" I don't want to run around topless," I said."I'm not saying you have to. I'm just saying a woman should have the same choices men do," Mom said."I ...hink all of this nudity stuff is making you crazy, Mom," I said.Mom laughed and said, "Maybe you think so, but I think it's helping me learn about myself." How so, Mom?" Glen said."Well, I'm learning what I'm capable of and what I’m willing to do. I never knew I could sit around the pool topless until I tried it. I also never knew how much I. Before I started my sentence, he waved me off."Don't try to snow me," he said, popping open a beer. "I've been bullshitted by doctors, lawyers, judges, hookers, shoe salesmen. I've been lied to by experts, me boy." Well," I said, "it's like this. There's this real sensitive, real smart kid at school. But the other kids treat him like a freak because he's got a big vocabulary, and he knows all about Shakespeare and Steinbeck and he doesn't play any sports or anything. He gets roughed up and. I knew you'd dump me over it, but I couldn't lie to you." Oh, I'm not dumping you," she said. She laughed at my shocked expression. "Really. I'm not even mad. Like I said, I knew what was happening. I'm just glad you like me better." Of course I do!" I said, still surprised she wasn't angry. I paused, then added, "Are you sure you're okay with what happened." Sure," she said. "I've been competing with her for years. She'd always try and come on to any guy who ever talked to me. You can't. The cold tea started to do its work, she lay there, legs apart, openly and liberally pissing herself.To add to her woes the park warden was watching this display, at the sound of his movement she opened her eyes and saw him standing over her with a cane at the ready. “Pissing in public, three on each breast and six on the arse should cover it” he said. She had tried to explain that she was already in sufficient pain and did not need any more. The park warden either did not understand her.