“Just the usual, tell him.”
“Ayr says ‘just the usual’… you don’t know what that is? It’s a huge needle of something - I don’t know what, tonic or antibiotics, in the bum and five or six strips of ten tablets that will cure most other conditions. They give it to everyone for anything minor, I’ve never known it fail. It’s perked Nong up too… Yes, OK, Kurt, I’ll tell her, see you soon. Don’t worry.”
“He says he’ll be here in fifteen minutes, Nong,” he said in Thai.
When Kurt did arrive, less than fifteen minutes later, he was travelling too fast as he swung up onto the forecourt, causing the vehicle’s front skirt to hit the concrete with a crash and splinter into fragments. Then the driver’s side front wing shook and fell off. He parked up after a fashion, jumped out and ran over to Nong.
