"You mean that guys at the restaurant grab your ass?" Don asked Marge."Once in a while we get a customer that gets a little fresh and grabs or pats my...bottom," Marge said. "I just walk away and smile. If I were to make a scene I would get fired or no tip. It's really no big deal Don, it's not like I'm going to bed with the jerks." You too?" Marc said to his wife."Yes Marc, me too," Anne replied. "Why, don't you think I have a nice ass?" You have a great ass Anne," Marc chuckled. "I'm just not. For a change, nobody was there. I checked the coffee pot and seeing that it was empty, I started some.That done, I made myself some oat meal while the coffee was brewing. I got done with that about the same time the coffee was done so I cleaned up my mess and took Uncle Dar a cup.That done, I went to my room to watch some t.v. for awhile. I watched a few shows, but couldn't find much on really worth watching so I went back out to the main room. Ellen and Nancy were gone now so I went to my. "I find myself very at ease with you, and this is usually followed by my saying things which sound stupid or ignorant." She nodded and listened. "I've gotten the impression that when I say something which comes across as stupid, people don't call me on it. They seem to just stay silent and then stop talking to me." I looked at her, trying to gauge her reaction.She was leaning forward and looking sympathetically at me. She encouraged me when she said, "I'm intrigued. What's an example of. Was that fair? Well, they knew the law and, if they were worthy, the new political system was flexible enough to allow the cream to rise and the dross to sink, given time and a reasonable amount of effort.Within a terran-year of the launch of the New Empire, every single system had surrendered with barely a couple of hundred planets or moons that held out under siege by a few madmen who couldn’t accept what was happening, while most of the resistance was by true republics who did not want to.