" Shestuck her tongue out."And so it is," replied Momma Gina. "Erika I just happen to have thatone with me." She reached into her purse and took out a...small plasticbottle. When she unscrewed the lid the scent of alcohol assaulted ournose. She went to the rest room and rinsed it off. Then handed it tome."Now Kittens who has a pierced tongue already?" I asked. All threestuck out their tongues. Hope just had the hole, Colene had a simplebar bell. And Samantha had a medium one."Samantha, Colene,. Thomas joined the bus soon and sat next to Bob as usual. They were talking but I had no idea about what, then Thomas turned his head around and looked at me. All I could was smile a bit back.It was the following week when travelling home, on the 5pm bus, I saw Bob was on it and as I approached him he said “hello again, I hope your water bottle is secure today?, I answered saying “yes” and giggled a bit.He said “why don’t you sit here next to the window for a change?” I stammered a bit, started. I needed a client base. As the amount of my customers grows, Inotice I am spending more and more time in the office. Between thephone calls soliciting new business, the calls arranging the ordersand all the paperwork that went with it, I realize it is time to getsome help. Hiring a secretary to handle all the paperwork is just whatI need. This would allow me to concentrate on my customers as well ascontacting new ones.After placing an ad in the paper, that following week I beginreceiving phone. ..” A half second later, it dawned on him that his crude joke might very well not be received as a joke.“Oh, shit,” he mumbled, then very earnestly, “Look, Jasmine, I’m truly sorry. I used to run with trash and that’s something we used to say sometimes when we saw a sexy woman. Oh, shit. I just...” and he wound down.But instead of being furious as he expected, Jasmine giggled. “You’ve been too long without a woman if you even think things like that.”“I guess my mouth and the people I associated.