i stared out the window just in time to see one of my lost signs on the telephone pole by the school . i shift my body slightly to wipe up the rest of the beer with my cloth . i do like to keep up the illusion that i am a class act . `` malik must have been keeping our boss informed about the problems here . that leaves us the unpleasant alternative of playing in somebody else 's game then , does n't it ? choosing to save the queen , i jumped up and ran . 