Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
The woman in the lab coat drove up to the ATM. Leaving the engine running, she jumped out of her car.
Technically, by breaking her journey she was breaking protocol. But what could she do? Her landlord was demanding his rent.
The joyriders couldn’t believe their luck, and moments later sped off in Lab Coat Lady’s car.
“Piece of cake!” crowed Lenny, running a red light.
“Candy from a baby,” Robin agreed as they flew over a hump-backed canal bridge.
From the back of the car, the tinkle of breaking glass curbed their excitement. Robin leaned back, stuck his hand into a gym bag on the rear seat, and yelped with pain.
“What is it?” asked Lenny.
Robin peered into the gym bag. “Lab stuff — broken test tubes.”
“What’s in them?”
“Water, I think. There’s a label. Says, ‘H5N1 samples’.”
“You dummy!” shouted Lenny. “They’re not
water samples.…Water’s H2O!”
Readers can contact Paul via GW’s Newsdesk (gwnewsdesk@tradearabia.net) or directly on kimpaulkat@yahoo.co.uk
