.. while we lowly prammies were making one lap.Eventually, some enterprising soul would eschew the sprit rig of the Optimist and rig Bermuda; a main a...d a jib with real standing rigging and innovate the second slowest dinghy class ... but that came Much later. By then I was surfing Lasers and Lightnings.Be that as it may ... world wide, there are one hundred and fifty thousand Optimist prams with District, Regional, National and International events ... all going slow.We learned that age made. So I'm going to have to work for part of the morning until she can see the doctor and than, hopefully, come in. Either way she's promised to get a sub for me for the afternoon and we should be able to be on the road by noon." Well, you just tell Margaret to quit drinking so much," snapped Denise, "She's probably just hung over and not wanting to work in the morning." Look, Denise, I'm sorry ok? I just got off the phone with her and she left me on the line more than once to be sick. I know she. Of course, no one raised an eyebrow at two women out together as theymight have had I been accompanied by a young man. As far as they wereconcerned, we were simply two female friends or mother and daughter oraunt and niece. If only the boys glancing appraisingly at pretty Rebeccaknew what she had under the cute skirt she was wearing or what we got upto in bed, I thought to myself. Our sex life was fantastic. Becca neverseemed interested in penetrative sex with me, although she would have. After scanning the crowd the auctioneer said, “I’ll tell you what, men. We’ll amalgamate lots 171A and 171B into one lot, but we’ll stick with my suggested opening bid. Who’s going to make the first bid?”Matti could see that the auctioneer’s offer, essentially a 2 for 1 sale, didn’t seem to be of interest to any of the other bidders, so after waiting for a few seconds Matti bid. His bid was made strongly, and was for barely a quarter of the suggested opening bid. He raised his bidder’s card.