If I blew up one of their shipments, it was just business. If wasn't good for anyone, but it had always been done like that,Last year had been my firs... year out there with new products. Since there wasn't any competition I had gotten a lot of warnings but there was nothing to replace my stuff. I expected there to be other projects like mine this year. So there might be placement issues. It could get messy even though I didn't want it to.I started by cleaning my mixing vats. They had been. Today he is still alive and we are great close friends, but even he never knew how that scene or vision, was replayed over and over in my young developing mind, as I went futher with the same story as I got older, fantisizing I got into the bed with him, first face up then face down, relieving him then myself, as my vision rolled-on and I came.When living in Africa as a fifteen year old during Summer vacation, with another girlfriend, she invited me to her bedroom one hot afternoon and called. "Yeah, I saw that. City Surveyors don't give a damn where they putthose flags. Don't worry, man. We can work around them when we getthere. No problem. We'll be out of here before you know it."The man looks relieved. "That's great. We got a funeral coming in lessthan an hour."Ridgeway makes a show of counting the remaining flags. "We'll step onit and be done by then. That okay with you?" That'd be fucking great!" he says, smiling broadly. Ridgeway fires upthe drill, waves at the guy and returns. He was more circumspect with the distribution of long rifles because he understood how dangerous that could be to all settlers in the hands of irate Indians after some encroachment on their territory, no matter how innocent or well-meaning.I had almost a full squad with him but they were all innocuous looking fellows with an air of obedience to the rule of a far distance King. The British soldiers manning the crossroads checkpoints were not interested in any of them and had eyes only for the.