"Sorry," I said in awe. The old man smiled warmly. "Look, Matt, I'm really sorry. I'vebeen having a really bad day. I got this huge shipment of ring... theother day and... that's not really important. I want to make it up toyou and since customer satisfaction is one of my top priorities, I'mgoing to practically give you a very special set of rings." "What do they do?" I asked, intrigued. "You have friends that you completely trust, don't you?" he asked."Don't answer, I already know. There's. "The second man came into the meeting room with three other men dressed similarly to the first two. The man we had been talking to was in the center when they sat down, and asked, "Churchman Carlman, who have you brought to us today?"The preacher stood up to speak, but the elder waved him to sit back down. The preacher said, "You know I have an easy name to use instead of Churchman Carlman. Please just call me 'Jim'."The five elders all nodded, but didn't say anything, so Jim continued, "You. “We’ve imposed on you enough. We should be getting back to Allen’s apartment. We will also need to spend some time with the cats, but we can do that outside in the dark,” I told the O’Donnells.“It is past our bedtime, but we don’t get up quite as early as we used to. My children have taken over most of the farming, and we just have a few acres for vegetables and things,” Aunt Grania told us with a bit of a smile, as she came over to give me a kiss before we left. Uncle Thad was shaking Allen’s. The view of the lake with the dock and rolling lawn behind her house was beautiful. Again, dinner was pleasant and the movie was all right, just a bit mushy for me. Disaster struck on the way home. When we came out of the movie it was raining. About halfway to her house we had a flat tire. When I called the recognized AAA roadside repair service on my cell phone they told me it would be at least an hour before they could come and change the tire, so, in the rain I put on the funny little.