Iwas reading my panties' label when the doors slid open with a startlingKRRR-THUD and I accidentally tugged it upwards. A good five inches ofpantie li...ted out of my shorts. People were boarding the carriage fromboth the front and back. I tugged the right side of my shirt down as atall man sat to my left. 'Your panties are lopsided on your bum!' Twochatty guys with designer stubble sat on the seats diagonally oppositeme, facing the direction the train travelled. 'Fix them now, beforeeveryone. .. thinking about the future.”“My dad says we’re going to get a colour TV one of these days,” she announced.“I bet it won’t be long before everyone has a colour TV,” Jesse offered. “After all, once you’ve seen one, why would you settle for black and white? I also heard someone is going to get a cable network going in Vancouver. That will eliminate roof aerials. Then they can go to work on making TV clearer ... you know ... like the movies.”“Do you think about this stuff a lot?” she asked.Jesse. As I had in my previous four interviews, I wore a plain black business blouse and skirt combo that was both a little provocative, and a little conservative. It was perfect because it made me look both smart and sexy at the same time. I rounded the ensemble out with my sexiest black high heels. I was carrying a small black attaché case that had a portfolio full of different posed pictures of myself, along with a few different bathing suits if they had decided to have me change.When I opened the. By then I was getting pretty worried; I damn well don’t want him dying on me right in the middle of my living room. But there didn’t seem to be much I could do if that was what he had in mind, so I just shoved it out of my head.And went and made some soup. Chicken soup.OK, not exactly “made”; I opened up a can, poured it out, added water like the directions said and stuck it in the microwave. I’d lost power along with the phone, of course, but the generator out back was chugging away nicely and.