"Hello, Bobby," he said and leaned into the phone so I couldn't hear; he'd already turned the volume on the speaker down to the point where all I coul... normally catch were stray words."Dad?" I asked quizzically and he nodded."Yes, we're on our way now," he spoke. "Of course, quite a few actually and I'm sure I can get your address from her." He listened for a while, completely ignoring me as he drove down the long drive, nodding and murmuring agreements. "Yes, sir, I'll make sure she sends you. I awoke to her anguish, rousing Robert and Hannah as well, who convinced me that there was no safe way to untangle him from even a human female. It was cruel to Guido, full of real risk of penile injury.“Sorry, Miriam, but you’re gonna have to wait poor Guido out and let him finish naturally. I warned you about flirting with dogs, didn’t I? Dogs don’t grasp consent or lack thereof, and if they’re that horny, they can and will attempt to mate with even humans. Guido’s just being a literal. Saddened because I knew her as a kid. Knew herwhen she was him, actually, because they lived next door to us in thedreadful Park Hill estate in Sheffield. This estate of apartments -'flats' in British English - was an example of brutal modernistarchitecture, built to replace a bombed-out area (thanks, Luftwaffe)and by the 1980s, many of the flats were occupied by desperately poor,degenerate, drug and alcohol troubled, dysfunctional families who madelife hell for neighbours who were simply poor,. She couldn't make up her mind what she wanted to call it yet.Tom said that, with another day of training, he felt Tim and Bob could probably begin working on their own. I told him that it might take longer with Tim, but I was going to work with him a little to show him how to use a square to get the proper angles.Al said he was doing really well, as he was able to cut multiple pieces of sheet metal at a time with the new laser-cutting device we had ordered from Snap-On. He said this was saving.