I dialed the restaurant,and the hostess said, "Yes sir, we have a table for three. It'll beready when you get here!" Three?" That's what your wife req...ested. But if it's just two, we'll justremove a chair," she said. I thanked her and hung up.I turned to Laney. "They must have misunderstood you. They said we havea table for three," I said.Laney put her hand over her mouth as if she had forgotten something."Oh, I didn't tell you, did I? I was talking to a friend today, andwe're going to have a. Amy, why don't you come sit by me so we can have some girl talk." Ariel invited her.Suddenly I was left out. Probably for the best. The three women immersed into their own conversation. The girls were intently listening to Ariel as she was telling them something. They all laughed and seemed be hitting it off quite well.I excused myself to go to the restroom. When I returned, Ariel was gone. The two girls excitedly began telling me what had transpired in their talk with the sexy Ariel."Wow, what. They are dropped off in the front of the zoo. An older man is naked in the front of the zoo. He has gray body hair and a beard. He looks like he might have once been a college professor. “Hi, I am your guide, would you like me to escort you into the Zoo. I will be happy to answer any questions you may have about our animals,” he says.“No, I don’t think so,” Jane says. The guide is an augment. He has the same dead-eyes of the tram girl. His pre-programmed warm greeting is simply an automated. He was going to tell George about how he had given Roxie a chance, despite all the times she’d been with his brother. And there was her less-than-perfect reputation that he’d overlooked, not to mention the car loan that he’d cosigned.George began talking again before Cal could get a word out.“I just like to see people get all the chances they can get—until they make good. Sometimes they don’t make good, no matter how many chances they get. But, a lot of times they do.”“And you think that Roxie.