He’ll go ballistic if I’m dating him. He’ll go ballistic if I’m marrying him. They both cost the same. ‘He told me to have a great time over...there, to meet people and see how I felt when I got back.’ Overstated a mite, perhaps, but emotionally accurate enough. ‘But you had a commitment to him when you went that you never told us about. You lied to us!’ Now the staff in the farthest reaches of the house knew the content of our disagreement. Alright, you want the maximum escalation immediately?. ”I don’t know if Betty and Mark were intentionally being obtuse or if they were really clueless about why I was sitting at their dinner table on a Friday night with their daughter pushing food around on her plate and barely speaking.“So, what is your plan for the next concert?” Mark asked. “Going to lead a march on the capital?”“Uh ... No sir. We don’t have the specifics yet, but we’re told it will be an intimate gathering, more like the one we did at the chapel a few months ago. Small audience. As we lay on the big hotel bed, I thought, this is an opportunity that is too good to waste! Before I go back to my wife I am going to give Sarah a night she would never forget. I stripped two pillow cases off and tied them around your wrists, then stretched you out on the bed and tied you to the bed head, as you were thinking we were maybe going to try some light bondage I suddenly jumped up got dressed and headed for the door! where the hell are you going!! You said looking very puzzled. I am. But, you read that notice, and it really doesn't say a thing. There's not a thing in there that says that the snake is living in the sewer system, that the sewer system is part of their critical interest area, what the ramifications of a critical interest area are, or that they were in such a yank." Sounds like the damn government," Milliman said."Then, this notice we got the other day about the critical interest area, that didn't even say that much, just that one had been declared. Not a word.