Richard would cheerfully repeat the process nowadays if you crossed him.Recently, Richard had been inviting me over to his luxury West End flat, maybe...once or twice a week for the last couple of months. Richard had aspirations to be a respectable businessman and could afford an expensive apartment. On my visits I was invited to share a meal with him and his beautiful missus in the early evening, all sitting together in his posh dining room, and he expected me to dress up like a bleeding penguin. " I had said exasperated. All the sudden he stood up, and came around the front of his desk. He gestured for me to sit down, and I did. "If you don't know what were doing maybe you should stay after school, and I can help you with your homework." He said handing me my homework. "And second of all I gave you those grades so that you could come to me in private, and not have to ask in front of your friends." Oh.....well I guess I could stay after school, but you are going to give me the. The union job was perfect for an underachiever like me for as long as you pay your dues and show up everything goes along fine. It was around this time in my life that I discovered marijuana and it was finally something at which I could excel it’s just too bad I couldn’t find anyone to pay me to do it. It was as if my whole life I had been practicing for pot smoking only now as we hung out we passed a joint around. When I met my second wife, it was perfect, as she liked doing the same things. ..” I trailed off. I looked over at my mum who looked like she was about to cry. “Mum? What is it? What’s wrong?” She just shook her head, not saying anything. I looked back at Nurse Roth. “What is it?”“Nothing,” she said, soothingly. “You finished your race and then became unconscious in the water. Medical staff couldn’t help you regain consciousness by the pool so you were taken to the emergency medical centre first, where it was confirmed there didn’t appear to be anything life threatening.