"So the cook assaulted the guy because he said his soup was too salty? That's the whole gist?" I asked Michael who asked for a refill at the bar while telling me some of the cases that he heard about or worked on during his career.
"Yep", he replied, "that's pretty much it." It was strange talking about these things that you hear about in sensationalist forms but rather as a part of a day's work. The craziest things I might have heard came from Flora Kate walking about her work in the local secondary school. The stuff kids get up to there is mental.
"So what about you", Michael asked looking at me with a gleam in his eyes. He looked so much calmer now, less uptight, I didn't know how much of that was him getting to know me better or the alcohol which to be honest he had had a lot of.
