The four months in Oklahoma tended to drag by with No Pussy and at last I was back in eastern S.D. In July. I had just returned to my job as worker wi...h a local lumber yard when I happened to burn my thumb on the Guard for a band saw and it blistered which became quite sore to the touch and drained horrible looking pus. Then one morning zi could barely move and felt terrible plus there was a red streak from my thumb up to my arm pit. Mum bundled me into the car and took mevstraightbo hospital. Iguess it was something I was still coming to terms with. I'd onlyfooled around with a couple of guys I'd met at the club so I wasn'ttotally comfortable with the label yet."No, but they pay well. More than girls, what I really like iscash!" We both laughed.The cab got us there I think about a half hour later. While we werestanding out front my dad must've noticed the big rainbow flag that'shung across our front window cause he said, "Huh," in a sort of`well-imagine-that' kind of way.So as. He smiled and kissed me gently. "It's not expensive," he said, "it's going to be a special present, something personal. A special experience."Very late on the night in question we got in his car and he made me wear a blindfold. He was very cheerful and eager to please and kept reassuring me that it was going to be something wonderful for both of us. He set off and within maybe one turn I lost all sense of direction or distance. There was something sort of exciting about this. Now and then. It took everyone about three seconds to guess it was Danny who’d bought it (he admitted to me later that he’d fixed the draw so he would get my name.) Between admiring my gift, the girls were nudging me in the ribs, winking at me and hissing that Danny was planning to get me drunk at the meal and give me one. By the time we left the office I was blushing scarlet, and I couldn’t look at the poor boy without a fresh wave of embarrassment. I just thought what a nice man he was, and made a mental.