Mia quickly scrambled back inside her room in the nick of time before her grandpa flung her door open, "Get downstairs to the den," Martin commanded.M...a saw the belt in his hand and tensed up, "Please Popoff."Martin grabbed Mia firmly by the arm and led her down the stairs at a fast pace, as she attempted not to stumble; her arm hurting from his grasp. "Assume the position," he commanded as he thrust her inside the den and doubled the belt and snapped it taut for emphasis."No Popoff," Mia began. ..”She sighed dramatically. “One, it’s a great deal. We’re helping out friends...”“That you just juked out of seven hundred thousand dollars...”“Haggling. He makes some, we get a deal. Second, if you and Anders and Beck think it’s that bad an idea, I’ll strip my own bank accounts. Third, and again, if it’s a bad idea, we can resell it for a solid profit. But right now, we’re flying Lenya back home because Haley and I want to spend a little cuddle time with our husbands, and if we had the plane. So the woman with the simple goal of relieving herself went to the hiddenrestroom. The hallway to this store's truly private restroom was tuckedaway on the left hand side, three quarters of the way in the storesurrounded by the History Section of the store. Almost no one was ever inthat section during this time of the day. It should be coast clear forher to do her business in peace.The one good thing Ruth found about being more discreet about where shewent, was she ended up using bathrooms. In Quebec, méchouis are fairly common. As a matter of fact, I bought the barbecue unit from a snowbird who used to do them as a sideline." Snowbird... ?" Yeah, that's an interesting phenomenon here in North America. In most of Canada and also in some of the more northern states, the weather in winter is really awful ... so quite a few retirees and some seasonal workers come south for the winter. In November, all you see on the road are caravans and trailers, all headed south, then in April,.