Nervously I quickly try it several more times. I can feel him staring atme the entire time."Oh no," I say.He moves in next to me saying, "Let me try ...t"The lock continues to flash red."Looks like the ice and the jolt messed up the magnetic strip on thekey."He looks me up and down one more time and says, "I do not want to makeyou late for your date. I know the front desk clerk and I will run downand get a replacement card key."Before I could say anything he leaves. I set the ice bucket down. Why to be amazed to that?Parul: You seem to be serious kind of and in last 2 months you never shared anything with me, never joined in lunch and so so.Me: Good Night. Will talk in morning.And then I went to sleep. Though I went to sleep but a somewhere I was also waiting for Parul’s reply and after 15 minutes I again slept. Woke up at 8 and the first thing I did was to check my cell but there no reply.I went to my work place, met Parul there. I could see she was still feeling sleepy to which I. Diane drove us to a wonderful restaurant, saying that she was going to put the whole dinner on her expense account, since we will be discussing Navy and newspaper business for a while. Dinner was amazing! Drinks before, Mike and I had a wonderful steak, cooked to perfection. The girls went for seafood, with all the trimmings. More drinks after dinner and lots of chatting about everything. When we left, Diane dropped Mike and Shirley off at her condo, then headed to hers a short distance. On many occasions when she went clothes shopping for something, my motherwould always lose me on some part of the shop, but she knew where I wouldbe, she would always find me looking in the girls section of clothes orshoes in the store.Every time she would say, "John, what are you doing in the girls sectionlooking through the clothes and shoes?"I would always say, "I was just bored, that's all."Mum would just mumble, muttering about, "It just a phase you are goingthrough, come along now."At.