"Just think of it. For eighteen generations, parents have helped their children start businesses. Members of the family have helped groom heirs to the...r business empires. If another older member of the family had been in the pickle business, we would have offered you a position with that company, with the understanding that you would take it over. The elder would have helped you introduce the new pickle product or even spin off a subsidiary. It would have been a cooperative effort rather than a. Even John and Janet were looking across."Of all the days, he decided to ignore me now," sighed Linda.The music started once more and everyone decided to take to a bit moredancing. Kevin was still keeping away from Linda, much to her annoyance.After a while, he glanced over and saw the dirty look she was givinghim. He looked worried sick. After another talk with his parents, heheaded towards where the DJ was playing the music."Now what is he up to?" asked Kelly as Kevin walked over to the. "Scooter, I don't know if I was more ashamed of how I'd felt most of the way through the wedding trip, especially the first half, or ashamed to have to ask Randy to let me go again," she sighed after she'd recapped what had happened after Scooter, Team 3, and many of the hike-ins had headed up the Bass Trail. "The hell of it was that I knew he was going to feel hurt either way. I mean, I never thought he'd fly off the handle or something, but you could tell he was hurt. We worked out the deal. It was over way too quickly. Out of breath, we both collapsed on the bed. I was thinking that Ellen acted just like her mother. She looked at me and said, "I needed that. Mom will still be gone for a few weeks and we are going to play the same games you play with her. I have been watching all these years. I hope you can handle it." That's all I needed to hear. I nodded and started thinking about getting a shower. At that point, I started to wonder what I had just gotten into. It was the first.