“I mean it’s not a big deal,” I said, digging myself deeper into a hole that threatened to keep me out of hers.“Try again,” she said with a ...light laugh.“Okay, I asked you out,” I said. “I wanted to get to know you a bit.”“Because… ?”“Because I like you,” I said uncomfortably. “I find you interesting.”“Interesting?” she pursued. “In what way?”“God,” I said, exasperated, trying to get the conversation back onto a stable path. “You’re a nice woman.”“Why shouldn’t I be?” she said.“Okay,” I said.. The Canucks tried hard, but didn’t score. In the last minute of the game, they got the puck, advanced and a teammate passed to Jeff, who slipped by the last defenders except the goalie and skated right toward Cindi’s section, setting up his shot. “Go, Jeff, go,” screamed Cindi, bouncing off her feet, waving the stick frantically, her red-brown hair haloing her head. So intent was her gaze, she noticed Jeff’s head move to one side slightly. He shot…and missed. The game was soon over without. Are you not?”“What the hell is going on here?”As he lay down on the ground, Mom kicked him right in the balls. He just rolled up to a little ball. He felt that one.“Now listen, Johnny...or should I just call you stalker, or r****t?!”He started to get some air again after his hit.“Where you know my name from?”“That does not matter for now! Why did you just go inside my home?”“Look, I could not help myself. My urge was too big...seeing a little sissy girl like that! She was teasing me!”She looked. He read the engine hours meters and scribbled the readings on his palm.If something breaks at eighteen thousand feet it's damn hard to fix. He might be right seat this go-round but it was a real bitch to buy a new one of something they quit making thirty five years ago.So, in military parlance, they 'kicked the tires and lit the fires' and got the flock outta there. Bill was actually pretty amazed he knew what each gauge and switch was named, but then, he'd never just dropped in the seat,.