Connie was interested. She called her mother and told her she was not going to church with her that Sunday.Her Mom must have given her some static, af...er several "I know" and "I guess so" replies on Conie's part she finally broke off the call by saying that she knew all that but that she still was not going to church with her this time.David told Connie to dress in jeans and that pair of slip on boots she had bought for hiking. He told her to bring a bathing suit and a towel.While driving out. What can you buy today for $3,000? Motorcycles cost more. Gees, the Temper-Pedic mattress that I just bought cost more than one and a half times that. Those were the days of cheap gasoline. I remember filling up my 26 1/2 gallon tank for less than ten bucks and I didn’t have to get out of the car to pump my own gas. ‘That will be $9.75.’ ‘Did you check my oil?’ ‘Yeah, you’re full.’ ‘Did you clean my windshield?’ ‘I did when while you were talking to your friends.’ ‘Did you put air in all four. But I didn’t really know him very well. You’re such a quiet, self-assured young man, Jerry. I have high hopes for you. But I needed someone else to have an opinion about you before I proposed you two as a couple to the group. Mr. Storm, as it turns out, was already considering you. You really impressed him with your maturity and your demeanor. He also mentioned an incident in which you stopped a couple of bullies from picking on a smaller kid who you didn’t even know. That really impressed him!. “A complete superdreadnought group,” Ox said slowly.“Affirmative, Captain. The superdread is the Peacekeeper according to the IFF telemetry. It’s being escorted by two cruisers, four destroyers, and two anti-stealth platforms.”“That’s a lot of torkin firepower,” Ox said.“Isn’t that kind of overkill for little old us?” asked Phlegm. “After all, we’re just a ninety-nine. A destroyer alone could outrun us and then hammer us into space dust without even trying.”“It does seem a bit excessive.