That’s not too old for me.”He was quiet again for a long time.“I have a possible solution,” he said slowly. “And you might not like it.”Wh...n we got home I went straight upstairs to pack my bags. I was gripped in the depths of despair. Josh wanted me to leave, to spend a year without seeing him. A year of no Josh. No calls, no texts, no Facebook. Nothing. And then, if we still felt this way after a year, we would talk again – and he would make love to me. A year without Josh was like a lifetime. I haven’t had your lovely wife hovering over my shoulder in quite some time. That’s always a joy...”“Hey now,” Margo said, “we were not that bad!”“Oh, yeah you were,” Kelly said.“Definitely,” Carol said from across the table.“I plead the fifth,” Harry said. “I don’t remember a lot of it.”“Wise man,” Mike replied. “All the same, don’t go out of your way on my account ... unless you want to bring me something really interesting...”“Snake shoved up my ass?”“Nope, they had one of those in the ER. During the nights you sort of gain a rep with a lot of the regulars. The railway workers were a hoot to talk to as they all seemed to be comedic geniuses, no matter what mood I was in they could make me laugh like nobodies business. Then you'd always get your grumpy business men who by talking to them you would think all they wanted to do was sleep but no they would stand there for hours just chatting away, I attributed that to them being lonely. A few lookers but nothing to write home to. ”“Nope. Just as I knocked on her door, the smoke alarm went off in her place. I heard her scrambling around, muttering, ‘Oh, shit, Oh shit,’ and I thought she was hurt, so fortunately, the door wasn’t locked, ‘cause I just burst in, saw what was happening, covered up the burning pan on the stove, and helped her clear the air by opening all the windows and fanning the place out.”“What then?”“Well, Sandy was wearing this white angora sweater that I really liked on her, with this nice pleated.