‘Clean glass, clean food, clean room, and stay out of our business.’ ‘Yes sir,’ the barkeep said without looking at me, abandoning me to fate,...and took the dirty beer away to clean a glass with a new rag. As the beer poured he put the gold bar into a lockbox already brimming with the night’s take. ‘I said I ain’t fucking you.’ It was Raymond talking now. I’d lived his life five hundred years ago and he’d been a rover like me, though he’d made his money fighting. I’d been big and burly with a. " We turned to look at each other."Why'd they have to cancel the game?" I moaned.Robbie smiled. Somehow that made it a little better. "Tony, we've got three inches of snow. There's supposed to be twice that in the next few hours. Gates Middle is a long way away. You don't want them risking their lives just so you can play football do you?"We looked at each other and Robbie waited about fifteen seconds before adding, "Well?" I'm thinking about it," I grumbled."Tony!" I flinched involuntarily and. With that we left for home.About an hour later we were home and just getting ready for bed when there was a knock at the door. Here we go I thought, this could be very interesting…“Hello Tony, what can I do for you my friend?” I said. “Sorry to bother you at home, but your wife left her purse at the restaurant so I wanted to give it to her straight away” I bet you did you dirty bastard I thought! “Thank you Tony that’s most kind, let me just get Karen” As I went upstairs Karen was pulling a. To tell the truth, before I met Dave, I was kind of a slut. But now it was ten years later and all of my once steady college friends had caught up to me in wildness and left me behind.When I compared my life to theirs, mine seemed dull. I mean I love my kids and I truly love Dave, but there are times when I wish I'd met him later rather than sooner. There are times when I also wish that we'd waited before having our kids.And I know that lots of you are thinking that since my kids are in school,.