Fast Fiction: Something
There's an explanation for every dramatic act, as Richard Malinson's story confirms.
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The elderly man said, 'As for you, it's time something was done.'
'What do you mean?'
'I mean what I say.'
'You absurd old cretin.'
'What did you say?'
'I said you absurd old cretin.'
'Yes, that's what I thought you said.'
A week later I met him in the street.
'Oh, it's you,' he said. 'I thought I'd seen the last of you.'
'No, not yet you haven't.'
'Come here then, and say hullo to my wife.'
I looked but couldn't see a wife or anyone resembling a wife.
'I'd rather not,' I said, hurrying away.
The last time I saw him was at the bus stop.
'I didn't know you went on buses,' he said.
'Now and again,' I said.
"That's not the point ... Are you going to apologise?'
'What for?'
'Insulting my wife.'
It was then that I picked him up and threw him under a bus.
