.."Well I need it fifty bucks worth not a hundred," i said while finding two twenty dollar bills and one ten dollar bill in the wad of cash I kept in ...he front pocket of my jeans. The wad was held together by a strip of rubber from a bicycle inner tube. It was like a super wide rubber band."I knew someone strange would be the one to buy it," He said it looking at the inner tube money clip thingie. and holding out his hand.Getting it home in one piece was a challenge. It rode on the bike seat,. You got a deal if I bring the beer and the whiskey.’ ‘Sold.’ ‘Excuse me gentlemen, but as the only female member of this gathering, I’d like to add my two cents.’ She paused and we chuckled with her. Dot was a wonderful warm and very human woman. ‘I’ll be responsible for the mojito’s if you can find me a source of mint.’ ‘My back yard has a 2 by 5 foot patch of fresh mint. Good thing that I’ll be able to crawl home.’ We talked for the next hour. At one point, I made a comment about Marie. After drawing our APCs the drivers and commanders were sent to try them out on the prairie, a completely different environment from Salisbury Plain. The terrain was relatively undulating, with sudden dry 'draws', old dried up river beds that had been gouged out of the land by glaciers at the end of the Ice Age. These had steep sloped, and often badly eroded, sides, and were a bugger to cross without a bit of practice and a certain expertise. There were also areas of rocky out-crops mixed with. She was about my age and a fair looking girl, clean and neat despite her job. I was feeling needy, fired up."Miss Jones'll take care a'you," she said with a smile. "First room at the top of the stairs." She grinned widely. "Three shillings usually, depending." Don't care for whores," I said, telling an awful lie."She's a good one, they say." No thanks," I said, downing my beer. "Thanks for the sewing." I stacked five shillings on the counter and pushed the small pile toward her.She pushed it.