But, if we were to pay double your price, would you show us your products...more intimately ? What about it, guys?" His question was met with an enthu...iastic response from the others, apparently a collusion decided upon during our "break." My first reaction was, "Yeah, right." But...My resolution faltered to my current dilemma. This job suddenly had the potential of paying a lot more than my usual 40% commission. But I couldn't answer based solely on financial terms. If my husband found out.... Surely that wasn't going to cost all that much?Well, getting Austin Water Utility to come out wasn't a problem. In fact they had a crew scheduled to be in our incorporated area on Monday and the nice gal at the scheduling office penciled me right in at the bottom of the work list. Easy-Squeazy.Dealing with Austin Energy wasn't quite as easy, but the process was endurable. I had to write a fairly scary $5000 deposit check that could cover approximately six months of 'normal' electrical usage,. "In answer Dale was enveloped in the shimmering blue light and transported back into the truck."Thanks Vyagar! Let me know as soon as you are able to transport me as far as Las Vegas safely." You're welcome Dale."That afternoon Dale thought about the whole phenomena surrounding the Alpha Male thing. He didn't believe that there was any way that sooner or later someone wouldn't cause him some trouble. Here in the U.S. people weren't always very tolerant of deviations from 'normal' behavior even. The children shuffled out, a look of deep disappointment on their faces, neither of them aware of what they had missed. Eight children were left and she glanced at each of them again, gauging their mood and their eagerness to escape the confines of that abysmal place."Do the boys and girls sleep in the same dormitory here?" Jeremy softly asked the matron as Alice finished her inspection."Of course not!" The matron spat, looking at him as if he were an imbecile. "Miss Marchant insisted that they.