Joan enjoyed her time as a garden department manager at Walmart before the big promotion. Steve, an ex-lover, contacted her to say that he was a woman and had always been one, despite everything. Joan smiled at that as she couldn't help but to remember Steve's *****-pride, how he'd balance things on it and test the temperature of soup with it.  One day when their jeep got stuck in deep mud Steve tied one end of a rope to the bumper and the other end to his stiff...well, anyway...