" I said if it's not resolved to our satisfaction." I suppose that means getting my head kicked in, does it?" No, I don't want any violence. No one is...going to hit or kick you."I signed the forms. She took them and put them in the safe."Now, there are going to be some changes around here. You will go out toyour computer and order the following items and pay for them with yourcredit or charge card. Make sure you get the sizes correct or you'll bewasting your own money. Then come back to me, you. It was now obvious the meat was expanding in my belly. I stopped eating at this horrid thought and Gretchen arrived again. ‘SIR!’ he said and it was at such a volume it made me jump in my seat. ‘Are you done now!?’ ‘Nono …’ I said quietly, and then with great exaggeration cut into the contract slicing it and eating some of the rice-paper along with a bit of the remaining meat. ‘Hmm …’ Gretchen said melodiously as if what I was doing was the correct thing, and then went back to the group sitting. The shiny receiver hung on the side of the box ... I was too little to reach the telephone, but used to listen with fascination when my mother talked to it.Then I discovered that somewhere inside the wonderful device lived an amazing person. Her name was “Information Please” and there was nothing she did not know. Information Please could supply anyone’s number and the correct time.My personal experience with the genie-in-a-bottle came one day while my mother was visiting a neighbor. Amusing. I remember one time she asked about my sex life, and I told her it was pretty normal and she said she meant other than my husband. I was kind of shocked. When I told her that Bryan was the only guy I'd ever been with, she just sort of made this face that said I was so not cool. "Frigid?" she said with a laugh that I knew was meant to disguise her utter disdain for me. She reminded me so much of all the popular girls I remember from high school who would be friends to your face and just cut you.