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From behind her she heard a hoarse whisper. “Lady, we’re being robbed. Get on the floor.” She turned to see a man, dressed in a white lab coat, acting like a doormat. Aunt Hazel figured this was all part of an elaborate Halloween joke. She was not in any mood to be teased. “Of course we are being robbed,” she replied, “this is a pharmacy. Everyone is being robbed. That is what pharmaceutical companies do.” “No, lady,” he countered. “We are really getting robbed.” Aunt Hazel looked at him with his white lab coat and pursed her lips. “If you are going to pretend you are getting robbed, don’t you think you should be dressed like a customer and not a pharmacist?” Before he had a chance to reply, a teenager wielding a gun appeared. “Lady, get on the floor!” he demanded. Aunt Hazel thought this Halloween joke was being carried just a little too far. “Don’t you be 11