Although it was still early, I decided to knock off and go straight home instead of to the solicitor. I phoned him and cancelled. I rolled up at home ...nd saw Dave’s car outside. I had completely forgotten that I should have been fetching my wife from the garage. That was what she had said when I left the office. She must have borrowed Dave’s car. On top of what I had got on I would now have to go back to the office with his car. I opened our front door and looked for her. There was no sign of. The latest celebrity news, or this season’s fashions. Whatever grabs their attention, you know that you’ll be here for a while. And that’s fine, you think to yourself, settling down in your seat. That’s just the way your wife is.The air in the car is warm; the air-con set just right. Rain patters against the windshield, like tiny fists trying and failing to attract your attention. The radio is turned low, the DJ playing an old, familiar tune, and you absentmindedly hum along. You feel. It took nearly 10 minutes to complete the total annihilation of the ship, but there was eventually nothing left but a large debris field.Meanwhile, the fighters had been relentlessly pouring laser fire at the Earth ships. This fire had done no harm to the Earth ships because of the efficiency of the shield. The fire had been returned by the Gatling Guns, eight per ship, mounted on the 12 ships. This Gatling Gun fire consisted of solid slugs of depleted uranium fired under control of the FTL. ''I wanted to surprise you.''You surprised me all right. You cannot just show up at my house as you please.' I was ecstatic to see him, but I was also cross, when he was just following his childish head like that.When he disobeyed my orders or did something without my approval, three things happened:1. It made me angry and a bit panicky, because knowing my soon to be ex husband, it was just flat out risky. After all, we are talking about a man, who made it his life objective to make mine.