.”This time I did laugh. “Like renting a go-kart at the amusement park. Might be good for a few laps around the track, but for the long trip, you ...ant something else.”He grinned. “Oooo-kayyyyy then ... Ellie ... Her mom says you’re a good friend. She used you for a safe place this week.”“I’m her friend, Alex. I would never take advantage of the situation.”“It’s a bad situation,” he said. “And you know how it is when the nights are long and dark and lonely.”“What are you, a poet?”He laughed. He collapsed on me. I wrapped him with my legs and arms. And we remained like that for quite some time. After that, my father was a reformed man. He gave up burglary. My mother was a happy and relieved woman. She showered praise on me for the change of behavior in my father. My father and I, we took utmost care not to disturb my mother’s make belief. But we went together for grazing the herd and engaged frequently in out-door shootings. On course, my father narrated me all his stories. His. I was quite disappointed when I saw it was a man who was sitting beside me. But later I found him speaking to a lady who was sitting a few seats ahead of us. He was asking her to exchange the seats to sit with his girlfriend. His girlfriend was seated beside that lady.As soon as I saw the lady, I was mesmerized by her beauty. She was in a yellow salwar kameez and was looking stunning. She came and sat beside me and my heart was pounding in full speed. After about 5 minutes, I decided to break. No, it's not 'dirty' work at all. We have to go to a bunch of electrical substations all over north Alabama and plug a computer in to each of several protective devices and download the programming from each of them. I figure a couple of weeks will do it. I bring Susan along, she gets to see the real work, gets familiar with some of the hardware, and neither of us has to spend the night alone. Plus, all those miles of driving, I have Susan to talk with.Of course, this has the side effect of.