Barney waved at the new neighbors, who nearly crashed their station wagon as they saw him. He kept up the polite wave, but his face showed just how much this was amusing him.

Well, he thought, who could blame him for being amused at this? What else was he going to do, sulk? Was he supposed to hide himself away now?

He hadn't asked for this surgery, that mad doctor at the hospital decided his fate for him, but that didn't mean that he couldn't enjoy it or embrace it. Of course it upset the careful image that this neighbor had been crafting but who the hell cares about that, he thought with a smile.

No, he thought, it was much better to enjoy it and here he was outside. He knew these new neighbors would be arriving and what better way to greet them than to wear his cutest yellow dress, his best high heels, and his best silk stockings and really give them a welcome they wouldn't forget!