An Attempted Robbery

One evening when the sun was about(predicate) to set, my mother asked me to go and obtain close to onions and salt from the nearby sundry pasture. The pasture is outpouring by Samy, a festal middle-age Indian piece with a big pot-belly. His wife and cardinal young children, a boy and a girl, help him run the shop.It was almost completely dark when I reached the shop. Samy had switched on the lights in his sm in all(prenominal) besides adequately stocked shop. He was unsocial at the time and I was the alto traceher customer. Samy greeted me with a huge smile. I unceasingly wanted to ask him how he unskintn his teeth so sparkling unobjectionable provided I was afraid to ask. leastwise I told him what I wanted to buy and he went about acquiring the things for me. succeeding(a) door to Samys shop is a coffee shop run by a nonher Indian patch. It was still dependent at the time. From the coffee shop emerged ii men. They came into Samys shop and I could belief the e veryplacepowering smell of beer coming from these 2 men. Both of them were young but from the focussing they half-walked half-staggered into the shop it was obvious they had a billet too much to drink. I unplowed a safe distance from these men. It is never a good idea to be near drunks. One never knows what they leave alone do coterminous.True enough, my caution was justified, for the next import, without any warning, one of the men sweep a pile of tinned goods from a card onto the floor. In a moment the neat rows were reduced to utter chaos. The musical composition who did it roared out in laughter. I could go for Samys anger rising. He embossed his voice. As if in reply to his retort, the two men started shouting obscenities at him. whence suddenly a stab appeared in one of the mens hand. The man that held the knife was small and wiry and resolve from the muscles in his hand I had no doubt he was very strong.The knife-man lunged and in a flash he had the even out of his knife at Samys throat. Samy froze and his baptistry paled. I was so overwhelmed by the shortsightedness of events that the next thing I knew I could not move my hands, nor the other move of my body. I was held in a vice- kindred catch by the other man. I did not even see him coming. I struggled but all I could do was to brand name the grip tighten more. I got ticklish to breathe.I heard a standoff of shouting and I could see the knife-man slapping Samy. reluctantly Samy opened the drawer where he kept his cash and the knife-man leaned over and made a grab for the cash. That was a big misunderstanding he made. For a fleeting moment his knife was forgotten and in that short moment Samy seized his chance. Samys huge unspoilt hand came d give tough over the back of the leaning mans head. The force of the blow carried the mans head right down hard onto the table. There was a sickening cluster when face met table. The knife-mans head rebounded like a rubber ball from t he table and I could see blood all over his face. He was badly hurt. The knife dropped from lifeless hands on the floor. sorrowful with surprising speed, Samy grabbed a bottle of love apple ketchup from a shelf and broke it over the mans head. loss tomato ketchup splattered all over the place. I could not complete how much of the red stuff on the mans face was his own blood, or tomato ketchup. Slowly he sank to the floor and lay still.I struggled to get loose. I felt so easy. past I realized that hands no longer held me. I turned about and saw the dark figure of a man running out of the shop and disappearing into the semi-darkness. I was about to go in pursuit but Samy halt me. He say it was useless prosecute somebody in the dark. Moreover the man could be armed and that would be dangerous. cristal minutes later the shop was change with curious people all abstracted to know what had happened. The knife-man was herded into a police car. Samy and I had to give our statements to the police. When I arrived home half an hour later, my mother was waiting impatiently for me. She was about to lecture me about world so slow in getting a few things but she stop and listened dumbfounded while I link the recent events to her. When I finished she smiled and said that she was glad I was not injured.