It probably didn’t take more then two minutes, but it really got my heart beating. One night I was coming out of the trash room, I was startled to s...e an older black man, about 30 standing in an open doorway. I froze the minute I saw him. He smiled and asked if I wanted to come inside and smoke a joint. Startled, I mumbled “no not now,” and fled back to my room. I heard him say “stop by sometime cutie, just knock.” My heart was pounding when I made it back to my room. I sat down, wondering what. I would have done it anyway, like helping around the house or checking our (her) car’s tires for air pressure. But to be told I ‘should’ do this rather than suggesting I do it kept on grating. If I didn’t get it done right away, including dropping what ever I was doing and go do her will, then she would tell me I should not forget it, and keep telling me until I couldn’t stand it anymore and gave in for the sake of shutting her mouth temporarily. She was passive in bed at best. She told me. Elaine dived beneath her desk, coweringthere and hoping the police would not be triggerhappy. The sheriff, anoverweight man whose bushy hair and push-broom mustache had turned silverby now, held his gun in trembling hands, his heart still racing afterrunning up the stairs. He hadn't pulled his sidearm in the line of duty in15 years, and didn't feel very confident doing it now, especially with hisapparent opponent a teenage girl. Flanking him were a stout-looking youngerwoman with short red hair. The slow dances did not involve dance lesson material of course, not with the events of recent days. The slow dances required a parental advisory sticker and ice water! Phew! When my Ginny Blossom get her motor revving she lights up a room, and heats it up too! Maybe it was just the beer talking, but towards the end of the evening a guy I didn't know from Adam came up to me and shook my hand and told me he considered me the luckiest sonofabitch he'd ever met. I pulled my reply straight out of.