They didn’t speak for a while until she turned to him and said that if he wanted, he could believe that her grandmother was slipping a few gears. Ca...e shook his head, ‘I don’t think that’s what I saw, but I know that you’re feeling very uncomfortable now, so I don’t want to talk about it. I’d much rather go for a coffee.’ She nodded her thanks and took his hand to hold after he started the truck and put it into gear. At the drive-through window, Rufus was a huge hit as he stuck his head out at. "I-iyaa! Aha... haaa..." I clenched my teeth and tried to form words."I'm... okay... uh, just cramps..."The woman on the other side of the door hesitated. "Are... you sure youshould be at the pool like that?"The suggestion that I might be menstruating somehow seemed moreembarrassing than getting fingered by my best friend as I currently was."N-no! Not like that! Just... uh... ate something that's... not agreeingwith me. I'll be okay, thanks though."The woman did not respond at first, she was. Mother suggested I find a shipping concern or a bank that managed to stay in business through the 'coming unpleasantness' ... something still in operation in 1975.Not as easy as you might think, shipping concerns fail, the name picked up again years after. Banks failed by the hundreds in the 'Crash of '29, ' picking one that succeeded in the surviving was difficult. I thought about the most trusted names in shipping, Wells Fargo. How about banking? Bank America.Ah, Brinks! They have a branch in. He told us he intended going to Japan with the occupation forces, and wanted us to go with him. He even offered us Sergeant’s stripes, but he had Buckley’s. We had had enough, and wanted only to go home.At the end of December 1945, I was seconded to the 4th Australian Base to assist with their clearing operations. Our Roman Catholic Bishop - or maybe he was Church of England - had moved in and was given a group of huts. He had been given a few vehicles, and I took him truckloads of wheels,.