. this all contributed to a taxi business that was well known to be safe and well organised place to wait before getting one of the cabs to take you h...me or wherever ! We had a huge amount of regular customers and would say that 90% were on first name terms with us all and that made it a friendly and trusted company. On a pretty standard summer Saturday night I was radio'd back to the office and asked to come upstairs where I was asked by one of the operators if I would take a young lady home. Setting down on the bed next to her he touched her shoulder. "Are you all right?"She threw her arms around him and squeezed as close to him as possible. He just held her for several minutes until she quit crying. "You want to tell me what this is all about?" Oh Gene, I am so sorry about last night. I never meant for it to go that far." She felt him tense up. "Just how far did it go? She told him everything, not leaving out anything from the moment they left the house until he bought her home. The smell of the food set her stomach to growling, and Max and Jim looked at her and laughed. Butch laughed, too, but he was probably only doing so because they were. His face looked like a huge swollen baby's, except for the beard that was sprouting there. He sat at the table and speared the first stack of pancakes for himself. Pete looked annoyed, but Max laughed."Hell, let him have them. He's bigger than we are. He needs more. Besides, there's plenty for everyone." Julie couldn't resist. When I arrived in Manhattan, the doorman came out of the lobby and my Queen Holly stepped out behind him. For Holly, weekends were not a time for casual dress. On that day she was wearing a jacket and skirt, and high heels. This time her shoes were dark purple instead of the earlier white ones. Yet she must have liked white for late spring weather, because she had a white hat rather than the straw one I had seen before.She was fairly tall and she moved gracefully and confidently. Something.