He wanted, instead, to set up temporary rescue centers on higher ground, just in case, and stock them with some food and water, if necessary.“Mayor ...agin, let me make sure I understand you. Everybody else wants to shut down the area and get everybody out, and you don’t? Do I have that correct?” I asked.“Mister President, that is hardly my position...” He was off and running. The bottom line was that if he ordered an evacuation, he would be causing chaos among the residents who were unable to. ”“Shouldn’t you be out on a ledge somewhere?”“There are two kinds of people in this world: people who care what you think, and people like me.”“If I throw a stick, will you leave?”“Don’t talk about yourself so much ... we’ll do that when you leave.”“The reason you’d even call me that, tells me that you’re ignorant, unclassy, and illiterate.”“I have way more important things to do than thinking about what you have to say to me.”“You’re not human, you’re a black hole that sucks the life out of. She was the most magnificent woman any of them had ever seen. Very tall, she moved with the grace of a ballet dancer and the poise of a queen. Wearing a green cocktail dress that complemented her basically brown hair, the women looked at it and gasped.In fact, there was an audible drawing-in of breath as they realized the woman’s dress was cut down to her navel in front and beyond the beginning of her cleavage in the rear. The long skirt was slit up to the hip on both sides exposing utterly. The kids didn’t like that idea much. Kids basically hate to walk anywhere. Especially not with parental adults! But it sure beat sitting outside the repair shop on the cold, hard asphalt all night while waiting for the repair shop to open in the morning. When the crowded tow truck arrived at the shop, it turned out that this auto shop was a mere 4 blocks from the rented garage where Dan stored his restored classic car. So after paying the tow-truck driver, making sure his broken-down van was.