Dave's Story

[iamnobody]

Dave's story

Dave had just come back from his wife Dorcas funeral. She had died 5 days ago in a horrible car wreck that left her body so mangled that there was no viewing held for her. Dave had to look at her remains to identify her, just barely could recognize her. It has been a very hard time for him.

Dave and Dorcas were 35 years old and had been together since they were 15 years old. He never understood how she had been with him. He was the nerdy geek with the glasses and calculator in his pocket. She was the beautiful, most popular girl in the school. Head cheerleader and home coming queen.

They went to the same college and got married right after college at 22 years of age. Dave worked his way up and was now a VP at a big IT company earning over $500,000 a year. Dorcas had been a manager at another company and was making $100,000 a year.

Dave was thinking back over his marriage, how wonderful it had been. They had no children though they had tried over the years and they were both sad every month when she had her cycle.

They each had individual life insurance policies on each other of $5,000,000 with a addition that if it was accidental it paid out 2X for $10,000,000. Plus the company had a $1,000,000 life insurance policy. The company of the big truck that hit her head on paid him several million dollars. Dave had piles of money but he would rather of had his wife.

Dave and Dorcas had attended a big mega church and people there were supportive, bringing food by and talking with him. Even the preacher came by to see him. Dave lost 30 pounds due to his grief over the next few months.

[texican]

Dave had piles of money but he would rather of had his wife.

How truthful this is, iam.

Texican....

[ydderf]

Nice beginning thank you.

[iamnobody]

At the end of 3 months, Dave was starting to feel “normal” again. Losing all that weight, his clothes were hanging on him and he had to buy new clothes.

He had taken a week off of work because he was going to move. The big expensive Condo had been Dorcas dream so Dave had bought it for her. Plus living there was a constant reminder of her every day. He also didn't need all this space, he was no longer having social parties every week. So he would downsize to a smaller, no frills apartment. This move would also save a lot of money. He also was selling his BMW that he had bought to please his wife and her idea of “social standing” because of the money they were earning. Truthfully Dave didn't miss the social life his wife had insisted on.

He had sold the Condo furnished so all he had to move were personal effects and clothing. He had already moved his custom computers built for his personal and business life. Those computers were the fastest and most adbanced that could be had.

[iamnobody]

He had been able to take all his computers in the 1st trip in the older Oldsmobile station wagon he had bought. His wife would of thrown a fit at the old thing but it suited him just fine. It was 10 years old but only had 10,000 miles on it. The 2nd trip was his clothes – business suits, his “social” clothes and a few pairs of casual clothes he only wore around the house when no one else was there.

The 3rd trip would be his late wife's things and would be the last trip. It would also be hard for him. Dorcas had 2 sisters but none of them wanted her “used” clothes, so every thing was going to be dropped off at the Salvation Army. Bracing himself mentally, he headed for her things.

Her purse, or what Dave jokingly considered big enough to be a suit case, was setting on her dresser where he had put it after getting it back from the wrecked car. It had sat there since then for 3 months. He placed it on the king size bed they had shared.

Going to her closet and opening it, he was still amazed at the number of shoes and dresses that she had said she needed. He placed the shoes in contractor trash bags, counting 50 paits of them. They filled 3 bags and he took them out to his car. Then the dresses, skirts, blouses, sweaters and scarves were next. He made many trips carrying them on hangers to his car because they all were expensive and dry clean only. Many were of silk. His car was almost full but he was basically done.

Going back, all that was left was her socks and underwear. He had trash bags ready for them and would throw them in the garbage. The sock drawer was emptied and he pulled her underwear drawer open and started putting them in the trash. Towards the back were underwear he had never seen on her. There were many pairs of silky, skimpy ones from Victoria's Secrets. Dave is puzzled because all he had ever seen on her were the big, no thrills panties that were known as “granny panties”. Pulling them out of the drawer, there were 10 pairs of silky, sexy panties and bras and several garter belts and hose.

He sees a large, thick book in the back of the drawer and he picks it up. It is a diary which he opens and sees that it starts from back when Dorcas was 12 years old. Holding the diary and the underwear, he moves over to the bed and sits down, very puzzled at what he found.

As he sits down, it causes her purse to slide off the bed and spill out onto the floor. An iPad is laying there. He looks in the bag and there is a used pair of sexy underwear along with the normal makeup and hair brushes. WHAT?!?!

He turns the iPad on and it actually works, must have been cushioned inside her purse during the wreck. The latest thing was on the same day as her wreck, in fact shortly before the wreck. It was a message to some man about already missing him and she loved him.

The iPad fell from his numb fingers and he had to pick it up off the carpeted floor. He saw files and opened them to see pics and videos of his wife and different men over a long period of time. He started vomiting and grabbed the trash bag to catch it. Then he vomited more when he realized his face was just inches away from his cheating wife's underwear.

[9idrr]

I'm interested in seein' where this one's goin'.

[texican]

A wife that was not satisfied with her upper class life and had to find more. Sad.

Texican....

[iamnobody]

Dave spent the next 48 hours reading her diary and looking at the pics and videos on her iPad. He got the shock of his life and what he read and saw completely destroyed the illusion of a happy marriage he had. For 48 hours he barely drank any water, ate no food and fell asleep from exhaustion, only to wake up in a few hours and read more.

Her diary started when she was 12 years old. By age 13 she was kissing and touching other boys. By age 14 she had already had sex with the football quarterbacks of the school. She had told Dave that she was a virgin on their wedding night. In fact the whole time they were dating, they had only kissed and held hands. More reading showed that before they married, she had sex with 7 boys. Her diary told of how the night before their wedding, she had sex with her bridesmaid.

He read her words that she married Dave because he would be making lots of money in the future and she wanted the finer things in life. She had told him she didn't do many sexual things but her diary and iPad showed a different story.

He read in her diary of her comparing him to the guys she was unfaithful with and how he didn't measure up to them. She often laughed about Dave in her diary. About him being a clueless schmuck. Dave thought they had been trying to have children but her diary said about her having her tubes tied early in their marriage due to her having 2 abortions because she wasn't sure whose child it was. Dave was heartbroken that he might have had 2 children taken from him.

His imagination from reading her diary and seeing her iPad played scenes over and over in his mind. There was no closure of being able to confront her on her infidelity cause she was dead. he had no one to talk to – his family all gone – her family, her mom was old and not in good health, Dorcas was her “sweet baby” that could do no wrong, plus he knew that it would probably kill her mom to find out what her daughter was really like. She had 2 sisters, 1 was married and her and husband were extreme liberals, the other sister jumped from man to man, so no use even telling them, they would side with Dorcas having been unfaithful.

When he was done with her diary and iPad, he learned that over the 20 years of their relationship, she had been with 25 men and several women. Some of the men he recognized. 1 was the preacher and the other was the boss of the company she worked for. Both men were married and had children.

Dave quits going to church. Dave is heart broken, eats junk food, pizza, drinks energy drinks and Mountain Dew, gains 40 pounds, plays video games – 6 months of this. His work performance suffers and he is close to being fired. He had lost all that weight when he was grieving for his wife, then when he found out about her cheating, he gained it back plus another 40 pounds from all the junk food. He worked and then came home and just sat in a chair thinking about her cheating.

At 6 months he looked himself in the mirror and saw a pathetic man looking back at him. The man staring at him was an overweight pimply faced excuse of a man with dirty clothes and 3 days of scruffy beard.

Straightening himself up, he said NO MORE and started plotting some revenge.

[iamnobody]

Dave being a geeky nerd and VERY good with computers, came up with a plan for pay back on the preacher and the boss of Dorcas company. For the preacher, Dave had heard that this Sunday, the sermon was about sin. The preacher liked to use his computer to put up pics and video on the big screens mounted around the room. The congregation was about 10,000 people in this mega church, plus it was televised live for millions of viewers.

Well Dave decided he would attend that service and sit in the back with his laptop. Sitting there in the back, no one paid attention to him. His laptop was ready and he easily hack the preachers computer and had ready what he wanted. The preacher was preaching about how rampant sin is in the world and how evil it is. The preacher was showing different examples of sin, then he said that the next one was realy evil. At that time Dave hit his send button and the next thing shown on all the large screens and on live TV was a video playing of the preacher having sex with Dorcas, the video was showing every detail. There was absolute silence for a few seconds and then the preacher's wife launched herself on the preacher and started hitting him with a hymn book. It was a bedlam as Dave calmly walked out the door.

The boss of Dorcas company, again Dave hacked his computer and waited til he was in an online meeting with his bosses and inserted a video of him having sex with Dorcas. At the same time he sent the video also to the boss wife.

The fallout was big. The boss and preacher's wives filed for divorce and were planning on taking everything from the men. Since the 2 men were part of the elite social circle, the news made it into the news. Dave just sat back and had some satisfaction about the results. It was more than he had hoped for.

All the money he had got was invested. He was easily making 20% on the $15,000,000. His salary was way more than his living expense now that he had downsized.

His personal training was going great. The 1st few weeks were a torture. Cutting out the junk food, energy drinks and Mountain Dew and eating a healthy meals caused his body to detox which made him feel lousy. But Dave stuck to it and began to feel better. The exercising was painful. He couldn't do even one pushup or situp. Trying to jog was embarrassing. All the fat on his chest and stomach kept bouncing up and down like Jello with every step.

By 45 days he could see a big difference. He was no longer wheezing with every step, he was lifting weights and running treadmills and he was feeling so much better. His trainer had looked at him and grinned, saying he hadn't expected Dave to follow through with his goals.

By 6 months, Dave had dropped most of the fat and muscle was taking over. When he was out, women were starting to give him looks and flirt, but at least 50% of the women flirting with him were married. Dave just ignored the married women, he wasn't going to commit sin with them.

Going over his finances, he noticed that he wasn't earning as much interest on his money. Plus when he stopped to think about it, everything was costing him more at the store. He decided to do some searches on the internet.

[iamnobody]

He typed in “economy getting bad”. He got a lot of results. The top results were the normal Fox News, CNN, MSBN, etc. He was reading them and they all were saying how great things were and everything was booming. It wasn't until he got to the 5th page of results that he started seeing results from what was called alternative news sites.

Dave looked at them and those sites were reporting a completely opposite story of what the regular news sites were. He read many of their articles which lead to other articles and even videos. Before he knew it, he was even on some fictional story sites about what things could happen in bad times. One such site was Post Apocalyptic Fiction. There were a lot of great writers on there, he planned on reading more of their stories. There was one writer on there called Iamnobody. He wasn't a great writer but his stories about women cheating on their men and the trouble it causes really aligned with Dave's happening.

Dave looked at the time and was surprised that it was 4AM, he had to be at work at 8AM. He bookmarked a lot of sites to read more.

[solo]

Jan 27, 2022 22:36:03 GMT -6 texican said:

A wife that was not satisfied with her upper class life and had to find more. Sad.

Texican....

Often times, when one chases pipe dreams, they find that the pipe is a drain.  When certain goals are attained, they weren't worth chasing in the first place.

Solo

[iamnobody]

Dave was thankful that it was Friday, only getting a few hours of sleep the night before. Quitting time finally rolled around and he headed to the gym and his trainer. 2 hours of exercise and he headed back home to his apartment. He made up a big healthy salad and a smoothie, then settled down to look at his computer for more research. He went straight to sites he had bookmarked. Again, one article led to another, which led to a video. He found prepper forums and read their discussions.

He saw some preppers that were only prepared for small, short bad times and others that were prepared for long term, years long bad times. Some of the preppers he could tell weren't really stockpiling anything, they seem to be just on there to talk about preparing but not doing anything. Other preppers scared him with their talk about having a bucketful of Ramon noodles, a box of ammo and one roll of toilet paper. They were going to live off the land and take supplies from other people.

Dave was leaning towards the position of long term. Having supplies but also being able to produce more food, what did that prepper call that, oh yea, homesteading. Dave currently lived in a large city due to his late wife wanting this area and his job. But lately Dave was really beginning to hate the city life.

He had never had any experience with country life. As a youngster, the closet thing would have been RV camping and once he visited a petting zoo. But the thought was intriguing. He had plenty of money and really didn't have to work at a job the rest of his life unless he just blew through the money buying fancy toys. He had enough of the “finer” things of life.

His Condo had sold quickly because of other people wanting the status symbols. His small current apartment was rented by him for $500 a month. His car was 10 years old but both met his needs.

[iamnobody]

2 years have gone by. His investments from the money have grown from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 but it is earning less money every month. At the beginning he was earning 20% but was now down to 3%. There was a lot of talk about negative interest where the bank would charge a person to keep their money in the bank. Dave thought it was time to quit thinking about the prepper lifestyle and start doing it.

He sold all the extra business clothes he had, canceled the lease on his apartment and utilities. He had already turned his 2 week notice into the company, took the money for his unused vacation hours and sold his stock options in the company. His car was loaded with his personal things, basically his computers and regular work clothes. Checked the fluid levels in his car motor and topped the gas tank off. He wasn't sure where he was going but he knew he couldn't stay in the large city.

He planned on traveling the back roads of rural US, looking for a piece of ground to buy. He traveled during the day looking and would stop at small diners and use the free wifi to search local real estate offerings plus ask the locals about places. Nights would find him at a small motel for a hot shower and bed.

Down along the East coast but it was too populated, Florida was all tourists and he ran from there faster than a hound dog from a swarm of bees. Over into bayou country, beautiful place but high humidity and he wasn't keen on their swamps. Up through Kentucky and Tennessee, then into the Appalachia.

Dave had been taking his time and it had taken 2 months to get this far. Here the towns were small and far apart. He had stopped at a small diner and was chowing down on a plate of local food with his laptop open, trying to search for properties.

Sitting at his table, taking a bite of food, a young woman walked in, pulled out a chair across from him and sat down saying “sorry I'm late”.

[texican]

Iamnobody. He wasn't a great writer

The correct wording: Iamnobody is a geat writer.

Fixed it for you.

Texican....

[texican]

Sitting at his table, taking a bite of food, a young woman walked in, pulled out a chair across from him and sat down saying “sorry I'm late”.

Dave is in trouble now or is he?

Texican....

[iamnobody]

Continuing, the woman told him that Granny was acting up and it took some time to settle her down. Dave sat there with a puzzled look on his face with his fork ½ way to his mouth. Looking at her, he guessed her age to be late 20s. The woman kept talking about how she hated borrowing money but she had to and wanted to know what the interest rate was going to be.

Dave asked what her name was, she said it was Mae and she had spoke with him on the phone about loaning money on their house and land. He asked her how much land – 50 acres with 15 of that good farmland. He asked if it was good farmland, why did they need money then. Mae told him how her husband had died from being gored by a bull 2 years ago when helping a neighbor.

Mae said “look, will your bank lend us the money, I have to get back to Granny and tend the place” Dave told her he wasn't a banker and she looked surprised, said sorry, started looking around and standing up. He asked Mae to sit back down, he was interested in what she said.

Mae told him that she didn't discuss her private business with strangers. Dave said she already did. He told her he was looking for a place to buy, her response – it wasn't for sale. He asked if he could see the place and talk with both her and Granny. Mae finally agreed and Dave paid his bill and followed her outside.

He followed her in his car out of town and back into the hills to a lane which she turned into. On up to a small cabin where an old woman was sitting in a rocking chair on the porch. Mae got out and Dave followed her up and stopped a few feet from the woman. Granny looked at him, said Hmmfff bankers!! and spat a stream of tobacco juice between his feet.

[accountant]

Mae??

I thought her name was Ellie-Mae.

Some of the old folks here will know who I'm talkin' about.

A.

[iamnobody]

He merely stepped to the side and said he wasn't a banker. Granny asked if he was a Revenuer. Again no. Dave told her his name and that he was looking to buy a place. Granny said it wasn't for sale. He asked them to explain their predicament to him. Granny and Mae looked at each other for a long minute and then Mae started talking.

They were out of money because they couldn't keep up with all the work needed done. Dave asked Mae to show him around. He saw a nice cabin, 12 feet x 24 feet. There was plenty of forest with a mix of hardwoods and softwoods with some pines too. The fields looked good, no brush growing up and looked fertile. Going back to the porch where Granny still sat, he asked how much the place was worth and how much money did they need.

Mae said the place was valued at $80,000 and they were trying to borrow $10,000 for operating capital. A lot of thoughts were going through Dave's mind. He asked if he could stay here and sleep in his car overnight and discuss some things with them in the morning.

Again Granny and Mae looked at each other and then Mae said sure, but warned him not to try any funny business during the night or he would get shot. He assured them that he would be behaved. Mae said breakfast would be at 5:30AM, right after she chopped wood for the wood cookstove.

Next morning Mae went outside to start her chores. She was really surprised to see the city slicker as she thought of Dave, already up and over at the wood pile where he had a stack of split wood ready to go. Dave just grinned at her and said good morning.

[bluefox2]

Jan 28, 2022 16:04:54 GMT -6 accountant said:

Mae??

I thought her name was Ellie-Mae.

Some of the old folks here will know who I'm talkin' about.

A.

Yeah and even as cute as she was she still couldn't make biscuits that didn't turn out like rocks

[iamnobody]

Mae told him to come inside and bring some of the wood along. Dave sat at the kitchen table as Mae got breakfast started – fried eggs, bacon and toast. After breakfast all 3 of them went outside to sit on the porch. Mae asked what he wanted to talk about.

Dave told them their place was the type he was looking for and went on before they could stop him. He wasn't offering to buy it but to loan them the $10,000 with him also being in partnership with them. He wanted to also “improve” their place with other buildings, livestock and etc. He would live there also.

Mae said her and Granny would have to talk it over and what kind of interest rate was he offering and how soon could they get it. Dave told them 3% and he was going to trust them by not requiring any collateral, it was a personal loan to them, he figured them to be women of their word. He told them he was going back to town and wait at the small diner and would give them 48 hours to make a decision.

Back at town, sitting in the diner sipping a cup of tea, he started checking on different things to get for the farm. He checked McMurray poultry website and started pricing day old chicks and geese. He saw a bulletin on the wall and went over to see what may be for sale. He found several offers for feeder pigs and some goats for milking and meat types. There were some others offering firewood and farm equipment.

Dave had just started eating lunch when Mae walked in and sat down at his table again. He told her to order some lunch on his tab, which she did. When finished, she asked him when he could make the money available and he told her right now. Her mouth dropped open in surprise and sputtered, “you have that cash on you now.” Dave pulls out his debit card and says its on this.

He then asks her opinion about the baby chicks and geese along with the local items for sale that he saw. Mae looked at him and said you already knew we would say yes. No – he was hoping they would say yes.

So he guess the 1st item would be some food and cooking gear since he would be staying there. Mae told him they could cook enough for all 3 of them. Dave said he would need some good work clothes, boots and gloves, where did she suggest he buy them. She led him down the street to the local feed store.

[iamnobody]

Coming out of the feed mill, Dave was now wearing a pair of bib overalls, a pair of leather work boots, a ball cap with the feed mill logo and a pair of leather work gloves sticking out of the bib pocket. Mae told him that once his clothes were a little used, he wouldn't stick out so much.

Dave asked her about internet connection back at her cabin. She said it was just dial up because of the lack of money. He inquired about who to see about a better connection and while still in town, used the internet to order very high speed satellite internet. The company would be out tomorrow from the city to install it.

Back at the cabin, they unloaded groceries and sat down to discuss what the women wanted to buy. They needed seed to plant because planting season was coming up in a few weeks and they would have to pay someone to plow. Dave asked why they didn't have a tractor. Their answer again was because of lack of money. He asked who had a good tractor for sale, plow and disc. Mae said someone in another town had some. He said how about coming with me tomorrow and look at some.

[iamnobody]

The satellite installation crew was out early in the morning. It didn't take long to have it installed and it took Dave even less time to have a wireless modem set up where Mae's computer and his were logged in. Her eyes bugged out when Dave also set his computer up next to hers and she saw how fast his ran. He grinned and said he was a geek in his past life. She is thinking “oh great, a city slicker geek.” Dave logged off his computer and said let's go see about a tractor.

Driving about 45 minutes in his car, they came to another farm with a man sitting on the porch. He said his name was Clyde. He lead them out to the barn and showed them what he had. An older John Deere tractor, 2 bottom plow, disc and a 2 row corn planter. They looked it over and Mae said it looked good and the tractor sounded good and was okay on the test driving.

Settling on a delivered price, Dave and Mae headed home with Clyde following them with the tractor and equipment on a lowboy. Both Mae and Clyde's eyes got big when Dave paid him in cash. With Clyde gone, Mae said the tractor took up most of the money that they borrowed from him. Dave just grinned and said he had bought it, so they still had their money. Now who do we see about a 3 sided building to house the tractor in.

[ydderf]

Thank you

[iamnobody]

Dave said that since they would be soon plowing, it would be better for them to plow and hire someone in for building. Mae said she couldn't afford that but he said this was his improvements he had talked about. He wanted other buildings also. Ended up that he wanted a 3 sided for the tractor, a chicken coop and a barn for goats and hogs. He also wanted basements under all 3. Mae looked at Granny, who looked at Dave with a knowing look. Granny said “do it”.

Dave told them he was going to use a construction company from a different State to do the building. Both barn and chicken coop would be 16 feet x 30 feet with a full 8 feet basement. Without any warning, Granny asked if he had any guns yet. Dave had a surprised, panicked look on his face. Granny said her parents lived through the Great Depression and did things. That she had relatives that did things during the Prohibition era. They did things and hid things from prying eyes.

With a puzzled look, Mae asked Granny what she was talking about. Instead of answering her, Granny asked if he was a survivalist. Dave slowly said he considered himself a prepper or a realist. Again she asked if he had guns yet to which he said no. Mae again asked what she was talking about, Granny said they would talk later. While looking at Dave, Granny told Mae to take him to see Bubba in the morning. She told Dave to take lots of cash along.

[iamnobody]

The next day as they got into Mae's car to go see Bubba, she gave him an unreadable look. Arriving at Bubba's he saw an older man wearing a set of bib overalls that looked bulky in places. Getting out, Mae introduced Dave. Bubba said that Granny had called him.

Bubba looked him up and down, not impressed with what he saw. A geeky city slicker in brand new bib overalls, probably had never done a day of physical labor in his life. But Granny had vouched for him and he respected Granny.

Sooo, you're looking for a gun. Dave said yes and Bubba led him around back to a building and inside where he flipped the light switch on. Dave could see a row of used guns in a wall rack, looked like what were called hunting guns. Bubba told him to go ahead and look them over.

Dave moved closer and started looking. There were no price tags on them and he had to look on the barrels to see what they were. Bubba just stood off to the side and watched. Dave knew a 22LR would be handy for hunting small game and for stunning hogs at butchering time, so he selected a Marlin 25N bolt action with a scope on it. He saw some shotguns and selected a Remington 870 Express pump action 12 gauge that he had heard talk of on the internet forums. Lastly he picked up a Savage Axis 308 bolt action with a scope. He had laid all 3 guns on a nearby cushioned table top.

Bubba said they were nice guns he had selected and Dave told him he had read good reviews of them on the internet. But then looking Bubba in the eye, said that he was really hoping to find some other guns for a SHTF situation. Bubba looked at him, then at Mae, and then Dave heard a click and a door opened in the wall next to the gun rack and Bubba gestured them to go in.

Inside Dave saw several wall racks of guns that he had only seen pics of on the internet. Some knowledgeable people on the forums had talked of them. He saw M1 carbines, SKS, M1 Garand, AK47, M14 and FAL, and M16. Under the racks were boxes of magazines for the rifles. Also hanging on the wall were pistols and revolvers.

Dave reached for a FAL and looked it over. It was all painted up in various shades of green. Bubba said it came from Rhodesia. Dave laid it on a table. Next he picked up a M16 with 20 inch barrel. Again looking at the side, he noticed the safety switch had 3 positions, just like the FAL had. He laid 2 of the M16 on the table.

Moving over to the handguns, he saw a Springfield 1911A1 semi auto in 45ACP. He laid it on the table. He looked at another Springfield 1911A1 in 9mm, added 2 of them to the table. Looking at Bubba, he asked how much for the guns out there and here.

Bubba started listing the individual prices but Dave said for all of them. Plus he wanted 100 magazines each for the FAL and M16s, 20 magazines each for the pistols. That he wanted good metal magazines and not the cheap new production plastic magazines made nowadays. He had heard a lot of bad reviews of the plastic ones not working right. He wanted some extra magazines for the hunting rifles he selected in the other room.

Bubba said if it hadn't been for Granny vouching for him, he would of never of left him in and he better not be jerking his chain about wanting them all. Dave said he understood. Bubba said $15,000 – CASH. Dave turned to MAE and asked her to go out and bring his briefcase in for him. When he looked back at Bubba, he had his hand resting inside his bibs. Dave realized Bubba had a gun in there in case of trouble.

Mae came back with the briefcase and gave it to him. Dave set it on the table and opened it where Bubba could see and counted out the money. Bubba relaxed. Dave asked if Bubba had any ammo that he could buy. He did have a few boxes for each one.

Dave and Mae loaded everything into her car and CAREFULLY drove home.