Sure, I can get money from my wife whenever I want it, but tell me fellas, that gets a little old, doesn't it? The problem is, as you might imagine, my wife views herself as the only appropriate person from whom I should get this little pleasure.

Hey, I'm no saint - we live in a wealthy neighborhood, thanks to my wife's fortune, and I have sneaked over to the neighbors' when my wife has been out, and accepted a little cash off her best friend Sally, but in general, I get my 'moola' at home.

The problem is my thirteen-year-old stepdaughter, who has an allowance and a trust fund of her own. I can't get the idea of getting some money from her out of my mind! But of course, what would she think if I asked for it? Hell, I know one thing, her mother would be furious, and rightly so!

Then one day, when my wife was out a charity function, my stepdaughter, Candace, came to me.

"Jack, can I ask you a favor?"....(cont)