John quickly hid the 4chan tab and opened up his fantasy football roster page, as his Mother reached the bottom of the stairs. "Hey John, how's the ga...e?" She asked."A blowout, I'm going between games now." John responded."A good blowout or...?" She wondered, as she entered the laundry room."Yes, a good blowout." John stated, slightly louder so she would hear him. He listened to her pull the dry laundry out of the dryer, move the wet laundry into the dryer, and put a fresh load into the washing. I was mildly discouraged that all my thinking while on my vacation had led only to me uncovering more potential problems to be concerned about. My best hope was the time I'd been away had produced a change in the wives attitudes, and a newly acquired desire to attempt to be reasonable.The flight back to Atlanta went well, and my car started right up at the long term airport parking lot. I drove back to Birmingham with no better plan than the one I'd had when I left.In spite of my inability to. I awoke and found myself strapped to a beauty chair smellingchemicals. "About time you woke up beautiful," said Mary."Where am I? What's going on?" I said."Not much, we have a party to go to Saturday and we are one girlshort. So My cousin Violet Marie will come with us. But since shedoesn't exist, we are turning you into a hot girl. You asked why me? We have been watching you for a while and you are so sweet and niceyou will make a perfect girlfriend. Oh about your old friends they'veall been. I'm not sure that'd get past his neck." Unaware of his exposure or Linda's internal conflict, he brought the second box to the bed and set up across from her to start looking through it."Hey, that's mean. You wait until you're forty, see how easy it is to keep that body." You don't seem to have had the same struggle." Was that a compliment? Thank you. But I know I'm a little thicker than I used to be. I used to be a tiny little stick of a thing. Did you know I was a gymnast in high school?.