THE GOOD GUYS AND THE BAD GUYS

BY STAN STIMER

The next time some days later nicola came over to play with claire, she carried a plastic bag with her. I just though it was books or some games perhaps. A little later they asked if I could join in a game with them. They wanted to be charlies angels and asked me to be a baddie. They had some monopoly money from claires game and she had one of those toy safes with a combination lock on the front.

They put the monopoly money that was supposed to be their takings for the day for catching baddies inside the safe and told be the combination before the game started. I was to rob their safe that was in their supposed office. Nicola was her long black hair was preteding to be the Jackylin Smith character and claire with her long blonde hair was prentnding to be the Cheryl Ladd character.

I burst into their office with a wolly hat over my face and said where's the money. I told them to lie on the floor and I opened the safe. They said ok take what you want but dont hurt us mister. After I stuffed the money in my pocket I had the now infamous jump rope and nylon clothes line rope from the last story and said I am going to tie you up to stop you calling the cops.

I tied their hands behind their backs in my normall hands crossed over fashion but with some slip nots this time. I showed them earlier how to get out of slip nots so that they could escape easily. I tied their legs together and then put some tape over their mouths. I then fled outise to count my loot. After a few minutes they managed to work the slip knots loose as I had shown them and untied their legs and took the tape of their mouths.

It seems that the charlies angles game had ended for them know and they turned into Cagney and Lacey and I heard one of them say right we're gonna bust that burgular. I had my back turned outside going through the robbed money and they took me by surprise. I now know what was in the plastic bag that Nicola was carrying it was a police officers kit that her little brother Adam had for his birthday. She had sneaked it out of his bedroom and brought it over.

It contained a police officer's hat a set of toy hancuffts, a badge and a plastic toy police stick. Nicola was wearing the hat and showm me her badge. Claire was holding the handcuffs and the toy stick. They grabbed me and said you are under arrest. You have the right to remain silent. I said uh oh what now. They placed the handcuffs on me behind my back and took my out to the back garden. There was a lockable shed out there that was going to be their jail.

It had a bolt on the outside. Something now tells me that they had this planned. I was locked in the shed with my hands still hancuffed and they left me for a while. I said from inside the shed I want a lawyer. They said keep quiet or you will be in there for even longer. They said the were counting the money to make sure it was all there.

You will pleased to know that I was let out soon afterwards from the sh.. I mean jail on parole for having good behavior and de-hancuffed. Actually there was a knock on the door by a man in a suit and they did not want to answer the door to a stranger themselves. Turned out he was a blooming Jehovas Witness. They said they very much enjoyed the game and also like turning the tables of me this time.