"Seems kind of a waste of time, coffee, and maybe even my sweater. But what the heck, I'll do it!" She unbuttoned her cardigan and then crawled on the...floor to mop up the spilled coffee. "You know, no one has ever asked me do anything like this. It seems kind of pointless. Who would get pleasure out of asking something like this?"Jake said, "I don't know." He thought for a minute. Pleasure, he wondered. "So you'd feel better about saying 'yes' to people if you knew they'd get pleasure out of. Each man carried a carton of cigarettes as a gift for Ed.Nathan came out the front of the house to stand beside Ed. He watched as each man handed Ed a carton of cigarettes; introduced themselves along with the tribe to which they were a member to Ed; and then stood off to the side. The men represented tribes from all over the western portion of the country.When Ed had too many cartons of cigarettes to carry, he handed them to Nathan and said, “Take them in the house and then go next door. Tell. They had their own kids and they got preferential treatment while I was more in the way than anything. Anyway, I thought that was in the past when I met Henry. But he turned out just as bad as the rest. So when you came along and was really, honestly, thoughtful of my needs and my wants… well, it meant more than you could have known."But then you left and I was once again thrown into the same dark basement kind of world. And I didn’t see any way out of it. Even once Henry and I got divorced, I. As the IT dept and I worked on getting it into my system I kept having problems. Both of us were frustrated and I finally told them I would get someone to do the download and they could explain what I was ignorant on.As it worked out there was a problem with the disc they sent me and I needed another one. I was scheduled to attend a meeting in one of the branches and I would get the new one there. I asked MJ, my neighbor (read more about her in another story) to come over and do the download.