My mom needed me to get some clothes for a trip we had to take but she had no time to shop with me. In our small town we had a department store that c...rried some clothes. There were three ladys that worked there and had for as long as I could remember. My mom had called down there and talked to Mary who said she would meet me before the store opened and help me get the clothes I needed. I met Mary the next day 2 hours before the store was to open. Mary was an older woman, older than my mom. ”“Thank you, Ma’am,” replied Matt with a smile that was as appreciative of her sentiments as it was of the vision that she cast there standing in front of house unashamed by her own nudity. “I appreciate it.”“‘Ma’am’?” Midge asked with one raised eyebrow and a smile. “So, it’s ‘Ma’am’ now? As Jan said to you earlier; don’t you love me anymore, Matt?”All three of them chuckled at this and Matt gave Midge a mock salute with his right hand and said, “And just as I told Jan. ‘I love you just as. ..”“Tom!”An expression of frustration came over Delia’s face, “Okay then; if you insist. Captain Tom. We are here on vacation with the children, nothing more, and Bill suggested that we have a nice fun day out sailing, that’s all! Honestly, it is just an unfortunate coincidence that we happened to charter your boat. We had no idea that this was your sailboat ... or, that you were even in this part of the world. Everyone has been looking for you for years!”“Yacht!” I corrected her.“Very well. Into agony. As if I wason fire from the bottoms of my feet to the hair on my head, nothing but aburning pain so intense it consumed my world. After a while it receded abit, then it surged back more painful than before. Wave after wave ofagony, while in the background I can still here Elle Driver whistlingthat creepy song.Eventually, an eternity later, the pain recedes and I feel myself fallingaway into a darkness that seems so peaceful. Dragging me down untilblissful release swallows up.