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Chapter no 14

Anxious People

5ACC:ย Youโ€™d probably be more comfortable if you sat on the chair instead of the floor.

LONDON:ย Have you got something wrong with your eyes or somethingแนข You can see that the charging cable for my cell phone wonโ€™t reach the chair.

5ACC:ย And moving the chair is out of the question, obviously.

LONDON:ย Whatแนข

5ACC:ย Nothing.

LONDON:ย Youโ€™ve got really crap reception in here. Like, one barโ€ฆ

5ACC:ย Iโ€™d like you to switch your phone off now so I can ask my questions.

LONDON:ย Iโ€™m not stopping you, am Iแนข Ask away. Are you really a copแนข You look too young to be a cop.

5ACC:ย Your name is London, is that correctแนข

LONDON:ย โ€œCorrect.โ€ Is that how you talkแนข You sound like youโ€™re doing role-play with someone who gets turned on by accountants.

5ACC:ย Iโ€™d appreciate it if you could try to take this seriously. Your name is L-o-n-d-o-nแนข

LONDON:ย Yes!

5ACC:ย I have to say, thatโ€™s an unusual name. Well, maybe not unusual, but interesting. Whereโ€™s it fromแนข

LONDON:ย England.

5ACC:ย Yes, I understand that. What I meant was, is there a special reason why youโ€™re called thatแนข

LONDON:ย Itโ€™s what my parents decided to call me. Have you been smoking somethingแนข

5ACC:ย You know whatแนข Letโ€™s forget that and just move on.

LONDON:ย Itโ€™s not worth getting upset about, is itแนข

5ACC:ย Iโ€™m not upset.

LONDON:ย Right, because you donโ€™t sound at all upset.

5ACC:ย Letโ€™s focus on the questions. You work in the bank, is that correctแนข And you were working at the counter when the perpetrator came inแนข

LONDON:ย Perpetratorแนข

5ACC:ย The bank robber.

LONDON:ย Yes, thatโ€™s โ€œcorrect.โ€

5ACC:ย You donโ€™t have to do that with your ๏ฌngers.

LONDON:ย Theyโ€™re perverted commas. Youโ€™re writing this down, right, so I want you to use perverted commas when I do that, so anyone reading your notes will get that Iโ€™m being ironic. Otherwise anyone reading this is going to think Iโ€™m a complete moron!

5ACC:ย Theyโ€™re called inverted commas.ย LONDON:ย Is there an echo in here or somethingแนขย 5ACC:ย I was just telling you what theyโ€™re called.

LONDON:ย I was just telling you what theyโ€™re called!

5ACC:ย Thatโ€™s not what I sound like.

LONDON:ย Thatโ€™s not what I sound like!

5ACC:ย Iโ€™m going to have to ask you to take this more seriously. Can you tell me about the robberyแนข

LONDON:ย Look, it wasnโ€™t even a robbery. Weโ€™re a cashless bank, okayแนข

5ACC:ย Please, just tell me what happened.

LONDON:ย Did you put that my name is Londonแนข Or have you just put โ€œwitnessโ€แนข I want you to use my name, in case this ends up online and I get famous.

5ACC:ย This isnโ€™t going to end up online.

LONDON:ย Everything ends up online.ย 5ACC:ย Iโ€™ll make sure I use your name.ย LONDON:ย Sick.

5ACC:ย Sorryแนข

LONDON:ย โ€œSick.โ€ Donโ€™t you know what โ€œsickโ€ meansแนข It meansย good, okayแนข

5ACC:ย I know what it means. I just didnโ€™t hear what you said.

LONDON:ย I just didnโ€™t hear what you saaaidโ€ฆ

5ACC:ย How old are youแนข

LONDON:ย How old areย youแนข

5ACC:ย Iโ€™m asking because you seem quite young to be working in a bank.

LONDON:ย Iโ€™m twenty. And Iโ€™m, like, only a temp, because no one else wanted to work the day before New Yearโ€™s Eve. Iโ€™m going to study to be a bartender.

5ACC:ย I didnโ€™t know you needed to study to do that.

LONDON:ย Itโ€™s tougher than being a cop, anyway.

5ACC:ย Of course it is. Can you tell me about the robbery now, pleaseแนข

LONDON:ย God, could you be any more annoyingแนข Okay, Iโ€™ll tell you about the โ€œrobberyโ€โ€ฆ

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