" In the basement?" Mom looked horrified."Mom," I interjected, "it's the kind of basement with wall-to-wall carpet-- the expensive kind. The t.v. down...there makes the one we're watching look like a portable. They have genuine leather sofas, plural, down there." How do you know all that?" Dad asked genuinely puzzled."Um, um, I was down there a couple times in the early summer." Just thinking about the leather sofas got me blushing.Mom ran through her mental calendar. "Oh, right, so that was it.. That night I was online at the designated time. He was not there, so I put it aside and figured there was nothing lost. A while later he was there apologizing for being late. I was impressed that someone would bother explaining to a complete stranger, and I really wasn’t all that disappointed since I didn’t even know him. Our chat that night lingered on until well after we should have went to our beds. We were so comfortable talking about anything and everything that we agreed to meet for lunch. “The men know to keep down until they hear the bugle?” David asked.“They know David.”The two of them had decided to keep the camouflaged rifle pits and machine gun posts secret until the enemy committed his forces in strength. The four-man outpost dugout would receive all of the enemy’s attention for the moment. As the light grew stronger David, using his binoculars, could make out the six small artillery pieces lined up on top of the bank on the far side of the river. He knew the Havildar who. I will monitor you.The first two nights it was a waste of everyone's time. I parked the pickup across the street from the project. I was amazed that Jerrod didn't just jerk some smart ass teenager up and pound them. I decided right there that the security business was not for me.On night three Jerrod got in the middle of a husband and wife trading blows. The husband wasn't beating the wife, the were standing toe to toe trading blows. Neither one of them was scoring the knockout punch.The.