Not a huge task, a quick dust around and remember to retrieve my panties from atop the Christmas tree. Then I prepare some mince pies, and savoury sna...ks for Jill and Chas, it will be nice to spend the evening with someone. It’s odd, seven thirty and no sign of them, I know we agreed seven but a few minutes longer will do no harm. I look across the road and I can see Jill’s Range Rover, but no sign of Chas’s Jag. Eight o’clock something is clearly wrong I think, so taking the bull by the horns,. ”“I feel like I dodged a bullet,” I said.“I suspect you made better choices for partners than we did. We weren’t exactly discriminating.”“Perhaps, but I’ve actually dodged a few bullets because the girls insisted I have any potential partners get tested for STDs.”“To be honest, if I had to do it over, I’d make a clean STD test the price of admission to the parties. When we were at OSU it wasn’t quite so risky - there were four couples and we all stuck to ourselves. But once we graduated and got. Not! She fidgeted. It was noticed.“Business,” Mrs Broadbent pushed a button on a remote. The rollup door clattered its way to the top.“It’s at the back,” she said.Ooo ... interesting ... we’re going to have to move a couple of shipping containers completely packed floor to ceiling worth of ‘junk’ to get to the back. How do I know there was that much junk? We filled two 40’s before we got to the car.“Alice,” I whispered, “How did you know?”“Window ... I peeked ... and she posted it on the Aldi. We went out to recon a supposed mountain hideout for the guerrillas in central Afghanistan, northwest of Jabol-os-Saraj, which is north of Kabul. Where we were was to the east of the A76 Highway; at least that is what it says on our maps. Anyway, we had been air dropped into the foothills of the mountains. I don't think anyone knows the names of these damn things. It was near a place called Kuh-e Kokzaro Zaghicha on my map. We were in the fourth day of following a well-worn trail, when we heard.