Johnny turned as he heard her coming back to the living room. His eyes went wide, and part of him wished he had one of the bottles of beer in his han... so he could drink it straight down and then smash the bottle over his own head. Doris stood just inside the living room, a bottle of Budweiser in each hand, hands that were now covered by fringed gloves. Something more comfortable turned out to be the gloves, a cowboy hat, a pair of boots, a leather vest opened all the way up the front, and a. Kathy groaned to herself, “Why me?!?” She looked to see if either of the other salesgirls were free, but no such luck, they were both still showing shoes to the two ladies still seated in the try on chairs. Kathy moved towards the fiftyish lady who was by now looking at a display of high healed evening shoes and asked, “May I help you ma’am?” “Yes,” she replied, “I’m looking for a pair of black patent leather pumps, something like these,. She was threatening again just before I left for Hawaii, so I took the thing with me. I promise to not be careless with the gun again. That could very easily have been misunderstood. Let me give you some cards for some free shows.” He gave each of us two passes for a theater in Hollywood.None of us had the heart to tell him that we were going to be on our way to Florida in minutes.We refueled and Janet and I did an exterior check. Sheena and Fran went to the private aircraft operations building. ‘Why would you say that?’ ‘Because Jodi’s my friend and I don’t want her hurt.’ ‘I’m not going to hurt her Amber.’ ‘You have to say that though don’t you? You’d hardly tell me that you were going to hurt her, would you? And besides, I know that you’re too nice to hurt her deliberately, but Dave…it’s gotta end badly.’ ‘Why? Because I’m twice her age? Because I have kids? Why the fuck does it have to end badly?’ My voice rose a little as I spoke and the elderly duo at the table next to me looked.