I am so sorry! Somehow this week slipped through the cracks. Puh-leeeeeeeze forgive me! The slip of paper I pulled from the really big medicine bottle says: Indecent I hope all the warped minds can find something to do with this!

I'm just glad you hadn't landed back in hospital or anything! Now to consider the prompt...

Thanks, GGO! I don't know what caused my brain to malfunction like that...

I hate to tell you this, EW, but ... you're human ...

Princess had waited hours for her shower. Time and again had requested a renovation of the teams shared showering quarters. You'd think in 2258 she'd be able have one simple request for privacy acted upon and no more reed tape? But it was worse that it had been a century before. All the regulations in place meant nothing was likely to ever happen before her 30th birthday, and then it would up to another committee to approve it. Longing for her flat above Jill's she at least could have some privacy there. But they were currently under orders to stay on base, and it had been weeks. Sharing with the boys... the only benefit was the odd flash unknowingly from Mark as he dried off. Then her modestly sent her blushing wildly and taunts from Keyop, wise cracks from Jason about them, and Tiny not knowing what to do. She had place her request from time she hit puberty and noticed more about her forming curves, when showering in the same room with four other boys and a little kid. She had worked out techniques to cover up, she'd become so skillful in towel wrapping and dressing the boys had taken it to be a competition- Marks losing his towel was a classic. Jason and his practical jokes, over the last few months had bordered on indecent. He poured icy cold water into her shower bay the week before. She got him back with a full bag of flour as soon as his shower stopped, it had been set up perfectly.... He stopped the shower, and a mechanism released the flour, she didn't even have to be in the room. She'd and made sure the timer, she'd set on the water system to cut off meant he couldn't rinse it out. His unruly locks were coated like battered fish ready for the fryer. Rock hard greys, and a snarling lips stood out more distinctly, she noted, white clumps of flour falling off his lean form, stuck like glue without water to wash it off. Highlighting his olive muscular form from head to toe- He deliberately walked over naked down the corridor to find the Swallow with his cable gun in one hand... He couldn't get it all out before the mission call twenty minutes later. He was grumpier than normal, he was pursuing Keyop like a manic around the Spectran base in a puff of dried floury goop, leaving clumps in his wake. He gun drawn, and aiming it. Mark caught his arm in time. It took a few minutes for Mark to convince Jason was meant to be chasing Spectrans not his own teammate. Clueless green clad soldiers watching as he flew past. They had a job to do and orders to shut down the base, not the Swallow. The kid for once was innocent of the crime, and his pleas fell on deaf Condor ears. She went about her business like she knew nothing about it. setting her charges in place- humming a tune... Knowing it was cruel, but it lame compared to some of the things he did as a joke in the shower room since they were kids, well all four of them... Especially to her. She had thoughts of slipping Jason a note, and owning up.. later that evening in the shower cubical on her own. Eventually she would find the opportunity, but for now... she just wanted a nice hot soapy shower... alone.

Double post, not sure why!!!

You'd think that Galaxy Security could get in HUGE trouble for not providing Princess with her own facilities.

Originally posted by ChrisW You'd think that Galaxy Security could get in HUGE trouble for not providing Princess with her own facilities.

Yeah, where's HR when you really need 'em?

By the time we're in 2258 I figured they'd more likely combined than separate. Her application is currently with the anti-discrimination board in Centre Neptune. A few members are contesting that having her own shower space is discrimination against the other team members who won't have their own... and what if one of them wants to use it?.... the list goes on... and on... they're seriously in a bind.

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Ebonyswanne -- Of course! I keep forgetting the special stupidity factor that comes into play whenever any type of government is involved! (For example, limiting the number of bullets a soldier in a war zone can shoot while in battle...) GGO -- You're right on the money with kids & homework! (And it doesn't even require the ultimate autocorrect -- Zark -- to make those mistakes!)

GGO: Welcome to the long-held tradition around here for the Swallow having some kind of issue with words/spelling/etc. It's always fun to mess with him like that!

ES -- Princess needs to get herself a good lawyer! Or, failing that, a long bathrobe -- for the boys to wear! GGO -- The perils of autocorrect... the bane of many a galaxy. Maybe G-Force uses also Google translate when they talk to Spectra!

GGO- zaek would have a meltdown if anyone mentioned his errors. The robot could be brought down a peg or two from his lofty heights. Kids with homework. I'm wondering how Keyops class speech went. Id ferl for him foing it. They all get marked the same disabilities aren't considered in grading the speech. My 9yr old daughter has had severe speech problems.APD ( had 30 words at 4 years old was considered non-verbal.) Spelling/ reading are hard work due to difficulty sounding words. Goes hand in hand with it.

Zark does make elementary errors, which I've ranted about at length in my episode reviews. I suppose I could say that the whole nebula/nebulae thing appears to be Greek to him, but that would be crass. I had a mild stutter as a small child. These days I have been known to commit professional public speaking, but I still stutter when I'm tired. Audiences are pretty generous and seem inclined to give me a pass if I trip over my own tongue in the middle of a talk. Next weekend I'll be working with an Auslan (sign language) interpreter during my lecture. It'll be a first for me, and I'm quite looking forward to it. There's a certain irony: the speech impaired being translated for the hearing impaired.

Originally posted by GrumpyGhostOwl There's a certain irony: the speech impaired being translated for the hearing impaired.

I wonder what the rule is for translating stutterers to sign language. Do you sign the stutter? My first boyfriend had a pretty noticeable stutter. Apparently he hadn't spoken at all until he was 6 years old, though his mother never figured out if it was just that he didn't speak until then or that he'd tried earlier and realized he stuttered and so didn't try again until that age.

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Originally posted by ChrisW You'd think that Galaxy Security could get in HUGE trouble for not providing Princess with her own facilities.

Originally posted by Ebonyswanne By the time we're in 2258 I figured they'd more likely combined than separate. Her application is currently with the anti-discrimination board in Centre Neptune. A few members are contesting that having her own shower space is discrimination against the other team members who won't have their own... and what if one of them wants to use it?.... the list goes on... and on... they're seriously in a bind.

Hmmmm....ya know...I can see arguments for both sides....

Originally posted by ChrisW GGO: Welcome to the long-held tradition around here for the Swallow having some kind of issue with words/spelling/etc. It's always fun to mess with him like that!

LOL, funny how those pop up from time to time. They are fun to write!