She yowled in her sleep and started sniffing the air ... still asleep."I think she's waking up," said Grace. "What did you do with the hamburger?"I sl...pped myself on the forehead, "Shit!" David," said Grace, "Don't tell me you forgot it!" Ok." Ok, what?" Ok, I won't tell you I forgot it." I got up and fetched the packet from just outside the door."If you weren't my brother..." the rest was best left unsaid ... she did.Grace gestured with her left-hand kit. "Sit," she said, "As soon as she's. " He groaned again, and pumped my hand harder. At that point, I felt a smear of hot slickness descend under my hand, feeling like warm oil as my hand was rubbed over and over it. My eyes opened wide in the darkness. Oh God It's Lisa's dad. It was pitch black, almost four in the morning, and I couldn't see anything. I was fully awake now, in a shock. A dawning realization came over me, and I began to have a sinking idea of what was going on. This is a penis? I thought back to this afternoon when. Turned ‘em over. Two more minutes at least. The bagged salad was ready to eat. Salad bowls full. “Sam, get out your favorite steak sauce and salad dressing.”“Sure thing Caro ... I mean sure thing Z.”He reached for a tissue to wipe tears. Seeing him sad like that brought tears to my eyes too.“It’s a good thing I didn’t cut onions or we would be out of tissues for sure.”I was surprised to hear myself saying that. But we both laughed so no harm, no foul, I guess.The potatoes felt like they would. Escape button, the Enter button, even Ctrl, Alt and Delete but nothing worked. As a last resort I even tried turning the damn thing off but that too stubbornly refused to co-operate. By now I was livid, and looked at thin black electric cable functioning like an umbilical cord with an evil glint in my eye. I was sorely tempted to rip the damn thing out of my offending laptop, but my story was still frozen on the screen and I couldn’t remember having saved my work. All in all I was royally.