"Rule One!" she says, striking the board with a pointer. "All students will maintain a sense of proper decorum at all times. Rule Two! No student may ...ntertain a student of the opposite gender in their room at any time. Rule Three! All students will..."Miss Stoller goes on for the next thirty minutes with her list of rules, making it quite clear that she intends to run the place like a convent. You notice that one of the guys chuckles when she reads the rule about not peeking through keyholes -. She was challenging the status quo. All she needed was an ally and the avalanche of solidarity would soon follow. So it came. Now we were downstairs in the man cave, fresh Margs before us. I was enjoying my alcohol buzz and I really didn’t care if we played cards or not but since the women had united and breached the sanctuary of the man cave, we had to play at least few hands of some card game. Of course, poker it was. Our host kept refilling the pitcher of Margs that kept circling the table.. ”“Did you leave room to eat, later?” my mother asked.“All we had was popcorn, one hot dog each and soda at the movie. I don’t know about the others but getting a meal from my mother is always on my mind.”“April!” her mother said, “You didn’t get all of your lipstick off Michael.”SHIT!Mrs. Nicholas took the opportunity to ask us all over for dinner later in the day.Our mothers went into conspiratorial mode to put together a nice meal for all of us. April’s dad gave me a long look before April. I didn't care about anything. I was hoping they would just kill me, and get it over with.Nurse Joy rolled my limp body back over so I was on my back once again and she said, "I have to change your bandages in a minute, so tell me if I hurt you."She took off the bandages and smeared ointment all over the flat area between my legs and put clean bandages on, carefully avoiding my catheter, "All done! I have another shot for you." She jabbed me and blissful nothingness enveloped me again.***This.