The greyness of the day left very little to look forward to and also meant that the pavements and the roads looked dirtier than usual. He felt heavy o... his feet, natural after a run, but he still resisted the urge to sit. After finishing his banana, he put the skin inside a veg bag he’d brought with him and skipped it back in his bum bag to take home for his compost bin. Before getting his phone out and putting his headphones in for his journey home, Jerome thought he’d enjoy this moment of. It makes it that much more fun when you finally get them home.” I smiled at her and laughed.Fortunately, Alice came over and joined us. She kissed my cheek and took my hand. Before we went down the hall, Carol stopped me and kissed me, also. “You’re going to like this, Alice.”Alice and I walked out of the living room, and she led me to the kitchen. Placing her hands on the table, she checked it for strength. Satisfied, she turned around and hopped up on it. “Having fun, so far?” she asked.“I. I and friends used to visit all shipping companies, searching for jobs. It was a depressing, dreary routine, going in the hot sun and receiving blanks. We used to divide into groups, one group would go to Nariman point another to Colaba, yet another to other small companies. In the evening we would drown our sorrows in beer and sleep dreaming of a cheerful tomorrow. There was one very tall, handsome Young man of our age, with flowing long black hair and beard. He was also a Junior Engineer like. I focused on the shooter, who was standing by the open driver’s door, with his left side facing toward me. As he got off two more shots at the ambulance, I let him have a load of buckshot in his left side, somewhere between his waist and shoulder. It hit him squarely and he flew back into the driver’s seat while his gun bounced off his open door and skittered across the pavement. The semiautomatic shotgun went back into battery with another round in the chamber, and I felt the little lurch that.