“Kapun maak ka, puan dee phom… bia free – Thank you very much, my good friends… a free beer.”
“What happened, guys?” asked Ayr.
“Cheers, Nong! I don’t know, Ayr, Murray and I were sitting here talking about… well, just talking, and the fire alarm went off. Murray rushed inside and took charge. Gail was fantastic as well. We shut the electric off, dragged Nong out, and phoned you. That’s all we know. Oh and Nong said she’d had an electric shock. Doesn’t she know what happened before that?”
“She said that she put her lunch in the microwave for two minutes and went to get a Smoothie to drink with it. Then she went to the loo, and when she came back there was smoke pouring out of the machine. She ran over to it, carrying the Smoothie, stubbed her toe on the counter, threw her drink over t
