Angie:  Do you mean your roommate stole your stuff?

Bette:  My roommate never stole from me.  But she had this boyfriend who would eat all my potato chips and cookies while I was in class or at the library. So, I started locking it up and when I got ready to snack, I had potato chips. My roommate had a trunk too and she started locking hers up as well. Snack foods are more precious than money.

Tina:  Oh, honey, you probably need a place that you can lock up your most valuable things.  You want to lock up your passport, your emergency stash of cash and maybe even your nice jewelry. And a trunk would be ideal. They are heavy and when filled they are not easy to move.

They arrived at the ice cream parlor and all went and placed their order.  Bette and Tina got cups of ice cream while Angie and Daniel got cones of ice cream.

Angie:  So how did your appointment’s go.

Bette:  Dr Wilson says we are in good health.

Tina:  Angie, she said that both of us are in early menopause as well.

Angie:  Menopause? Is that bad?

Bette:  No honey. It’s a natural change your body goes through when your child bearing years are over. It’s a time when your body stops your menstrual cycles and producing eggs and other things which would allow you to produce a child. It’s an adjustment process that the body goes through. Some have a very stressful time with the changes and some people have no problems what so ever.

Daniel:  So, which one are you? The stressed one or the no problems one?

Tina:  It’s too early to tell for both of us. We are in the wait and see mode.

Daniel:  Well, you’re not in any pain or anything are you?

Bette:  No, we are not in any pain.  But we may start to experience hot flashes.

Angie:  Do I dare ask what hot flashes are?

Tina laughed:  Sure daring, it when the body produces this heat wave which starts in your core and then radiates out through your body. All of a sudden you are uncomfortably hot and possibly sweating when everyone else is comfortable with the temperature. Some women have lots of them. Some women have them occasionally. But the body will balance itself out and the hot flashes will go away.