As I left the men's room, I noticed that the five female pledges wereall huddled at the corner of the bar talking to the barmaid. My guesswas that the... were excited about the bet that had just been made. Iordered another beer for Melanie and myself, and we watched as ourseconds busily laid out the rules. After about thirty minutes they werefinished. Cheryl looked great too. She was the group's cosmetologist,and she had a motor home that she brought to the festivals. She soldspecialty cosmetics. Maybe 10 minutes later, she and I had entered in our laptops answers to a slew of somewhat personal questions, and she was walking towards one of the donor stations."Let him be next to me when I give," she said to the nurse, and, realizing I was the "him", I said to my nurse, "Is that okay?" It was, so I got on the cot next to her."They had to take my pulse twice," she admitted, "the first time it was a bit too high.And my blood pressure, it was 120 something." I would almost kill to have blood. Teaching me might give her some experience. So she asked me to come to her house on Sunday. I went to her house. I rang the door bell and a beautiful lady opened the door. She was wearing a sleeveless top with jeans shorts. I told her that the head master had asked me to come. She smiled and said,” So you are the lad who needs my help! Come in.” as I came in she shut the door. I looked around the room. It was very neat and wonderfully decorated Then she told,” What are you looking around.. ”“Hang on a sec! Alex and Sam know you. And they know you’re married. And they didn’t blink at you being here with me?”“I said you were a friend and they believed me. And Jessica knows I’m here. So does Kara. The three of us will be here on Sunday. Do you think I’d have brought you here if I was worried about what somebody might think?”“No, I guess not.”Alex brought the first course, which was French onion soup, though I was sure there was no bread in mine. As we ate, I discovered I was.