She offered to pay him fifty dollars to mow it, so he decided that he would try to do an especially good job, given the rate of pay. It was plenty war... out, and by the time he was finished, he'd worked up a pretty good sweat."Can I offer you something cool to drink, Matt?" Yes, thank you. I'll have a cold beer if you have one."Mrs. Myers thought for a moment and then replied, "Can you handle a beer at your age?" A beer is not the only thing I can handle."Mrs. Myers went into her house and. We had six large pizzas delivered and we were all drinking beer. It seems that there is something universal about beer and pizza together. When the pizza ran out we made small talk. Carl reminded us that we still hadn't taken him up on the tour of the Navel Academy. The conversations soon became about the gym. When Carl found out that my dad was going to be moving equipment from the basement to the gym he volunteered to come help. Of course we accepted the offer. I knew that my dad would. My parents and older brother were all working so I had the place to myself. We live in a big house on a dead-end street, so there is only one neighbor whose yard borders my own. Every once in a while, I would hear screams and giggles from over the fence, so I figured my neighbor Julie had a bunch of her cheerleader friends over for a little pool party of their own.Julie and I were best of friends since elementary school. We had, in fact, shared our first sexual experience together the previous. People seemed sadder today. The waiter who’d refilled her glass had asked if she was all right. She sipped and didn’t understand why she wouldn’t be and dismissed the youngster with a wave of her hand. A few minutes later, she recalled that he’d been wearing a black armband, but hadn’t connected it to anything. Once she’d noticed many other people passing her by wearing them, she’d started to wonder.She looked up into the sky. A group of fighter planes flew overhead, followed by two other.