But something kept telling me to listen some more.Then she said that they started drinking wine and bitching about was scum some woman and men were. S...e said that she knew she was drinking more than she should. Finally, she said that she had decided that she wanted to see what Rodney would do if he thought she would be easy. So she pretended to pass out on the couch. It must have been all Rodney needed to act. I fast forwarded on the tape and when I started it again it was Rodney talking to the. Apparently, they were more successful than I had expected, since I picked up $512 from their money belts. Hell, they should have quit while they were ahead!To celebrate my good fortune, I spent the night in a hotel, instead of camped near the road. I really think that I made a poor choice, though I am sure that the bedbugs enjoyed their feast. I really itched the next morning, but I rubbed some horse lineament on the bites, and they quit itching.My next encounter with road agents was a bit more. She was about to throw herself back into the charged atmosphere of make-believe adventure and romance that is the movie business, as a single, unattached, desirable and very beautiful woman, in my mind to be surrounded by slavering wolves in the guise of leading men used to getting their way with any women they temporarily desired. While I returned to my life as a single and seriously unattached bachelor, who had been touched by love twice in my lifetime and already resigned to coping with the. Office buildings, libraries, schools, gas stations, grocery stores, even homes, all destroyed. The shadows were the only things left of the beautiful civilization we’d worked so hard to build, and now it was as if the whole world had just broken and turned grey. The temperature was dropping quickly. You could feel it deep inside you, squeezing your heart. Then the alarms began to sound. The sirens, the shrill voices of the screaming dead, wailed out of the speakers and reverberated through the.