Roger, the "shrieking contest" gave me shivers. What is it with that? It seems the older the friendships with these girls, the louder the shrieking gets. Heaven forbid you should make an apperance during the melee hoping for leftover morsels of food (there's never any). The cacaphony dies like the baddie entering the saloon, you turn tail and slink away to a muffled comment that you didn't quite hear and further waves of wailing.... Was that about me, or men in general?
Not that I've had any bad experiences with that sort of thing.