That they did. I drove from club to club. The second place we went, her people spun into the lot as Tina was getting out the door and I had to get a l...ttle fancy to get rid of them. After that she told me to pick the clubs 'cause they knew her favorites.We'd run through all the legit places and had hit a couple of blind pigs -- the all-night unlicensed joints -- when the back-up singers started belting the blues about wanting to pack it in. Tina tried to talk them out of it, but the girls were. "You take a deep breath as Bennett calls out numbers from ten slowly down to one. Then suddenly, a fog-horn type alarm sounds and Joe feels the strangest feeling surging through his body.Then he feels light-headed, and his body drained of energy. He collapses to the floor, and his vision seems to fizz as though his eyes are full of cheap lemonade before it fades to black......When he wakes up, Joe feels different. He can't quite tell what it is at first, but slowly his faculties fire up and he. It was the question they'd all wanted to ask."I'm glad you asked that question. I have a few ideas I'd like tobounce around gentlemen."Hathaway smiled and they all waited for him to continue. PART ONE - CORNEREDPaul Jameson stood in line and waited. He eventually reached themachine and inserted his time card into it. "Finally!" Paul thought ashe pulled the card out and placed it into the tray on the table.Paul was more than a little happy that the weekend had arrived. He'dput in a long week at. I could wiggle toes and fingers and move around but my right arm was bound up and couldn’t move. Something was attached to my legs, cuffs of some kind that were pulsing rhythmically. I found out later it was to make sure I didn’t get blood clots. I had wires and tubes going from me to a contraption that beeped periodically.“He’s awake!” Melissa was near, her voice almost in my ear so I turned to look at her. They were both here, both fine, thank goodness. There was a chair at my bedside but.