Bob stretched in his car, tired from the uncomfortable sleep he got last night. He kept nodding off. His stomach kept growling. He finally decided to quickly go get a nice cup of tea. Enough customers were in the restaurant by now so he shouldn’t attract much attention.
A young, good-looking woman came over to his table to take his order. “I’m Julie what can I get for you today sir?” “You look like you could do with a nice cup of tea today.”
“Yes please” Bob answered, “with two sugars please.”
“Anything else?”
“Nope that’s all thanks.”
“So you don’t look around from here, you passing through?”
“Yes” he said. “Going down to Boston.”
“Interesting, kind of a long drive.”
“I’ve got plenty of time.”
She moved off to take another order, and he watched her go. Friendly Lady, but probably dumb because she works taking orders of customers. She served him his tea in no time. They were really good.
Julie had sorted out all her orders for the time being so she came to Bob’s table.
“So how long you have been travelling for.”
“About three days now” he said.
“So why you going Boston for.”
“Meet my relatives and try to find some work.”
Julie’s friendliness dissipated. She leaned over closely and said if you think your going to rob this place you’ve got another thing coming I’ve got the best shot than any officer around here. You’d be best forgetting any thoughts you have about robbing my employers and me.
“Ha no, no” he shouted. “Its just for protection when I’m on the road, you can never be to careful out on these roads”.
“Well just to know where I stand.”
“Is there only one officer in the town?”
“Yep,” she said. “But I keep an eye out for things too. I’m not as dumb as you may think I am.”
“I’ll bet you are.”
“Excuse me I find that very offensive and if you don’t mind I hope you will make your way now.”
“Yep I should be off bye.”
After that, he decided there was not another second to waste. He unlocked his car at the grocery parking lot for an easy getaway, and then he walked across the street to the bank. There weren’t many people inside the bank, but he decided it would have to do.
He shouted, “This is a Bank robbery people! Don’t anyone move, and you wont get hurt.”
With his pistol, he lined up three customers against the wall and warned the workers if they pressed the alarm of one of their customers will be shot. He ordered the customers to put all there possessions in a moneybag.
There were two workers behind the counters. He handed them each a money sack. “Put all the god damn money from the drawers in there” he demanded. “Oh and don’t bother with the change” he laughed his brains out.
He stood quietly, watchful, alert, waving the gun around between the customers and the workers. He felt very calm and confident. He could remember the only officer in the town driving the complete opposite way to him when he was coming to the bank.
So he was pretty sure that no police would bother him.
When the two workers, both female had filled up the sacks and handed it over. He ordered them to the floor and opened the sacks and all he could see was the colour green. He was pretty sure the dough wasn’t fake and so made his way out. He took his time to get to his car, not to draw attention.
He reached the car and chucked the bags inside, revved the engine, and he was off and away. He got onto the motorway and not one technical glitch to his plan, all was well.
He had made it to his mid-point and was about to get into his other car when all of a sudden a car came and stopped beside his.
“Hands up” a woman shouted as she jumped out of her car. “I guess you didn’t believe me when I said id keep an eye on things.”
Bob gave her a dirty look and started swearing at her violently.
“Bob I can’t believe you really thought you could rob another bank again let me think six time running now?”
“How do you know you fish.”?
“The Police hired out me as a undercover agent to track all your movements so you couldn’t attempt or at least get a away with a bank robbery.”
“Well you can’t blame me for trying.”
“Just keep those hands above your head. One false move and your dead.”
She reached over and removed his gun from his pocket. Then handcuffed him and put him into her car. She transmitted a backup call for more police to come and search the scene of the crime.
Bob asked, “ Why didn’t you stop me earlier then.”
“So you could do the crime and so now I can get you behind bars for quite some time.”
He didn’t say any more, but relaxed and grinned. At least I wont be going hungry, stealing for a living and wearing dirty clothes. Jail provided three meals a day, a place to sleep, some books to read, and the odd mental people to talk to. He closed his eyes and concluded that today he really had done a good days work.
