" She picked up her peg and advanced it well past the last hole on the board. "And that," she said with a small smile, "puts me out. That's two in a r...w I've whipped your ass." Yeah yeah," Leanette said with a good-natured grunt as she threw down her uncounted cards. "This is a stupid game." It sure is," Maria agreed. "You wanna play again?" Screw that. What else we got in here?" We have Monopoly," Maria, the veteran of this particular post told her. "Chrissie actually replaced the Monopoly. I need you to store up your energy. We'll be acting out some of this story tonight."Amy is my niece, Kylie's baby. She's having her first birthday and we are supposed to go. Kids birthday parties, how much fucking fun is that. "I say we miss it and I'll tie you up and then anally rape you." I teased. "That's my Plan A. My Plan B would be along similar lines but would also include some spanking. Plan C . . . Well I don't think you're ready for Plan C yet." I'll take all of that. But later. Come. Ilooked after her, my mouth hanging open, my retort stopping before itbegan. I was flabbergasted. My daughter was barely 18 years old, and justpreparing to start college in the fall. She had been such a goodstudent, getting straight A's in high school. Some may have consideredher to be a nerd, but to me she was daddy's little girl, not to mentionhard working and ambitious. Admittedly she had had a rough time sinceher mother, my wife, died. But, that was more than a year ago. This wasnot the. .And so it was, one morning when she arrived after 10am that I finally lost my cool. "You may as well not have bothered today..." I said, looking at my watch as she came through the door. A blazing row ensued, which resulted in her busting into tears and storming out of my room down to HR...The following week though, her time-keeping was much improved, and slowly I began to think I'm winning. She'd temporarily arranged for her parents to help with the k**s, while she found a more permanent.