A couple of us stumbled off the dance floor, back to the table to grab our drinks. While we enjoyed them, one of the guys asked my friend and I if we ...anted to come hang out with them for a little while longer. My friend quickly accepted the offer because she had been all over one of the guys out on the dance floor. Not wanting to be the party pooper, I also agreed to go hang out. Had I been sober, I probably wouldn't have gone but being drunk, I wasn't really thinking straight. I figured I. Jackie knew she had won as soon as she saw how I was, or perhaps oneshould say was not, dressed. We sat at a table next a wall in an alcove. Jackie motioned for me to sitbetween the two girls (they were no more than eighteen I'd swear). The girlsand I sat with our backs to the wall. Jackie sat opposite us. I tried to smile at Jackie. But that was not the way that things were now.There was no answering smile. The public house was busy. Many more were drinkingoutside. The sun was still shining.. , I won’t bore you with too many details but the work had been planned to take place over a 4 week period, so the company had booked me into a hotel that was predominantly tourist, this hotel was part of a vast complex of hotels and leisure facility’s in a park, there were about 5 hotels all linked by tiny roads, little or no traffic was allowed In the park and the transport around was supplied by 6 tractors done up with steam engine faces etc. like “Thomas the tank engine” these vehicles. For three bucks I sat in on a fascinating ninety minute presentation of the man whose ideas were completely new to me. But they were a revelation. I hung onto the speaker's every word, taking copious notes in the binder I'd bought in the center's book store.I left the lecture in a state of shock. Camus wasn't the happiest thinker around in those days, but he made a lot more sense than the heroic optimism being forced down my throat by parents and the likes of Boy's Life magazine. The speaker.