Chapter 25: IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE

All that was needed was a credible testimonial. Professor Moore’s passionate lengthy wailing ululations, thrice in sequence over a four hours duration, was an endorsement unlikely to be ignored. She could be heard clearly throughout the Sci-Fi sorority house. The sisters decided individually and unanimously, they wanted some of what the professor was having. Me! It pays to advertise.

It’s six thirty pm. Mimi, Angelique, Yvonne, Meredith, and Melody are all wearing babydoll nighties, already prepared for an early bedtime. Exams are exhausting and all had exams earlier in the day.

My own day was not a least whit less stressful. Up at five, on the road by five-thirty, two hours of driving later, arriving home at seven-thirty. Preparation and eating of breakfast required forty-five minutes. A shower, change of clothes and two mile trip to ‘NOW’ had me walking in the truck-stops main doors at eight-thirty am sharp.

Greetings, introductions over coffee and Danish, then an orientation session explaining the paperwork we are about to sign, took a half hour. Pen was put to signature lines promptly at nine am, but the signing of so many documents by so many officials wasn’t accomplished in a mere moment of time. Other than me, no one else is pressed for time and they’re perversely taking their own sweet time about getting the paperwork finished. Done! Finally. Got to go, bye.