’ She smiled. ‘You no want hassle then?’ ‘Yeah, sometimes bar girls can make things more complicated then things should be.’ ‘Ok, you s...ay this corner of bar.’ And she moved me down to a far corner of the bar. Not so far that I couldn’t see the girls doing their thing on the stages, but far enough away so that I wouldn’t attract anyone’s attention. Plus there was a nice breeze that blew into the bar from that corner. I was very cool with this. I nodded my approval to her and raised my beer. " She had tears in her eyes. I immediatelywent over and gave her a big hug. "Mom, what you did for me is justwonderful. I love you so much! Everything will be fine." Now I wascrying too.Looking back from the present on this episode, I'm not surprised abouthow far Mom would go for her family. After all, she came from a culturewhere women treat their husbands and male children like gold, alwaysdoing their best to fulfill their every need and wish. Now I realizethere's both good and bad in that. She shook her head to me when Lee was not looking but I just ignored her.We walked to the truck. Lee opened the passenger door on the truck to let my wife in. She scooted way over close to my side. Lee had a lot of room. My wife was about sitting in my lap. It will be a fun night I thought to myself.Lee and I talked about sports on the drive to the club. Cheryl just rolled her eyes and stayed on my side of the truck.We get to the club. We walk in and go over to a table. Not only we were the. "Red's done some pretty weird stuff today Hank," Leon said, almostfeeling like he was defending his decision to talk to her alone. "I justwant to talk to her a little and try and see what's wrong." Shit man, its not just Red. But yeah, that was one hell of a last day." I know what you mean. Did you kind of see that people were..." Leonstarted then stopped, wondering how he could say it. Hank was going tolaugh, he knew it."... You mean kind of didn't notice her in the locker rooms?" Hankfinished.