We could not do more as it was a public road with bystanders. With difficulty and after making out like college kids in hiding for 20 minutes, he fina...ly dropped me home. We had to do it in bed and be naked at the soonest.Luckily, my parents were attending a wedding in the city on a weekend and I invited him over at 9 am. He told at his house he had a candidate to interview outside the office and came over. The anticipation was huge and the performance expectation even more huge. I had. Ok, what I really mean is this was small town Iowa and I got roped in to pouring beers, changing out the keg, and making sure the high school k**s didn't get drunk After all, two of their teachers just got married, so not exactly like they could get away with sneaking beers.As the night went on, wife and her group of friends got drunker and louder. My wife decided it woulud be a good idea for me to bring them their rounds of beers so they didn't have to get up for them. Lucky me, right?As. My mom asked me, "Do you think you'll get a chance to enhance your contract since you've done so well since you came up with the Rays?"I frowned and told my mother, "Until this series is in the bag and the trophy is on display, I don't want to talk about anything except winning tomorrow night, Mom. I kind of think it would be bad luck to even talk about it."Mom smiled, patted my arm, and said, "You haven't changed, have you? You are still as single-minded as ever; one goal at a time." She got. I had to run through my little drill of different ways of cooling off in an emergency at home or out and about. It’s a drag. Imagine, it’s 85 degrees and you’re in a traffic jam on a bridge and the car A/C goes out. You are a 50+ year old fat man. Are you willing to dive into the river under the bridge when you’re not sure how deep the water is? Rivers tend to be shallow here. You won’t live long enough to walk off the bridge. Are you willing to punch a good Samaritan who’s trying to keep you.