I wondered how many times had Steve watched Carol. How many times had he seen me play with her while she slept. And how many times had he seen me watc...ing her through the window. Then I came up with a plan. Since we had Steve do odd jobs for us, I hired Steve to do some yard work and asked him to take the dogs out after school while Carol was at work and left him with a key to the back door. I then announced to Carol that I had to go out of town on business for several days and that while I was. I had absolutely no control of the machine as it had gone into its "dead man" mode which was designed to land it on the ground without killing any of the passengers. Normally, that would be fine, but I still had a man out to kill me!He began to fly in circles around me much as the Comanches back on Earth were prone to do as they looked for a weak place to attack. Well, I now had plenty of time to devote to fighting off this attacker, and this seemed like a good place to use my rifle since. She would believe that she was in control.The next day, Jim was working out – doing some squats at the gravitron machine – when Lisa approached him.“Hi Jim,” she said, smiling but a little nervous.“Hi, Lisa,” Jim had grunted as he completed the seventh of this set of ten reps.Lisa watched him as he finished and toweled off a bit before moving to the next machine.“You’ve been working pretty hard, Jim, and it really shows,” she said.“Thanks, Lisa. I really kind of let myself go in my forties and. This was not lost on Mark, whose pants also tented noticably!All their mutually idle thoughts were dashed when, with the most incredible timing possible, Regina rumbled down the steps, waiting for Mark to make what she thought was an obligatory comment about how beautiful she looked tonight!Finally, Regina went into an obvious pose and, almost visibly annoyed, asked, "Well?"Mark, thinking quickly, whispered into Regina's ear, "If you want to know what I think about how you look, all you need to.