"Looks like the ice and the jolt messed up the magnetic strip on thekey."He looks me up and down one more time and says, "I do not want to makeyou la...e for your date. I know the front desk clerk and I will run downand get a replacement card key."Before I could say anything he leaves. I set the ice bucket down andnervously wait for him to return.He comes back a few minutes later with a new key. Sliding it into thelock he opened the door for me. I walked in and and to my surprise hefollowed me. " But the reason that Itend the tree is that I almost killed it." How?" Years ago, I was a Woodsman and I had chosen to chop it down forfirewood. But has I was chopping it down, a Wood Nymph appeared andtried to stop me." She must have been too late." That she was." What happened next?"[-][+][-]"Why are you molesting my tree human?" I did not know that it was your tree, where were you?" I was visiting my sister deep in the forest." I will stop chopping down your tree." It is too late, already. "After all I just have to lie here don't I."Charlotte shrugged her shoulders and laughed. "Well you can't fault her logic can you. And we did promise, didn't we."That was all my father needed to hear. He wheeled her towards the table where Vikki's father was already lying in wait for his second partner of the day. A quick adjustment of the table and an exhausted but determined Maria was soon out of her chair and upright with her back to the table. Assistance from Freddy and nurse Martha. Most left after that but there were a few groupies that would not take no for an answer and the guys I simply ignored, the women on the other hand, what can I say because other than Julie, company had been sparse. After the first day, which was spent meeting a few of the athletes as well as the moneymen involved, Jamie and I spent the nights cruising the bars.Because we were using University of Melbourne for my 'interview', the bars around school were packed at night with women more than.