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not? and I said O.K. I went to the lady in the lobby who was coordinating all the transportation and hotels and asked about being added for the rest of the tour. She only had one space in the blocked hotel bookings and that would be with a German lady psychiatrist. That was a little more than I had bargained for so I told her I wanted single accommodations and I would look into one of the regular tour agencies. I went across the street, gave them the airline and hotel schedules of the convention and asked her to book me for airline and hotel reservations as near as she could to what the convention was going to do. I came back in two hours and she had me either on the same plane and in the same hotels or on another flight and a nearby hotel at each of the cities. So, off I went and had a great time. I had dinner with various doctors as their guest and talked with a lot more on the buses and sitting around the lobby and gave all of them a lot of info about TVs that they never had before.

One amusing event took place on Maui. I borrowed a snorkel and face plate and went out along the point at the Sheraton Maui looking at the fishes and coral. Later, a girl came out carrying a piece of pipe and went down to break off pieces of coral. When she came up I volunteered to hold the pieces for her if she would get some for me. Since I had to use one hand to hold on to the rocks to keep from being mashed against them by the tide, I tucked the coral inside the trunks of my two piece bathing suit. She broke off quite a bit so I had quite a "belly full" when I started to swim ashore-on my back because I had a hunk in both hands too. When I got to the beach, I walked up on the shore to where my psychiatrist friend was sunning himself. He looked up at me standing over him with all these protru- sions sticking out of my abdomen and with some consternation said, "For heaven's sake, fix yourself," thinking that it was my genitals that were making all the bulges. I said, "not to worry, I'm just pregnant with a porcupine" and proceeded to disgorge all the pieces of coral and allowed my tummy to return to its normal state.

On Hawaii the group was taken through an orchid farm and all the ladies were given orchids with instructions to wear them behind their left ear if they were married and behind the right ear if they were available (maybe it was the other way around, I don't remember) but I put mine right in the middle. When asked why I wore it there, I told them it was the only place left since I was neither married nor available. They all laughed. Finally, it was all over and we flew home

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