Margarethe pulled the laminated pages of the storm preparation checklist from its place beneath the binnacle, and read it over for the fiftieth time. ...rew readiness: sleep, clean body, clean clothes, plenty of food, no sickness, good morale, foul weather gear, emergency lights and torches. Then securing the ship: lifelines and handholds, emergency lighting and power, communication internal and external, first aid supplies, abandon ship articles, removals from top hamper and topside, securing. Dana had the reins wrapped around the brake and was off the seat by the time the wagon stopped. She ran up to Bob, anxious about her man. She watched with a critical eye as the woman bandaged his wound.When the woman was done, Dana kissed Bob fiercely. Then she stepped back and slugged his good arm as hard as she could. For the next ten minutes she lit into him about being safe and not taking chances. He knew he had it coming, and he took it in good stead. The women from the house stood back. I knew there were other girls there because I could hear them screaming and laughing and at times come across them having sex with men old enough to be their grandfathers. It was just the physical action of sex, which all we girls were doing regularly with others that was required, so this was in some way considered a big game where you were let loose to have hide-and-seek with sex with the man who found you, so for most of us, it was nothing more than a game.We all knew about the others and I. Invariably this brought a number of married women into play and play I did and kept learning on how to please a woman. Eventually I met "Miss Right" and after about a year we got married. I was posted abroad and my wife had to stay behind in the U.K. until I managed to arrange accommodation for her. I'm afraid I gave in to temptation a number of times in the six months that we were apart. When she joined me it was to share a one bedroomed flat in a small German town. The ex-pat community all.