I succeeded because the one thing I was determined to rescuefrom this situation was my self-respect. I wouldn't go under. Shoppersmight laugh and poin.... Children might hurl abuse. Friends and familymight turn their heads from me. I'd tell them all to eat their own shit.Better all round if it didn't come to that.I needed to look at the big picture. As a Geography graduate, I wastrained to take a systematic approach to problems and devise integratedsolutions to them. I had to work on the. All the others saddled their own. Tod and Bruce watched from the door of the feed barn. The trucks, both of them, were due any minute. Tod had gone inside and got the smaller tractor, with the fork attachment, and a chain hook to pull the pallets of feed close enough to lift on the forks, and set inside the barn. With it, they could have the trucks unloaded in 45 minutes to an hour. If they had had to unload it by hand, it would have taken all day. Bruce looked over at Tod, when he heard the. She insisted on taking the bills because she wanted to pay me back. To be honest I didn't really expect her to since I knew she wasn't going to be earning much in Mac's hotel.Hey, look, I didn't need the money. Since my wife left me, taking the kids with her I had nothing to spend my cash on. She and her fancy man never asked for maintenance for the kids although I had offered it. No, they drove a bleeding great wedge between me and my kids. The bloody family courts would do nothing to help me. " What? Friends?!? That wasn't part of-" Relax! They're just like me. You're going to love it." She etched out"PIG" in the same big letters across his right ass cheek. "Just enjoy theride, slut! I daresay you're getting way more than you deserve."No sooner had the words escaped her lips than the room's only dooropened. The voices of several chattering women could be heard as theyentered; their boot heels stomping on the motel floor.Valerie tossed the lipstick on his back and laid her fully.