As for me -- I had just started to nap when the UPS man arrived, ringing the doorbell and startling dog and
Oooooookay then. Useful, but -- startling.
I think this is one of those situations where I have been quietly sorting through all the ways this scene could go and deciding that I hate them all except for one. It's like furniture shopping: we go out, we hate everything, we scowl and swear, we go out again, we hate everything but one, we buy it, and here we are. What we are doing is dodging the One Twoo Wuv meme. I think that the nature of the character involved has left the Girls Who Like It Are Dirty Sluts meme in the dust 150K-200K words ago. But one still has to give wide berth to the Men Who Like It Are Chauvinist Pigs meme, and the Perfect First Time meme, and the Communication Is Unnecessary meme, and...so I guess what I'm saying is that it's no surprise that this looked hard to do at first, because the whole thing is a freakin' minefield, but really there's only one path left that I can stand at all. In a fair amount of detail, apparently. Go figure.