Go, girl, go!"While she was busy I talked to the other bidders. We arranged to not step on each other's feet because I mentioned that we might see som... record LOW bids. I shook the document I had in front of the lot of them. "No minimum bids and no reserves are mentioned anywhere in this thing. A dollar bid is a legal bid. Understand? Just keep it to fair bids." I saw several wolfish smiles. Despite what I said, we all knew that a dollar bid could be rejected by the court. There was a law on. “That’s twice in this room Dennis.” Mandy said when she was able. “When are we starting on the other rooms.”“Soon darling, soon.”About an hour later the doorbell rang again. This time Dennis made it to the door before Mandy did.“I’ve got everything that I need for now Mr. Wilson, the builders will be here week after next to get started.”“It’s Dennis please, we keep everything informal here. What time will the workmen start and finish each day Ian?”“Very unlikely that anyone will be here before. Do you want to talk about it?”“What happened on your shoot?” I asked. “You never mentioned anything about it when we talked, or saw each other.”“Young studio executive interfering at every turn, thinking that he knows more about making movies than anybody in the cast, and crew.” She said. “He wanted to add an arbitrary nude scene into the film, that would have made absolutely no sense, because, and I quote, sex is the only thing that sells.”“Sounds like the kid should be in porn production, not. The most notable thin' 'bout the hotel was the size of the bedbugs. I sure was glad I had my hat!As I kind of expected, I had ta argue with the clerk 'bout collecting the $35. That was enough money fer anybody ta be concerned about. I gave him Ma's lead-meltin' stare an' he came around. I spent the day in Ft. Worth just goofin' around listenin' ta the gossip in the saloons.I didn't learn much, since most people just wanted ta talk politics. They was mostly wonderin' who was gonna replace.