With rocks and stuff. It’s going to take a while to clear.’ And then her phone rang again. ‘And the road through to Hamberly is also closed,’...she said after a brief conversation. ‘A big slip at Cottley’s Corner.’ ‘I’ve just come from Hamberly. That’s where the cops had their checkpoint. And Cottley’s Corner? Is that where the road does that sharp right-hander? And then there’s a dip? And a narrow bridge?’ The woman nodded. ‘So which way will I need to go when I leave here?’ I asked. ‘Umm … you. A few people were offended and left but most just went about eating and talking and paying no attention. A few of the guys tried to get their wives to follow Linda’s example and a couple removed their tops but none of them got completely nude. When the party started to break up, Linda announced that she was going in the hot tub and anyone could join her but there were no clothes allowed in the tub. Steve & Judy and Joanne & Mike stripped and went in the hot tub with Linda. Linda had Mike to her. “It’s their internal problem; we should not interfere. We should let them solve their own problems”, they said.I touched her feet, just to make her feel better. She suddenly moved her glance from the door and looked at me. I think she saw pity in my eyes mixed with the guilt. A tear rolled out of her eyes. The sensual lips were transformed to an ugly smear of lipstick.I went near her head and caught hold of that tear on her cheek and rubbed it. She blinked; I had never touched her that way. It was through one of these meetings that I learned that Barbara's husband wasn't giving her the satisfaction she needed. This piqued my interest, although having always been faithful to my wife, nothing came of it.A few years later, we had moved away, though we'd stayed in the same town. Barbara had started a traveling practice, and contacted friends offering a special rate in order to get her business off the ground. I'd been having some lingering trouble with my quadriceps, left over from a.