He screamed while I heard the loud barked shouts of someone further distant.”That man is getting mugged, Police! Help!”Both attackers wore bio sea... suits with rain hoods drawn around their heads. Their faces concealed behind flesh colored masks.The uninjured one grabbed the still howling man by the shoulder and dragged him away. Everything had happened very fast.Still somewhat stunned by the blow against my head, I saw them disappear into the entrance of a bar.My wrist felt as if it was broken,. He told me that he'd fought the good fight, but Mama wasn't a woman easily given to accepting either criticism or compromise. The upshot of it all was, he wanted me to return home. He also made a very casual mention that he was so busy at work, he'd be spending a few nights sleeping over at the apartment we kept in Bolling. I wasn't surprised at that news. It was a usual thing for Dad to go visit the Bolling apartment for awhile, when he and Mama were engaged in one of their longer fights. He. OK. But something was helping me to break out of the season-long slump that had been threatening my future. Why not give Emmy the credit? I had never noticed any correlation, in the past, between my competence on the baseball field and my love life. Then again, I'd never had a sexual dry spell to equal the one I'd been experiencing this season.Eddie, certainly, wasn't deliberately causing my drought. On the contrary, he was the head cheerleader for the Getting Dave Laid Squad. But the effect of. “Can you get the milk out the fridge Dad?” Lisa asked forcing me to stand up with both of them looking directly at my protruding bulge, “Thank you Daddy” she said grinning as I handed her the milk and sat back down admiring the view given by the two chief cooks.The eggs were good, just like Mother used to make them and we chatted away while we ate, I was very conscious of the foot that was rubbing my leg and as I looked across it was obvious from her facial expression who it was, Damn I was.