Thank you everyone for the feedback.
Alexia, I hope you had a nice 4th of July.
Ms Southworth, I enjoy all of your comments even when you don't think you make any sense.
As for Trevor and Lynette, don't think of them as characters that are central to the plot. Think of them more as a replacement for Muriel. That is they are best friends with Lucy and Mitch and we see them hang out together and occasionally talk about their problems etc. But they don't really have any plots of their own. I don't think it's so weird that Lucas has never heard of cheerleaders considering that he's grown up in Europe. When I was 8 I had no idea what a cheerleader was either.
I'm glad that you had a nice 4th of July celebration with your family.
Then as for the scenes being timed with the holiday, that was just lucky. There are more holidays coming up in this story but well with my luck we'll probably get Halloween in the spring and Thanksgiving in the summer! :lolo:
So don't expect all of the holidays to match as well as the 4th of July one did!
I think you are right that Margaret need to learn when it's appropriate to say thing. But so does all children. It's not something you know from start it's a social skill that needs to be learnt with age.
Okay so here's tonight's
update:
Wednesday evening in Houston. Bobby and Pam were seated at a table in a restaurant while they were waiting to start a business dinner. While waiting for the person who had a company for sale to show up they ordered some drinks. “I’ll have a Gin & Tonic,” said Pam.
“What about you sir?” The waitress wondered.
“I’ll have a Scotch on the rocks,” Bobby replied.
“Okay,” the waitress left to get the drinks.
Bobby and Pam returned to their small talk before they were suddenly interrupted, “Ewing!” howled a man with grey hair that approached them.
Bobby who recognized him yelled back, “Guzzler you old racketeer!” Bobby was delighted to see his old college friend. “It must have been at least 15 years since I last saw you. How have you been?”
“Oh just fine,” Guzzler said when the waitress returned with their drinks.
“Here you go, enjoy your drinks,” the waitress puts down the drinks before she motioned at Guzzler, “Is your friend joining you?”
“No,” Pam shook her head.
“Well we were supposed to have a business dinner but…” Bobby started to say when Guzzler started to laugh.
“I know, you’re here to buy an oil company, right?”
“Yes,” Bobby nodded.
“Well the company that you are going to buy is mine!” Guzzler smiled.
Bobby’s face splits up in a big smile from hearing that. “No kidding, it is a small world after all,” Bobby said and Pam sighed in despair as she did not look forward to spend the rest of her evening with Bobby’s sleazy friend. “Have a seat,” Bobby pointed to the chair next to his and Guzzler sat down.
“So what can I get you to drink?” The waitress asked Guzzler.
“Well I’ll have whatever my friends are having,” Guzzler smiled.
“But Pam’s having a Gin and Tonic and I’m having a Scotch on the rocks,” Bobby said.
“Good, then I’ll have a mixture of both drinks,” Guzzler said and the waitress looked surprised.
Bobby laughed. “You’re nuts!”
Guzzler laughed too. The only one who was not laughing was Pam. She just gave Guzzler the fish eye and said suspiciously, “I didn’t know you were in the oil business Guzzler. The last time we met it was construction wasn’t it?”
“Well a lot happen in fifteen years,” Guzzler said. “I guess you two have kids by now?”
“Yeah two,” Bobby said.
“A boy and a girl,” Pam said and her face softened a bit when she spoke of the kids.
“Rebecca’s 7 and Christopher will be 14 in August,” Bobby said.
“That’s nice,” Guzzler smiled politely, when the waitress arrived with his special drink.
“Here you go enjoy your drink,” the waitress puts down the drink on the table and Guzzler took a sip of it.
“So how did you end up in the oil business?” Pam changed the subject since she didn’t trust Guzzler and didn’t want to get too personal with him.
“Well I’ll tell you all about it over dinner,” Guzzler smiled. “However don’t you think we should get the business part of the dinner over with first?”
“Fine by me,” Bobby said. “So how much do you want for your company?”
“Well the company is estimated to 40 million dollars, but I’m willing to let Guzzler Oil go for 35 just because of old friendship sake,” Guzzler said.
“Bobby I am not sure the company’s worth it,” Pam objected.
“I see your wife is still a shrew,” Guzzler said.
“Bobby please don’t buy his company,” Pam said in a demanding voice. “There’s something fishy about it.”
“Oh please do buy it Guzzler Oil. It’s a very good company. I’ve got all the papers in my briefcase, all you have to do is sign it,” Guzzler said.
“Don’t do it Bobby,” Pam objected. “At least not without reading the contract first,” Pam pleaded with Bobby to listen to reason.
“She does have a point, would you mind if I look over the contract first?”
“No not at all, if you’d rather waste 15 minutes of our dinner on reading instead of catching up be my guest. But I must warn you I only have an hour for dinner as I’m supposed to catch a flight to Jamaica later tonight.”
“Oh well if that’s the case I guess I can read the fine print later,” Bobby agreed.
“But Bobby…”
“No Pam, it’s okay, we can trust him. He’s an old friend,” Bobby said.
“Great so do we have a deal?” Guzzler asked.
“Yes it’s a deal,” Bobby shook Guzzler’s hand.
Pam sighed as Guzzler picked up the documents from his briefcase, “Great, let’s sign the contracts.”
“You weren’t kidding when you said you had the contracts all drawn up,” Bobby remarked.
“No, like I said I do have a flight to catch later tonight.”
“So I guess you were pretty sure I was going to buy the company then,” Bobby said.
“Well I hoped you would, Guzzler Oil is like my baby. So I feel better knowing it will go to a friend.”
“But if you feel so strongly about it, why sell it?” Pam asked.
“Because there’s more to life than business, I’ve found this girl in Jamaica, so I figured it was about time for me to settle down. But I can’t run the company from there. So I figured an early retirement might be in order,” Guzzler explained and Pam rolled her eyes.
“That’s great, I never thought you’d settle down. But I guess it’s true as they say, better late than never,” Bobby smiled.
“Yeah, also I don’t wanna stress you, but the contract.”
“Oh of course, do you have a pen?” Bobby asked.
“Bobby are you sure you aren’t going to at least skim read through the documents before signing?” Pam asked.
“Nope I don’t need to,” Bobby signed the papers. Guzzler also signed them and then they took one copy of the contract each. “So how would you like to get paid?”
“You don’t happen to have cash on you?” Guzzler asked and Pam frowned.
“Cash?” Bobby questioned.
“Relax, I’m only kidding, a check will do just fine.”
“Okay good,” Bobby took out the check book and wrote out a check to Guzzler for 35 million dollars.
Guzzler took the check, “Thanks Bobby, I always knew that I could count on you,” Guzzler smiled. “So now what are we doing to eat, I’m starved,” Guzzler said as he started looking at the menu.
“Well I think I’ll just have a salad,” Pam said.
“But Pam I thought you said you wanted a Texas steak before,” Bobby said.
“Well that was before, right now I’ve lost my appetite,” Pam said and as she looked from Bobby to Guzzler who happily joked and chatted away she just knew that it was going to be a
long evening.
Sorry to do that to you! 
I was so tired when I wrote those reviews.:shy: My family and I went to a great 4th of July celebration, and looking back now, I guess that the amount of speakers and entertainment mixed with sunshine, a soft breeze, great food, great company, finishing off with a two hour drive and then an amazing walk along the beach eventually made me more tired than I thought! 
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY !!! 
Just brilliant! :loveit:
And that's why I had to laugh, when Rebecca said: “What are they doing in Houston anyway?” (... ... if she was only old enough to understand what makes the world go round!) :lolo: 
I feel very sorry not only for him but for everyone else who has to listen to it (although I suspect that the bickering is somewhat connected to the "unfinished" business between JR and Sue Ellen!) However, I loved how John Ross brought Don into the conversation to make his parents be quiet ! 
Very much so an update with "Dallas" (the young and glory years) hanging all over it! 
If Bobby'd known that, he might have reacted somewhat differently when seeing his old friend again. 