The Chase

The Chase

I was running. Why you might ask. Well, when you are in my position, and there is something you want, you just take it. And if someone sees you doing it, they chase you to get it back. Hence, I was running. 

Mind you, I was not running fast, for the ones that were chasing me were not very swift. They obviously knew that I had taken something by my hasty exit, but they didn’t know what.

It is hard to chase someone when you are unsure of why you are chasing them, and you only suspect that they did something wrong. 

Now back to the chase – Where was I going to go to evade my pursuers, and what was I going to do with what I took? Up ahead, there was an alley. I chose to take it. At the end of the alley, there was a fire escape that led up to the top of a very tall apartment building. Time to test whether or not my pursuers were good climbers. 

It turns out that most of them were not willing to climb the fire escape. There was, however, one person that took me up on the challenge, and she was getting closer. 

I reached the roof of the apartment building and decided on my next option. Should I try to be a superhero and leap from building to building across rooftops or just find an exit into the building and enter it?

I chose neither. I opened the door to the entrance to the building, left it open, and then hid behind the chimney on the roof. 

When my pursuer noticed the open door, upon reaching the rooftop, she did exactly what I assumed she would; she went into the building and down the stairs. 

I quietly went back to the fire escape and went back down to the alleyway. By that time, all the other pursuers had gone. I leisurely walked back to the street and headed back to my house. 

Safely within the confines of my house, I took out the purloined item and shared my ill-gotten gain with my wife. 

She looked at me and nodded her head back and forth with a face of incredulity. She sneered. “You are such an idiot. You do realize that Covid tests are free, don’t you?”

My response was, “Well…I…No.”

She gave that look again, which she seems to do frequently, basically indicating to me…Please, don’t do that again.

Well duh! I don’t think so.