“The first is what inflation is doing to our rent. When I moved into the neighborhood five years ago, my rent was thirty percent lower than it is no.... It seems like everything has been targeted toward making rent too expensive to live there so we’d move out and the building could be converted.”“You don’t have to worry about that any longer. We’re not doing any more conversions.”“I’m glad to hear that,” Tim said, “but our rent increases are still outstripping inflation. We’d like some kind of. " I knew they had conversations about school."No, we REALLY talk. About love and marriage and stuff." You didn't tell me y'all talked about that." Girl talk," she said. "Everybody's interested in how I knew you were The One." That's all?" I asked. I knew my nieces. I suspected more.Giggle. "Other stuff, too." Other stuff," I said. "What 'other stuff'?" Apparently there's a lot of misconceptions out there about the ability of 'old guys', you know, like FORTY..." I am afraid to ask..." I. The Dells had been a theme park before the term ‘theme park’ was invented, a postwar leftover from my parents’ youth. I gritted my teeth and thanked them and prepared to endure a weekend at one of the Dells water parks. But my mother invited RoseAnn along, and the prospect abruptly became interesting. The weekend became a real birthday gift when my parents decided they would sleep in one hotel room while I’d share the adjoining double room with RoseAnn. It was all very proper. At day’s end, she. "Stop that, now that we have hot water, go take a shower. Then take me to buy a car." I don't need a shower," I said it grinning."Yes you do you stink of sex." she smiled at me when she spoke."I know, like I said I don't need a shower." You are so bad. Now get up and shower so that I can."From noon until five we looked at new cars. From five until six we ate dinner while she agonized over what to buy. I had a feeling she would bypass the SUV since it was an environmental nightmare. I was right.