They eyed me suspiciously as I walked by them and entered the store. When I told the man inside what I wanted, he directed me to talk with the men out...ide. They worked at Fort John.“Good afternoon, gentlemen,” I said politely when I got back outside.The men all laughed, with one of them replying, “I don’t see no one here but the six of us, and we surely don’t qualify as gentlemen.”“I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt,” I riposted. “I asked the man inside if he could suggest places. Taking her underwear and wiping her face off, she very carefully slipped them on her body. Proceeding to put the rest of her clothes on she looked down at her watch seeing that is was 6:45 in the evening. Beginning to make herself go crazy about what excuse she could come up with she started finally walking down the street. Living on three streets away, she decided when she got home she would say she was helping a friend study for an exam and that’s why she is so late. Feeling nervous,. A blue saloon pulled up outside the cinema and the boy looked at his phone before turning towards the car. The driver tapped impatiently on the steering wheel as she waited, windows wound down and blaring music into the night air. Disentangling himself from the cinema girl, the boy gave her a quick peck on the cheek before climbing into the passenger seat of the car and leaning over to give the driver a long kiss on the mouth. The car pulled away with a screech of its tires and the girl seemed. Barb wanted to make a bee line for the shower but Ray was not going to have skunk juice in his newly remodeled home. So he got her to sit there as people brought bucket after bucket of soapy water to her. She had three people with wash clothes scrubbing her from head to toe as she sat there limp. People were gathering around Barb to console her but the smell drove them away to a safe distance where they made their polite comments about how ?it’s going to be alright? and ‘it’s not so bad’ as.