Saturday rolled up way too soon to suit me. I would just as soon have stayed in Reno for another week or two.
But life calls, so Lee and I bagged up our stuff and headed for the airport.
By this time I had long since lost the $10,000 in cash the Casino had given me, but I still had $18,000 of the big win on the $5 slot machine. I asked Lee how she was doing, she had the whole $10,000 left and a couple of hundred extra.
Cool! Combine that with the check I had in my wallet and we were fat city, a cool 1.6 Million plus. Sure, it was going to get spread out over 25 years, I could deal with that....
Lee and I walked along hand in hand, we got to the area where they check the bags and things. It really is a little unnerving to see big people standing there with machine guns slung over their shoulders...This is America, but I understand..
I went right through, Lee got a buzzer. Dang, that is always a pain in the butt. now they would check out everything she had. Nothing for me to do but step forward and stand there and wait.
They took Lee into a little booth, and checked her over. The lady checking her was probably surprised to lift her dress and find nothing underneath, Lee no longer owns or wears underwear..
She was in there a good 10 minutes, as the lady poked and probed and checked her out. I had to concede Lee looked hot, hell, she is 45 and as nasty looking as a 45 year old woman in shape can look!
I just stood there, finally, they let her through. I asked her what set off the machine, she told me the clips in her shoes. They had gone right through in Portland on the way down, I thought that was odd.
We finally got our boarding passes, she was #4, I was #5, that was cool, it meant we got our pick of seats. We always choose the emergency row, I sit facing backwards, she sits across from me. That works good, I have long legs, she has short legs, we end up with lots of room!
We sat down and waited while the Southwest Airlines plane filled up.
I started to doze, lord knows I had it coming. I was short of sleep, no doubt at all! To top it off, my butt hurt, I had stuffed the cash partly in my wallet, and partly in another little folder we bought and put it in my other hip pocket. There wasn't room even them, and I had more cash stuffed in my two front pockets, and even more in my shirt pocket, buttoned down solidly. The last thing I noticed was a young man sitting down beside me on the left, and another one sitting down by him. *I always grab the window seat, this gives me room and first shot at the emergency window, (and also means I get to be the last person off the plane in an emergency.)
Soon a lady took one of the seats by Lee, then another older man.
I was tired, I really planned on sleeping the trip away, when I happened to glance at Lee and noticed she had one knee pulled back, the other stretched out. She was wearing that same flimsy skirt, and one of those modern blouses that look like underwear to me.
I was just starting to doze off anyway when the guy next to me elbowed me and said, "Hey man! Check this out!"
I opened my eyes, Lee was sitting there with her right leg pulled back, her left leg stretched out, dang, this gave us a view nearly all the way up her dress.