" Marcy remarked, "That explains the 20% drop in rentals."All of our rental sites had one of those emergency access key boxes on the wall by the secur...ty gate. Marcy used her smart phone to find the code for the Charlotte site and the code for the alarm system. After the gate was up and the lights on we searched the office and found the keys for the cars and everything we needed to rent cars. While Marcy and Jenny fired the computers up I took the auto inventory sheet and went to the parking. Then, on the Friday of the third week, Alex was approached by Gayle, and amanager that he hadn't seen since his first day; it was Debbie, who was incharge of the Lingerie Department. Gayle asked if they could have a word--in private--so all three of them went into a nearby stock room."Alex," began Gayle "I, well we, have a special favour to ask. Debbie isshort staffed due to illness, and she's got one of her ladies leaving tomorrow,so she is desperate for help from Monday."Debbie continued. Except I wasn't. I was transgendered and theopportunity for this fact to be open and discussed passed me by quickerthan you could say malpractice. My mother, bless her open mindedness gaveme the opportunity to buy my own clothes of my choosing to wear what Iwanted when I wanted and as any typical teenager would, I instead chose totry and conform, to avoid being anything other than normal.I have regretted this decision ever since and to my shame; at times haveblamed my mum for not forcing the. But from the sound of her voice – and maybe more so my unconscious mind speedily fumbling through a few complicated calculations which had their roots in long discarded memories — I figured that it was far more likely that she was a mere child. My high speed mental gymnastics led me to the conclusion that she could be no more than thirteen years old… roughly, mental maths ain’t ever been a strong point of mine. Unless I’m calculating dart scores that is, which is a subtraction exercise anyway..