“ ... here you are forty fucking years old, with two kids ... one away at college and another one at home, who’ll be there in two years ... yet yo... display behavior that neither of your kids would do.Seriously David...” She paused slightly to allow the full impact of her usage of my entire first name to penetrate. I was normally referred to as Honey, Hun, Sweetie, Dave, or Davey. Being called David meant that I’d be expected to do some major ass-kissing once this had all blown over.I decided. Sixty rooms out of the 80 converted to apartments, say, ten two bedroom apartments and 20 one bedroom apartments would leave the 20 rooms to rent either by the week or as hotel rooms."Being conservative, the apartment rentals if the building was fully rented would come to about $17,000 a month. It would be hard to tell what income you could generate from the bar, restaurant, convenience store, and fuel sales but I am sure it would be pretty good. If the owner didn't want to operate the. “It’s been known to happen,” I grinned, “though the four of us are just friends.”“I’ll take a Sprite or 7-Up, if you have one.”“Sure.”I got up and went to the fridge in the bedroom to get a bottle of 7-Up for Sophia.“So, after two weeks in paradise, what do you think?” Clarissa asked Sophia as I came back into the room.“It’s weird living away from home, but so far classes aren’t too bad. Not like the stuff you guys were working on when I finished my studying!”I handed her the green bottle and. They had all the usual things, doggems and rides, but they also had a small marquee with some circus and stage acts. The act we saw was a hypnotist, he was old, fat and ugly, but he sure had talent. Joanne was the first one up on the stage, followed by a half-a-dozen others. He had them hypnotised in short order, then had them doing chicken or dog impressions, It was all very funny; although I did notice that he paid more attention to Jo than to the others; she was the only pretty young girl.