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It was really great to meet up again and surprising the way we fell into the old patterns of benign teasing. There was the indulgence of reminiscence and a lot of catching up on the water under the bridge. In some cases that seemed to be quite a deluge. Having said that, we were more or less up to date on relationships – break ups and reassemblies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four of us, who now sat in a city park, had been especially close and still shared an odd sense of humour. I have to admit some of our conversations tended to straddle the boundary of acceptability, but it was all part of the delight of storytelling about passers-by who were unaware of their part in our dramas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u2018Do you remember that chap who used to round up stray dogs and turn them into sausages?\u2019  Julian made the first bid to recall our game<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Yep, he was always in the park, and his dog never smiled. You could tell it had seen things no dog should ever have to witness,\u2019 Jessie was catching the mood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018And that alien child who was always hitting smaller children \u2018til they cried. Maybe her people reclaimed her and took her back to their own planet. If I was them I\u2019d have found the nearest black hole and pressed the spacecraft ejector button.\u2019 Yvonne liked to walk on the dark side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia brought us into the present by pointing out a very tall woman engrossed in a phone chat to the point you might worry she would bump into a tree. \u2018If she can walk through a tree, maybe she is not of this world. But what are her super powers besides walking through trees?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A general hum of conjecture occupied the next few seconds before Jessie, lowering her voice, looked at a young man in a puffa Jacket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018OK, why is that chap wearing a puffa jacket on such a warm Spring day. Looks suspicious to me, although maybe not as bad as the dog-sausage man?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Easy,\u2019 Julian offered, \u2018he\u2019s on his was to do a bank robbery. Under that coat he\u2019s wearing a fake suicide belt and he\u2019s going to terrify the bank staff and get them to stuff money in his back pack.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018It\u2019s possible,\u2019 Georgia allowed \u2018but I reckon inside his coat are lots of pockets. He\u2019s on a shop lifting trip, and when he\u2019s done one shop he can transfer the goods to his bag and do some more stealing.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was time to get the train. As the friends dawdled through the park, they felt a tremor and could see frightened people rushing from the station in panic. Sirens sounded and traffic was urgently diverted away from the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Really, the only thing to do was to sit on a bench and regroup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Shoplifter? Hah,\u2019 Julian scoffed. \u2018Thing about this game is that you have to accept that, as in life, sometimes you may be nearly right.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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