The reason for this was that many of the men who ended up on the punishment detail were troublemakers, and it simply made practical sense to keep them...in leg-irons. I suppose the ‘Robert Perez’ who deserved to be in my shoes had been a troublemaker, and my innocence regarding the ways of the prison had been interpreted as an attempt to play stupid. It was bad enough to be in prison, but life was especially hard for the unfortunates who are chained. First, your ankles are connected with a ‘strad. Whilst outside the club I recognised my bfs best friend approching me. He asked if I was walking home, I said yes and laughed, Im all out of money. We both headed off home, it was nice to have some company from a guy I already knew, made me feel safer to walk home late at night. About ten minutes after setting off the worst starts to happen, it begins to rain. But hey dont matter I was tipsey and had some one to walk me home. As we walk down an alley way, he suddenly pushed me up against this. "I set the whole thing in motion!" But after she'd explained her reasons for her own inclusion his arguments crumbled. There was, he saw clearly, no valid reason for him to go; there were imposing ones for her. He grumbled, he pouted, but he couldn't disagree and in the end he acquiesced gracefully.Because as much of the Ark's enormous available space as possible had to be left free—free for the precious cargo it hoped to collect from Eden. Unlike on all previous missions the ship's purpose was. The main engines of the Service Module cut in on time and we were again thrown back into our seats. We circled the moon gaining speed. This did not last long and soon we were back at work.Four tiring days later we came back to Earth orbit. I had done many tests to see if moon bugs had attacked us but I could not prove that there was no life on the moon yet. We would have to go into quarantine with our rocks till the time was passed. The same thing was required when the other time people had.