Has one of you a car?"As clothes were restored and bags quickly filled with essentials, the enormity of the situation hit home for Joel - he was saved... the death sentence miraculously deferred. "Take the girls first," suggested Jackie, handing him a set of car keys. "I'll call the police and deal with things out here. Go with Joel," assured Jackie, the girls seemingly reluctant.---The following morning Joel awoke, wondering at first whether it had all been some incredible dream, the notion. I looked at the truck, it was huge and really high up. I stepped up into the truck and got settled in the seat and waited for him to get into the truck. Once he got in the truck we were off and running, talking all the way to the party. We get to the party and I introduce him to my friends, there are not a whole lot there but enough. I put my stuff down and then went behind the bar to smoke a little weed, figured it would make me feel a little less nervous. I could see him looking at me so I. I awoke refreshed and surprisingly confident. I had a rough plan of action and I had a sense of direction.Yes, I will no longer be Howard Carver, obliging husband, and as some might think, eunuch. It's a role that I intended to correct. I think Edie is in for a big surprise when she learns she has a different husband than she thought she had. No longer a pushover. I will use my voice to make myself clearly understood. I will dominate from now on. It will be part of my new persona.I made myself. “Of course not,” she said. “You’re a guy. Guys do that. Everybody knows that.”“Oh.” I felt a little let down that I’d been classified as just any old generic guy.“We can’t talk about this anymore right now,” she said. “There are too many kids around.”“Right,” I said.Apparently we couldn’t talk about anything, because she didn’t say another word until we got to school.Oddly enough, that short, little conversation was enough to release some of the tension that had entered our relationship. It.