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and download an app. What if she had no data on her phone?

She guessed she’d be royally hooped then. She snatched her

phone out of her favorite baby blue tote with the little birds on

the front, and found the app that she needed to download. She

watched the little circle fill up and finally the app was ready to

go. She started to tap her foot impatiently and actually groaned

out load when she realized that she had to put in a bunch of

personal information. When she finally got to the credit card

part, she had to put in the make and model of the car, the

license plate number, and the meter number.

It probably would have been easier just to pay the dang

ticket. Unless they towed the car. That would suck. She wasn’t

willing to risk it, given that she didn’t know how long she’d be

in the lawyer’s office, so she paid the meter fee with her credit

card through the app and finally was able to start walking back

towards the building she’d seen half an hour before.

It took her a few blocks to orient herself. She walked the

wrong direction twice and finally turned on her phone’s GPS

to orient herself.

She was actually thankful that she could put more time on

the meter away from the car, since it took her way longer to

get to the front door of the building than she thought. Dallas

pushed it open and walked in to find a security guard sitting in

a huge lobby, blocking the elevators.

He was a huge guy who dwarfed even the massive desk he

sat behind. His white shirt was pressed immaculately and she

could see that his pants were black when he stood up to greet

her.

“I’m here to meet with Jim Johnson. He’s a lawyer with-”

“Yes.” The security guy nodded at her. He had a huge