Hi jgeorge, You're right, the scene I wrote does skirt the edges of the theme. I started one thing and ended up with another - a scene about a sense of place, the place we all arrive where life gives us a cold splash of reality. This can happen any where. You could say that Sandra is in herself, more cognitive and circumstantial than geographical. It's similar to the place I once was when I first joined the army. It was 3 in the morning, I had slept for two hours, and some crazy man stormed into the bay yelling, and pulling us out of bed. Did you ever see the movie "Full Metal Jacket?" Well, he looked like that Drill Sergeant. For a few seconds I was at a place were I realized that maybe joining the Army was a bad idea, but it was too late. It's a place where and when some type of change must be made. Actually the army turned out to not be as bad as I thought. As for the scene, it has nothing to do with your understanding of the language. You're mostly right about it not fitting the parameters. If it was a pitch, it would probrably be out of the strike zone. I'm just unconventional like that; some times I go into my own world, but that's ok cause they know me there.