If you wait another eight years before coming back I'll be gone by then for sure," he said."I'm going to drop Mandy and my daughter off to visit my mo... and dad," I said. "They haven't seen her since they were in Chicago to spend Christmas with us. Where would you like to meet?" Mulligan's" he said. "Thanks." I just nodded again.The woman my daughter thought was a witch has been listening to the entire exchange. She turns to leave after another lingering glance at me. I'm sure she'll be there. His report chilled me through and through. '...Punks broke, ain't got a cent...' The two largest stepped up and said '...that's too bad, you've got to come up with something to make us happy. And do it really, really quick...' I did not have to use my imagination to now what they wanted, both of them was stroking their penis through their pants leg. I muttered '...look fellows, I ain't no punk you've got to let me go, they gonna have head count in a little while and I'll be missed. The cops. She felt relieved; the man did live there.“I think he’s down at the VFW clubhouse. Straight west down the boulevard,” he said. He had me call him a cab to take him there earlier,” said the kid.“Thank you, you’ve been a big help,” she said.****The VFW clubhouse the kid had called it. Well, she guessed, a place where virtually every man jack customer in the place had something in common qualified as a clubhouse.The clubhouse was large. She’d seen VFW and American Legion bar and grills before, but. While they had managed to put up a valiant defense, the western nations were plagued by innumerable crisis and like dominos entire countries completely collapsed one by one, being occupied by the ESF. In the chaos countless national treasures were lost or destroyed, entire cultures and beliefs were replaced or lost, roving bands of criminals and militias had taken swaths of land for themselves, it could only be described as the second dark age, though this did last long. Once sufficiently.