He seemed to be courteous and atrue gentleman.We had just finished our second glass of wine when the door bell rang.John said to wait in the kitchen w...ile he saw who was at the door. Ifelt very vulnerable sitting in the Barberi kitchen alone!John came into the kitchen, followed by Lisa, the red headed waitressthat I had been with two nights ago. John said, "Carol, look who hascome over early for the party tonight."Lisa's green eyes sparkled as she said, "Surprise!" She bent down tokiss my lips. ” Totally baffled he had no idea what she was plotting.Phil arrived home on the Friday to an empty house, then noticed a note pinned up in the kitchen. It read;Dearest Phil, I am staying at John and Jane’s tonight to prepare your surprise. I will ring you in the around eleven thirty tomorrow, your dinners in the oven it just needs warming. Please save everything you have until tomorrow, I promise it will be worth it. I love you so much, Chardonnay. Santa's in enough trouble without implicating himself in any more shenanigans, if you catch my snow drift. See what I did there? Combining snow and drift? Don't worry, Santa's not quitting his Christmas Eve gig any time soon." So anyway, two weeks later, Santa finally starts feeling better when I get a letter telling me that one of my products, 'The Automatic Vibromatic All In One Sex Tool', was being recalled, not because it didn't work, but because it was considered to be too dangerous. Now. Was it going to eat us? The thought made me want to start screaming again. Fortunately, it looked off toward the eastern portion of the lake and dove beneath it. I was shaking uncontrollably and could not take my eyes from the loch. Had that been real? Was Nessie real? ‘Saints above, your shaking!’ I hardly felt Tilda’s ministrations before I was lifted up by one of the soldiers and placed on a horse. ‘This place is unholy.’ He declared in his deep rumbling voice. ‘We’re leaving.’ I knew,.