Luckily there were only three days left in that first week. Courtney resisted as I had figured she would but she really needed a drink. Stopping drink...ng cold turkey is hard but as far as I am concerned the only way to go.I had removed all of the alcohol from the house in anticipation so when she started begging for some, my answer was no. Then by a coincident an old movie came on television staring Dick Van Dyke. It was called Cold Turkey and every time he wanted a cigarette he made love to. He’d been using the office term.“Sorry. Professional jargon. Perpetrator, the guy who did it. Anyway, do you eat Chinese?” If Claire could take her to lunch, so could he. She was thinking, not rejecting it, but not accepting it yet. He doubted that she would have accepted faster if he’d said Italian. “I gave you the short answer. There is a longer one, and you deserve it.”“Well...” Another long pause. “Thank you.” So he got them to the restaurant. She was out of the car before he came around,. I bathed him. Top of his head to his toes, listening to him groan happily when I did his feet. I did his chest and his back and his armpits, using deliberate pressure on the last to keep from tickling him.Now there’s one last area.“Keep your mind out of the gutter, Buddy. I know that you’re sweaty and gunky there, too.”He closed his eyes. I would like to say that I was absolutely professional in my handling of that particular area. I’d like to say that. I’d be lying just a little bit.Yes, he’s. "What about after?" So, the best part. One of the guys stayed behind to take down the override and heard the Program people talking through the audio monitor, and realized that they hadn't shut off their mikes. The auditorium sound system can be connected into the main school PA system so that school-wide announcements can be made from the stage, so he patched the wireless feed into the school PA system. That's usually done backstage but there's a duplicate sound board up in the control room..