So anyway we get into the shoe store and she tellsthe saleslady that she wanted to see something for me in a pair ofsandals. After I tried on several ...airs of shoes, Mother ended upchoosing a pair of white leather, open-toed sandals for me. I was reallyhappy as they looked ever so much prettier than the sneakers I had beenwearing. Then Mother said to the saleslady, "Now we'd like to seesomething in a more formal style and with a higher heel." I'm thinking,"Higher heel? The sandals she'd just. You check your weight log and note the previous threedays - 189, 184, and 181. You've been trying to diet, but nobody losestwelve pounds in three days. Nobody except fighters and wrestlers on aweight cut for weigh-ins, at least."Yes dear?" said Maya as she enters the room, holding two towels andwith a shirt draped over her shoulder."Look at this," you gesture to the scale as you step on it again. Itcalculates for a few seconds and returns yet another number - 176. "Itjust showed me at 177, and. “I did ask for that, but they forgot,” Claire didn’t want to tell him all the sordid details and triggers she did have in her brain.“Hypnotism isn’t real,” Phil scoffed at the idea and dismissed it anyway.“I thought so as well, but what have you got to lose? I can ask Alex and Hailey to come in here, and we can try it. If it doesn’t work, I’ll do that extra special thing you like in the bedroom. You know what I mean?” Claire winked seductively at her husband.“Breakfast in bed?” Phil was. Sure, Stephanie claimed that she knew a place where she wouldn’t get hit on, but that had to be just talk to get her to say yes.“Oh, what the hell,” Rebecca finally said. “Let’s go.”“Great,” Stephanie said, a touch of the mischievous in her eyes. “And trust me, you’re not going to regret it.”Rebecca had heard that before, but right now, it didn’t seem very important.The place Stephanie knew wasn’t that far away, but in the Friday night traffic, the cab trip took the better part of an hour. From.