She kissed him goodbye, stood at the door until he got in his car, then waved as he backed out of the driveway. Closing the door, Mom turned and walke... back toward the kitchen, already unbuttoning her blouse as she came. "What's up mister? Why are you so antsy?" she smiled as she entered the kitchen, the buttons already undone almost to the waist of her skirt. Mom was pulling the blouse up, untucking it from the skirt but stopped, peering at my face. "What? What is it?" You won't believe it,. The Earth weighs 6e24 kg. The net result is I can exert a force on the entire planet a factor of sixty times greater than the sun. Push it right into the sun, if I wanted to destroy it. Or away from the sun, if I wanted to destroy the planet more slowly. In two months, I could have the Earth at the orbit of Pluto.And my power output, 2.2e26 Watts, 2.44 mega-tons per second! It would take me just ten minutes to reduce the CO2 in Earth's atmosphere by one ppm. Or I could spend a day and remove. Then the noise of Dad falling on the floor shook me up. Mary Kate and I sneaked down the stairs to see what happened.”“I see. So, was he hurt my son, your father?”“Well ... er ... ah...”“Go on.”“Um ... they were both um ... naked Father. It was embarrassing. Dad was lying on the floor. We thought he hurt his um ... THING because Mom was on her knees rubbing it ... and it was getting ... um, all swelled up, I mean really big Father ... a huge boner.”“Oh, my Lord,” the priest exclaimed, followed. Everything I did, I did for her. Twenty odd years, Nicky, down the pan.” I lapsed into silence.“So, what happened when you got there?” she asked after a while.So I replayed the whole story – the hostile reaction of Judith Connor, her accusation of my brutality to Sally, her account of Sally’s new relationship and Judith’s urging me to leave her alone. Then my trying to get her to promise to tell Sally I’d been there.Finally I recounted my journey back to the hotel, seeing Sally with the new man.