I hadn’t really thought about sharing an apartment with a guy, but….why not? I told him to come by that evening so we could meet and discuss the d...tails.After my shift at work, I was sitting in my living room watching TV when the prospective roommate knocked on the apartment door.When I opened the door I saw a fairly attractive man….maybe 4 years older than I was…with broad shoulders and a big smile. I stuck my hand out and introduced myself, “Hi, I’m Chrissy. Thanks for answering my ad.”“Hi,. I made myself comfortable on the floor, it’s where I belonged, cast out beyond the reach of our paradise island we call a bed. “It was a really great story. I think we all should hear it. I especially want to hear Tegan’s point of view,” Benito suggested. Riva pushes Benito off the couch on top of me. “Maybe as a group. You guys know better,” Riva said. Riva follows Tegan. I try to get up with Benito on top of me to follow the girls, but Jonas leans off the bed and stops me anyway. “Riva. I like how that turned out yesterday, but here is the way I had planned it originally.I drove the 50 miles to my doctor's office for the annual exam that would include, of course, checking for hernia and checking of my prostate. This doctor knows that I am open to having student doctors examine me because I believe that education of future doctors requires having some citizens willing to undergo examinations under the eye of an established doctor.I was led into the examination room by a medical. Since there were fifty of us in the class and the test required each of us to speak on a prepared topic for ten minutes, the 'midterm' took 500 minutes. Eight hours and twenty minutes. The slot for the final was only two hours, so the previous three classes and the first three classes after spring break were all dedicated to the midterm. If we could have just gone to the class during which we had to speak, it would have been fine. But part of the public speaking course was listening. We had to.