Should we ask her to join us?" Yes," replied Rusty, Sally and Terry."Sally, Terry, you heard me?" I'm not sure how to answer that," replied Sally. "It...wasn't... , no that's not right, it was different than spoken words." Joyce, come join us," said Sarah and Rusty as they smiled.Sarah and her friends carefully watched Joyce in their peripheral vision to see what she would do. Sarah then repeated their telepathic call twice more. She had just about decided to wave her over when Joyce started. ." It's fine dear, I don't care if you see me in the shower," she laughed. "I bought some new conditioner and left it in the kitchen. Would you mind getting it for me?"I collected myself. Of course, she needs the conditioner. No big deal."Sure mom, yeah, I'll um..." I stopped talking, realizing how weird I sounded. I ran downstairs, trying to chill the fuck out, returning in a few seconds with the bottle of conditioner. I stopped at the doorway, feeling weird about coming in cuz I was so hella. And that’s exactly how Bubba and Earl, ‘maintenance men Extraordinaire’ found me ... half-naked with part of me dangling, mashed between two glass plates!After exchanging a polite Hi, how’s it going type greeting, Bubba (or possibly Earl) asked, to my utter disbelief, if I knew the power was off. Trying to disguise my hysteria, I replied with as much calmness as possible, “Uh, yes, I did but thanks anyway.” “OK, you take care now” Bubba (or Earl) replied and waved good-bye as though I’d been. Douglas tried to explain to his wife. "Yes we do!" Sam said. "No, you don't," the city raised fellow assured at the bald-headed, mustached man dressed in the perfect rural image of a general store proprietor, complete with the slacks, simple white apron and a striped shirt with sleeve garters. "Yes, we do," the man tried to explain to the foreigner. "You see, since we don't keep TV time, they won't let us receive any program that's not black and white." "That makes no sense!" Mr. Douglas said,.