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  A muted yowl from the back of his van was the answer.

  * * *

  “What’d you do?” Hi-my-name-is-Debbie asked.

  “Little Pat had the address on his collar. I calmed him down with my lunch. Roast beef sandwich with cheese and Dijon dill mustard—“

  “Yum,” Hi-my-name-is-Shelly commented.

  “Barf,” Hi-my-name-is-Anne retorted. “Why would you ruin a perfectly good sandwich with dill mustard?”

  “Anyway, her friend was there by the time I showed up. And the weird thing was, her friend didn’t think any one part of my story was weird.”

  “Which is weird in itself,” Hi-my-name-is-Debbie said.

  “Tell me.”

  “For the last time: switch!”

  Clive looked up, blinking. He’d been so focused on telling his story he’d failed to realize he had, at the end, been telling it to the entire room. The moderator was red-faced and twitchy.

  “Oh,” he said, surprised. “Uh. Sorry. I guess—okay, sorry. I gotta go.”

  At least four of the women jumped up and followed him out to the parking lot. When he finally got into his Better van, he had slips of paper sticking out of all his pockets, all with brand-new e-mail addys and cell phone numbers.

  Bemused, he pulled one out at random. In a flowing, feminine script, he read, You need to show me how she kissed you. Call me! Shelly P., 651-231-7279.

  Well, damn, he thought, starting his van. I kind of have to marry one of these gals. Just so we can tell people how we met.

  Clive Better pulled out of the parking lot, ready to resume protecting the good people of Edina, Minnesota, from clogged drains and leaking pipes. And the occasional deranged blonde.

  THE END

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