"It's your birthday. I came out here to celebrate with you. This whole experience is meant to be your gift."That quieted her for a moment, but then sh... started, "But why did you come all this way? Surely it wasn't just for me. How long did it take? Did you drive the whole way? Didn't you stop to rest along the way? Did you do any sightseeing?"I held up my hands to halt the flurry of questions. "Hold on there. Let me answer before you shoot another question at me." I took her hands in mine and. Susan has been watching everything you’ve done and she was impressed, but that wasn’t enough to decide that you could really handle the job.“I needed to know that you would come to the same conclusions as I would have, when given the same set of facts. If you are going to be in charge of the operational aspects of this company I need to know that you’re going to be making good decisions. You just proved it. Promoting Kevin to District Manager was a good decision and it didn’t take you long to. John saw me off and I knew he would not be worried about me and would soon have gone to bed, he had work next day. We just expected to have had a meal and a good evening out as we always did and he only stayed up waiting for me if I was expecting some sexual adventure or if I had called and asked him as I`ve just explained We workers had a meal and then some drinks, it was all good fun, then after a while we broke up and went our own ways, three or four of us ending up at Pauls very. “what would I have to do?” “Here’s what I’m thinking.” Kevin went on. “I’ll deal and you two play against the dealer. When I win the hand, you too remove a piece of clothing. When I lose the hand, I will. Sound good?” “Let’s do it!” Amanda said “I’ll get us more beers” “Alright I suppose” Ellie shrugged “Why not?” The first couple of hands went very badly for Kevin. Ellie kept a calm face through the first hands only to get a full house on the turn card followed by a two pair queens and.