I got down out of the car and I saw her looking at me. It was about 10 seconds into the stare and I didn’t what to do, so I just asked her if she kn...ws someone who is available to do chores at my house. She asked me what all is required and I told her the normal stuff – dish washing and cleaning the house. She said she is looking for a better job than cleaning the society and is available to work at my house. I asked her to come to my house and see what all she would have to clean.She had a. .. Wonder which two?" They looked at each other and chuckled. "But, at least we could return the pillows." Yeah. Guess we'd be okay."After the mall, to the supermarket for juice, English muffins, jam and butter. A stop at a liquor store for beer. At home, they fixed up a shelf as a mini-kitchen. By suppertime, they had heard nothing from the men, so they went to the Union alone. Their four men were at a table in a corner, talking and laughing. The two women sat out of sight, not hiding, simply. The new boyfriend lasted one day in the rented accommodation going back to his wife the "Bastard" This led to me spending considerable amount of time on the telephone or at work listening to the tears and regrets and of course the heartache of losing her new man friend. Over the next few months we would spend time together with me cooking meals and generally having long sessions of listening to all her problems. This was usually done with some rather good wine which we both enjoyed.One Saturday. Her name was Helen, and I didn’t get to know her until we started serving on the committee together. Helen was friendly and outgoing, and I think she had more of a social life than I did. Looks aren’t everything, you have to aggressively approach life if you want to succeed. I was aggressive at work, but meek at other times. Most of the committee’s arguments were over publicity for the party. Some of them wanted a really detailed dress code published, and the rest of us argued that a few of us.