I finished my homework for the night and was lying on my bed reading some magazine. It was around 10PM when Mike came in, after a night of moderate dr...nking with some of his friends who I didn't know very well at that time. Mike isn't a drinker and neither am I, so I could pick up his buzzed and slightly tipsy condition as soon as he walked in the door.He was in a playful mood and asked if I wanted to talk for a while or go to sleep. I wasn't sleepy yet so I said sure, let's talk, what's on. “I just wanted to give you company as I know you are missing the family and wife. “, she smiled.We walked into the kitchen and I offered her a beer. She sat at the head of the dining table and we started to drink and bullshit about nothing really. She complained about her job and her new ex-boyfriend. I listened and chimed in about my work. We ended up talking about our sex lives, or lack thereof. Marriage and 1 kid will kill a sex life! She seemed surprised that I wasn’t getting it much these. " Wait a minute," Andy said. "You said I started with a low salary inorder to screw Western Square. If you own it, what difference does itmake?" Sharp as a tack," Pick said. "Taxes. They're a write off. Created a bigass database. Gave me lots of qualified candidates. Too complex to gointo. Why else would I live in this god forsaken state? Tax accountantsrule the world, Andy. But that's another story. Drink up!"Andy took a drink of Coke."So here's the idea," Pick said, leaning forward."Women are. It was self defense actually. The plague was not responding to any of the antibiotics in existence, and people were dying in droves, everywhere. Some outlying communities had cut themselves off and it was a life or death matter to even try to enter one of these islands of civilization.Months later, the big cities were dead or abandoned. It was as much as your life was worth, to try to approach someone at this point. It was a 'shoot first and ask questions later' style of living. I was guilty of.