"We're not supposed to go over there without permission," Mary said.I was about to tell her to get some perspective, but then I thought better of it. ...OK, I'll get permission." I gave her the map. "Hang on to that. You can show it to Mom and Dad if I don't get home on time." I put my coat on and carefully wound the string of the pointer onto the pencil and gently put it in a coat pocket.I picked up my guitar. "You go up first and turn into the kitchen so that you're mostly blocking the view as. “ P-p-p-please ma’am, my uh. Oh shit, Lady, LADY, yeah. Please, Lady, I didn’t know you were coming. I had no time to prepare. This uh,., this isn’t what it looks like...”SLAP! A firm slap prevented him from further mumbling or manufacturing any more excuses. It was time for the Lady to get to work. “After what I had heard about your recent behavior, I did not WANT you to have any extra time to prepare. In fact, it is now painfully clear to me that giving you time to prepare before my previous. Now her legs were fastened down, attention was paid to the top half. The buttons on the front of her blouse were undone, carefully, then one arm was unshackled, and that sleeve pulled off her arm. Then she felt the clasp of her bra being undone, and pulled forward and off that arm. The exercise was repeated with the other arm, and she found herself secured naked and spread-eagled on the floor of a van, traveling she knew not where. Finally, the tape covering her mouth was ripped off. “Sure, Rob, I’m only doing some repairs in my shop this morning, do you want me to bring it right over?”“No, I’ll come get it late afternoon, then I can spend some time with both of you.”“We’ll be looking forward to seeing you. We’ll both be here after four; I need to drop off a couple of machines I’ve fixed back to their owners around two.”I went and confirmed to my boss that I did indeed need to take a couple of personal days to sort out an urgent family problem, got the nod, thanked him, and.