Suddenly I lurched sideways, leaning over, and retched into a small blackening shrub at my feet. I felt a hand rest on my back, but wiped my mouth cau...iously before turning to see Theron looking at me in concern. He wrapped his arm around my shoulder and lead me back to the small camp where he and Tomas had obviously slept, assisting me as I slid to the ground, settling beside me with his arm still around me."Are you alright?" I think so. Everything but my pride, at any rate. And my formerly. I told her of my last three days of greeting the ‘Irish Mob’ that was my family. That earned a happy giggle. Then I got down to the real reason for my call. “Linda, I think I would like to get to know you better, would you like to go on a date with me. We could go to dinner and a movie, or maybe a play or a concert.”I got a different giggle this time. “Yes, I think I would like that. But I know you haven’t found a job yet, so you don’t have to spend a whole lot of money on me.”I was leery of. I changed clothes thinking I would go down to the buffet for dinner and go to the pool or hot tub afterwards. Just as I sat down at my table two of my co-workers showed up and sat down too. for about ten minutes as they scrambled to make up a story why they were there to a third co-worker showed up and another few minutes a fourth, the one that gave me the tickets and sent me there. We ate our dinner and had several drinks while I listen to them try to keep a made up story going although I had. And I went right down. My numb feet not even feeling "The Thing on The Floor" I tripped over. No indication until my knees crunched down on it.I really felt it when I went head first into the upright stack of yard tools. All those lovely rakes, shovels, and such I had collected over the years. Of course, they came careening down on me. Note to self: never store a shovel blade up again, no matter how much I want to protect my grandfather's legacy from rust. It found my kidney, I think. At least.