When a person is married for over thirty five years to the same person there are the ups and downs in all relationships. Tim was not always the easiest man to get along with and Jill remembered one time that she went home to her parents for a week.

Brad was still a baby and Jill and Tim were in the middle of building their home. Jill was working to help ends meet and Tim was working a lot of overtime. The combination made both of them both tired and miserable.

Daycare had always been a problem, as Jill was fussy as to who was to watch her baby and another babysitter had been a no show. Tim had a friend at work whose girl friend had a daughter. He left little Brad with the girl, who was just fourteen. First of all fourteen was a very young age to take care of a young baby and he had never thought of that.

Well it turned out that the girl invited all of her friends over and they had a party. When Jill walked in the front door, she found that the girl and her friends had gotten into the liquor cabinet and from the smell inside of the home they had been also smoking some marijuana.

Jill had a fit and called the police. These people had nearly destroyed her home, and although Brad was fine, she had it. Most of the kids in the house were young teenagers and she knew that because the house was hers if anything happened she could be held responsible. Some of the kids had cars and had intentions of driving even though they were under the influence of both drugs and alchohol.

The police had come and arrested the babysitter her boyfriend and two of their friends. Many of the kids had to give the police their name and their parents were going to be contacted.

When Tim got home later that evening, he found Jill still busy trying to clean up the place. She found that a dish that had belonged to her grandmother had been smashed and she was crying. Her grandmother had meant a lot to her and when she had died she had taken the dish as a memory.

Tim came in not knowing anything about what had happened and Jill told him. She was angry, the house was wrecked, her dish was broken, and a young girl had a party at their house. But she could not believe Tim's reaction. "You called the police on them? Why would you do such an idiotic thing as that ? I would have talked to Carrie's parents and they would have made it good."

Jill was now getting angrier at Tim than at the kids "They were smoking pot they wrecked the house drank our booze, and they were all underage. I thought that they shouldn't be driving. They wouldn't give me their names, that is most of them. Hey wait a minute why should I be defending myself? Aren't you even concerned that your eighteen month old baby was in the house with these kids?"

Tim wasn't really listening. Carrie's father Bill was one of his bosses at work and he was going to be in trouble when he went to work on Monday. "I hope you realize that your stupid response is probably going to get me fired. What an idiot." he had muttered.

Jill was very angry then and she said "You take that back. You are the not so bright one that would allow your son to be put in such danger. And then you go and take his side?"

Tim knew that Jill was losing his temper and he said "All I mean is that you had no right to call the police."

"I had no right? Why do I have to ask your permission to protect my family? What is it as long as the men scratch their butts and burp and groan they can do anything and so can their kids?"

Tim just stood there and stared at Jill. He could not believe what she had just said. "I guess there is no talking to you when you are in one of your moods. I am going down to the garage."

By this time Jill knew that she was going to need to take a stand. She called her mother and packed a bag for her and the baby. When Tim came up two hours later to apologize she and the baby were gone.

At first Tim thought that maybe Jill had just gone to the store or something, but then he saw that many of her things and the babies were gone too. He looked over and saw a note. The note had been a simple note, but the note had been the most devastating note that he had ever read. It said Tim I have taken Brad and gone to stay with my mother for a while. Jill.

This was indeed their first real fight, and he knew that if he didn't do something right away Jill and he could end up in a divorce or something. Tim had seen it happen too many times. As he sat alone in the apartment he looked around. Jill had been right, the place was trashed even now. Two of the shades had been broken and the door knob on the bathroom door was now hanging. The rugs were filthy where someone had dropped a drink on it.

Tim sat there and thought. He was going to have to clean this mess up before he could even think about calling Jill. He decided that the best thing to do was to call Bill.

Bill Downs had been at home when he had gotten the call from the police. His daughter Carrie was supposed to be babysitting at Tim Taylor's house. What were the police talking about? She was at a party and drunk. He had picked his daughter up and had found that she had a party at the Taylor house and that there were drugs and drinks there. Many of her friends were there and they were being charged with disorderly conduct for now.

At first Bill had been mad at the Taylors for calling the police. But as he had heard the story he knew that his daughter had done something foolish and dangerous. She had been in charge of a little baby and had her friends come over and drink. Something could have happened to the baby. The police said that the baby had been safe but Carrie had given them a hard time and they had arrested her. As he had put his daughter to bed the phone rang.

The last person that Bill had wanted to hear from was Tim Taylor, but it was him on the other line. Tim wanted him to come to his house and see the damage that had been done by his daughter and her friends. Bill's wife Donna shook her head no, but he wanted to see for himself. He agreed to go over.

When Bill arrived at the house, he could not believe the condition that he saw. There were stains all over the carpet and the furniture. There were broken plates, bottles and marijuana joints hidden under things. A dish was broken and as Bill looked around he told Tim: "Don't do anything more tomorrow morning Carrie is coming here and she is going to clean this place up. She knows who was here and if she wants to get them to help her it is fine. Where's Jill?"

Tim looked down and told him "We had a fight because I didn't think that she should have called the police and she went home to her mothers"

Bill shook his head and said "You are still newlyweds, you will learn. Never challenge a mother who thinks that her child has been put in danger. We will clean this place up and then you can call Jill and set things straight."

Tim spent the night alone for the first time in a long time. The sounds of the house kept him up and he missed Jill and the baby. Tomorrow things would be better he hoped.

Bright and early at eight the next morning Carrie and her mother came over to the Taylor house. Sandy, one of Carrie's friends came over too and between the three of them they had the house clean in about three hours. Donna could not believe the mess and when she had gone out to the rubbish and saw all the cleaning that someone had already done she could have slapped her kid. But, the house was now ready and Carrie was going to be grounded for the next month, as was her friend Sandy.

Tim called Jill and told her what he had done. "The house is all set and the girls have been punished. Please come home. The house and I are very lonely. " he had told her.

Who could resist such a man? Jill and Brad went back home and it was off to more adventures.