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<p style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By Andy Griffiths</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">         I’m in the supermarket trying to remember what groceries Mom wanted me to pick up, but I can’t think.  I can’t breathe.  I can’t do anything.  I’m bursting.  And I don’t mean bursting.  I mean BURSTING!</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 31.5pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’ve got to find a toilet.  Fast.  Then I can come back and think about the shopping with a clear head.  Or not so much a clear head as an empty bladder.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 31.5pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I haven’t got a second to lose.  I run down the aisle and skid around the corner.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 31.5pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WHAM!</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 31.5pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Straight into an old guy with a walker.  He staggers forward and crashes into a stack of cans. They go rolling all over the floor.  The old man is lying in the middle of them.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 31.5pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Well, don’t just stand there,” he says.  “Help me up!”</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 31.5pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I reach down, take hold of his hand, and pull him to his feet.  Luckily, he’s not very heavy.  I stand his walker up for him.  He’s muttering words I don’t understand.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 31.5pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The store manager appears.  I can tell he’s the store manager because his pants are too tight.  Plus he’s wearing a badge that says STORE MANAGER.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 31.5pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“What happened?” he says.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 31.5pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“This silly young boy knocked me over.  It wouldn’t have happened in my day.  When I was young, we respected our elders.”</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 31.5pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“It was an accident!” I say.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 31.5pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Were you running?” says the store manager.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 31.5pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Yes,” I say, “but I’m…”</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 31.5pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“There’s no excuse,” he says.  “I think you owe this gentleman an apology.  Then you can pick up all the cans.”</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 31.5pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“But I’m bursting!”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">         “You should have thought about that before you started knocking people over and destroying my displays,” he says.</span></span></p>
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