I was very fortunate to see Bill Bryson in person at a live interview about a year ago. Believe it or not, it was at a Microsoft conference! Anyway, it was his casual wit and his obvious intelligence that made me miss his Notes from a Small Island. And I decided to pick up its sequel. That was about 5 months ago. And the gag about the John Lewis shopping experience.

Write and Publish Your Posts HERE. This a short comedy I wrote during the weekend. It is told from the perspective of different witnesses and participants. I do hope you enjoy it. I had just resumed my shift when I saw a strange man walk in. He stood for a while as if searching for an empty seat in the bar. He walked over to a table, knocked off the reserved marker and he pulled out a seat for himself.