Gradually that had changed, and although there were still some who realised that the world was finely balanced, there were many more who took, and too..., and took, and never gave back. The Takers had lost touch with magic, and instead of working with nature, they fought against it. They even used toxic chemicals to force the earth to give more than was naturally available, then poured the toxic by-products of their technology back into the soil; gradually they were killing what they needed to. But having a car is in some ways the saving grace. I can pick up some extra pocket money by giving rides to the stores, malls, or clubs.When I want to go home for a visit I put up a note in the student union and I get a couple of riders. On a good trip I make gas money plus some extra.There is one trip I would like to tell you about. This trip I only got one rider but she gave me twenty dollars since she lived in the middle of no where. By the time we reached her house it was late afternoon. As. “I haven’t been to bed yet. I had an interesting night.”Mel agreed wholeheartedly and she didn’t know half of it.“That was some strange evening,” she said. “That ceremony at the school. What the hell was that about? Anyway, I wasn’t sure if you knew but Cedar Grove won last night. You’ll be playing them at home in the semifinal. I can’t wait to get home on Tuesday.“I’ve been thinking about you a lot,” she said softly.Brock remembered the kiss from a couple of weeks before. He had exchanged. ”The blond guy opened his lunch and said “Bologna again! If I get one more bologna sandwich one more time I’m also going to jump.”The next day the Irishman opened his lunch, saw corned beef and cabbage and jumped to his death. The Mexican opened his lunch, saw a burrito and leaped off the scaffold. The blond guy opened his lunch, saw bologna again and leaped to his death also.At the funeral the Irishman’s wife was weeping. She said “If I’d known how really tired he was of corned beef and.