"Unofficially, you've been doing the work and doing it rather well. We're now recognizing it. You are also now a salary grade 10, which means you auto...atically get another week of paid time off every year. Next year, when you reach your fifteenth year working here, that will increase to six weeks total."I was too astonished to respond. I knew that I was the unofficial leader of my group, but leading the group was easy because everybody knew their job and did what they said they would do."I'm. That graduated to sharing a table, then meeting for lunch and finally, after a couple of months, a real date.It's not that Phil was shy, he would do anything I asked. It's just that he never took the initiative. I had to ask him for anything I wanted. But to his credit, if I asked, he immediately did it for me. He never complained or reneged.I just assumed that he would soon know my likes and dislikes and I wouldn't need to ask. I was a selfish bitch. I wanted it my way and only my way.It took. I was twenty-eight. I found out about a week later she had told me a little white lie that first night. She was really nineteen. She was 5'6" and a little on the hefty side, just the way I had come to like them. She weighed about 200 pounds and, like most bigger girls, had a great set of tits.Of all the nights to meet a new friend, that Friday was the worst. I was unable to see her again as soon as I would have liked. I was leaving very early the next morning for a business/vacation trip to Los. I was hoping for the cops myself as I eased out of my desk chair and walked to the door.Damn, it was the trailer trash. I don't want to brag, but I am one of the few natives of the county that actually went to college and got a degree. Unfortunately, I think stupidity is a naturally occuring substance in the soil around here, because I came back despite my better judgment. I even moved back into the old homestead, which is a two bedroom cottage, even though my parents are dead and buried. The.