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uncomfortable situation.
    Libby then noticed Chuck’s attention never left the other end of the diner. She turned to follow his stare, and Joe soon followed. “Sometimes I think his hormones’ll be the death of him,” he muttered. “Chuck, man, ya got no morals... none !” Joe took another bite of his food.
    Chuck had apparently caught the attention of one of the ladies. She was smiling at him. Within a few minutes she approached their table.
    “Hi, aren’t you Chuck King? I’m a huge fan! So’s my daughter, but she’s kinda shy. Would you mind giving us your autograph? You too, Joe,” she giggled.
    “Sure thing, Mama,” Chuck took her pen and paper and signed it.
    Looking around as if to share a secret, the woman whispered, “Well, now, in these parts I might go to jail for being called mama by the poster boy for so many of my impure thoughts!” she giggled again, with a voice that clearly didn’t match her age.
    “Mama!” the teenager exclaimed with embarrassment.
    Chuck smiled at the woman, then drew a heart on the paper and kissed it. His eyes drifted to the daughter, who shyly approached. Chuck zeroed in on her and smiled his most charming smile.
    “Hey there sweetheart, what can I do for you?”
    The girl smiled, and her mother gushed, “Well, we don’t wanna interrupt your breakfast. Joe, will you?” she stepped behind her daughter to hand the paper to Joe. Joe took the paper and signed it, handing it back to the mother with a smile and a nod.
    “C’mon Christine, let’s leave ‘em be,” the mother ushered the daughter back to their booth, both giggling over their treasure.
    Chuck propped his head on his hand as his thumb stroked his chin, then leaned out of the booth to watch them walk away. “Man, I’d do the mom just to have the girl!”
    “Chuck!” Joe whispered.
    “What? Her skirt kinda looks like a little flower,” Chuck grinned, then began making a buzzing sound as he squirmed upright again.
    “I never did a mother-daughter before,” Chuck laughed, then looked directly at Libby to gauge her reaction, raising his eyebrow in challenge. “Maybe I should add that to my to-do list,” an evil laugh completed his thought.
    “Tell me, you’re not like that?” Libby asked Joe directly, wincing.
    Joe shot a startled glance sideways at her, then at Chuck. “No chance!” he replied, rolling food around in his mouth to keep from choking, He swallowed hard, all the while shaking his head slowly. He returned his attention to his plate in hopes that the conversation ended there.
    “It’s easy to think we’re all just out for ass, but don’t let Chuck’s example stand for all of us.” Joe punctuated the sentence with a direct look into Libby’s eyes. “Some of us can even be nice guys,” he smirked, a challenge in his eyes.
    As Libby turned her focus again to her food, Chuck’s attention shifted quickly to Joe, and he laughed a hearty, although somewhat delayed, “HA!” A few more moments of awkward silence followed.
    Joe gave Chuck a hard look. “Really, man? Why don’t you hurry up and eat, so maybe you can go somewhere… soon .”
    Chuck shot a glance at Joe, “Uh, you fine folk’s hav’ta ‘scuse me...I think I see, uh, some body I know.” He slipped out of the booth, and strutted to the end of the diner where two new girls had taken a booth.
    Joe turned to see Chuck’s path. Turning back, he shook his head, “Sometimes I just don’t know ‘bout that boy. He’ll spend every dime he makes in a night if I don’t watch out for him. You’d think he’d figure it out sooner or later, but no...and I foolishly keep bailin’ him out of his messes!” Joe pushed his empty plate to the end of the table and threw back the last of his coffee. “So, who’s the one who doesn’t figure it out?”
    Libby noticed the clock on the wall and was shocked to see it was after three o’clock. She promised Laura she’d be in her driveway in Las Cruces in a few hours.