My wife left early to take our eleven year old daughter, Mindy, to a soccer game. They took Polly, our seven year old and Suzy, the four year old with them…so I was able to sleep in a little…until about 9:30. I got up, ate a little breakfast and took a shower.

I was just finishing drying off when I heard the doorbell ring. I tossed the towel onto the bed and went to the front door, still naked. I opened it just a crack, not enough to let anybody see that I had no clothes on, and peeked out to see a slender young blonde girl about eleven or twelve years old was standing on the porch. She was wearing a cute little summer dress, tennies and white gym sox.

She said "Hello, Mr. Williams, our school is putting on a summer play. Since Mindy is in the play, would you please buy some tickets from me?" Well she looked like such a cute young lady, how could I turn her down?

"I don't have any money on me," I truthfully said to her, standing their stark naked.

"I can take a check," she explained, "I do hope you'll help us out, because it will mean a lot to Mindy, and to the rest of us too. Here's a copy of the playbill." She handed me a small poster and I could see that it had an order blank at the bottom for me to fill out. I'm always a patsy for the kid's stuff, so I caved in.

The door was still only open just enough for her to hand me the poster, so I said, "O.K. just a minute. I'll fill this out and write you a check." I carried the poster a few feet into the den, put it down on the desk, filled out the order blank and began writing the check.