“This card drives relays ninety-one to a hundred in cabinet FID410,” she said. “I think we need to check the relays first.”Jim looked at her, ...erplexed, “But it’s the card that is not working.”“True, but in this case, the damaged card is a symptom of the fault, it’s not the cause,” she explained.“So, something else caused the little lights to stop working on the card,” said Jim.“Spot on, my little Pud,” Lee replied. She giggled when Jim looked down to his feet, which was a long way down, then. He lived in another town nearly 100 miles away, but came over at least once a month for a weekend visit. It wasnt like having a full-time father, but it was Uncle Bob who had been there on camping trips, fishing trips and it was he that had first taught Jimmy the basics of football. When it came time for the traditional father-son, birds-and-the-bees talk…..Uncle Bob was there to help Jimmy get his facts straight. Jimmy loved his uncle, but he did wonder why his mother had never found another. I was afraid that she might not only say no, but ridicule me as well. Then the others would pick up on it and tease me even more. And of course my taste only ran to the best-looking short girls, the ones most likely to say no to a short, dumpy-looking (not fat but overweight), four-eyed geek like me. So when I graduated at 16, I’d never had a date, had never even kissed a girl. In college I joined a fraternity during the pledge period of my freshman year in hopes that the extra social. I felt in her touch a certain warmth and deep held passion that she had probably held back for so long and that was bursting to be free. When eventually I left she said, looking quite sad -that it would be a long time before she was me again, because I only cleaned her windows monthly. I sensed her thoughts; “Well at this time of the year come autumn, them thar windows do get very dirty you know so I reckon I ought to come more often.” “But I can’t afford more than a month.” “”Marie!” I replied.