" Quan grinned and elbowed ding. "Welcome. If you needanything, ask." He shook cheri's hand.Cheri cut her eyes to susan."Ah, yes," ding said. He also ...hook cheri's hand. "Susan has alreadynamed us. Infortunable." He bowed. "Formal introductions. I'm ding cheeferguson. This is quantrell skidmore. Third year robotics. We are fatedto leave school early to roll in incalculable wealth. Or," he shrugged,"join a prison gang. Hard to say which."Cheri had no idea how to reply.Quan reached up. The drone. Usually I wouldn't mind someone making themselves at home, but I remembered that he smelled a little ripe in the hallway and definitely needed to use my shower. Not wanting to sound rude I asked him if he wanted to clean up as I was about do so myself and was offering him first dibs. He waved me off and giggled at some random message that had popped up on his phone. I started up the water after having closed both my bedroom door and the bathroom door behind me. I was in heaven finally being. "Melanie sighed and asked "You make any coffee, yet? I feel like I've been awake all night."In hindsight I have to tell you that this clue flew so far over my head that I never even heard a "whoosh".Given that I now habitually made coffee for her-- my ex had trained me well and the habits had stayed with me once she'd left me-- it only took a couple of seconds to pour her some coffee and fix it up the way she liked in the mornings.When we sat down at her small conference table each of us had. It was then that Pooja suggested that I go out for a blind date and checkand test myself. I stared at her and said, "No way, I am not going to havesex with anyone else other than my Raj." Pooja suddenly stared at me andrepeated. "MY Raj, ahh? And I am not asking to have sex with anyone, justa casual date" I ignored her and smilingly went away. Pooja then shoutedfrom back , "Just a normal date to see and test yourself and we would fixthe date on the web and I would be keeping a watch on you so.