Trent's office just called, Angie cancelled herlip thing at the last minute, anyone want the procedure, cheap," sheyelled into the backroom."What's go...ng on Cindy?" Ida asked."Angie cancelled her collagen appointment, Dr. Trent drove in from thecity, made his nurse come in, had the operating room prepped and Angiewas a no show for 9:30, if anyone wants the procedure he says he'll doit cheap," explained Cindy."Well.....?" Ida said to me, one eyebrow arched and a smile on her lips."Well what?" I. I woke up in the morning to another hot sunny day I'd promised mother that we'd do some shopping down in the town,but on noticing that the neighbour was busy carrying bags of compost into his house this gave me an idea .I apologized to mother saying that I didn't feel up to going shopping and blamed it on yesterdays wine and sun ,but said that I would walk her to the bus stop where she would meet my elder sister who was coming with us. after making sure that they both had got on the bus I. During the ride, we had not talked much, just about the weather and nothing much else. We walked in and took in the ambiance, everything in Hindu style; Indian dressed people were greeting us and brought us to our seats.Lots of light weight curtains, colorful and separating the booths from each other and dampening sound because we could hardly hear the voices from nearby booths.In the booth a low table, lots of pillows to sit on so no chairs to deal with and decision making if I had to pull. At the same time, my gut twinged. I hadn't gone home fantasizing about an ex. I'd gone home fantasizing about Sharon."So," I said, gesturing at the pictures, "are you going to give me a chance to practice?" Maybe," Sharon replied. "But not tonight. I'm hungry. How do you feel about Mexican?" Sounds good. La Estrellita?" Sure." Sharon swept her copies of the pictures into a pile and then grabbed her purse. I snagged my copies and stuck them in my jacket pocket.We parked about a block away from.