore away the wrapping paper.It was an electric shaver. I wore shorts, so Lily pointed to my legs."Your legs are hairy like a gorilla," she said. "You can use it to cut the hair on your face, too."With my fingers on my face, I felt.