I said how I’d do anything other than beg and she said how she was fairly open minded. My mate announced how she’d make up the rules as long as it...was foot related and no begging. After a few minutes of thinking she stared at me giggling with a devilish smile.I remember her saying to me; “I want you to properly learn your lesson. Tomorrow I will do my 9 hour shift in my older work boots. When I get home, I’ll have you laying on the floor, head at the bottom of the sofa and for 15 minutes, you. Most businesses had stayed closed because of flooding, the school was still open but most of the kids wished it was closed, the local river was overflowing, the pumps at the chemical factory were coping with the flood waters, that was the official statement released by the management of the factory but many local people suspected the pumps were not coping and when the alert sirens at the factory started to sound locals knew the pumps were not coping. A hour after the sirens had started to wail. She said, "You were right. Earl didn't know and isn't happy."The fourth was from Bruce. He tried to cover over the room cancellation as a "little misunderstanding." He said that they looked forward to seeing her Monday. She saved it, too.The fifth was from Joan saying that her room had been canceled also. She was getting a room under her card and would still see us for supper. She saved it, too.The last was from her lawyer, Paul. Talk's lawyer had called him trying to smooth things over. Paul. There was no denying that young girls wanted to express themselves sexually; it was obvious that either they would do so for the benefit of unscrupulous and possibly dangerous individuals who cared primarily about how many dollars they could wring from these nubile young bodies, or else American fathers would step up to preserve the precious resource of their daughters' sexuality and keep it in the families, towns, and the country that had invested so much in making American girls the amazing.