As she lay relaxing on the bed, her thoughts drifted back to a night, several years ago, just after she and Jake had spent an hour, in satisfying sexu...l activities."Jake, how did you ever get to be such an exciting lover?" You knew I wasn't a virgin, the first time we made love." Of course I knew. You told me so yourself, but you told me there had only been two before me, so I thought you were almost as inexperienced as I." You never asked me who they were, or when, so I never told you, 'cause. ”I laughed. “Oh, really? I seem to recall a message I got in Honduras about a future homicide!”Marilyn laughed, too, causing our son to gurgle and look around for her. “Well, the next time you leave me alone to have a baby, I’ll make good on that!”The waitress brought our sandwiches, and I stole Marilyn’s pickle and gave her my cole slaw. The waitress chatted with Marilyn and Charlie for a moment, and then went off. “So now what do we do?” asked my wife.“I guess the first thing is to figure out. Don't go upstairs."Nodding, Becky stumbled out into the main part of the house. She was still feeling kind of odd. There were less people than she remembered. Where did they go?She chatted up some of the other sisters, but they weren't interested in talking to plebeians. The last girl she tried to speak to hinted that she was falling behind in the competition.Finally, she approached one of the guys, a jock by the look of him: tall and muscled, with short, light brown hair. His name was Gabe.. The heavy hauler was going flat out at 7 MPH so they had traveled a safe distance in 10 seconds. The grenade actually exploded after 11 seconds, but that was quibbling. The first of a mass of ants had reached the grenade as it went off, and over 10 ants were killed or badly injured.It was nice to cut the number of the ants by that number, but the explosion had no other affect on the ants. They completely ignored the dead ants and the hole in the ground. Mary resolved not to waste any more hand.