Thursday, May 28, 2009

The strange case of the villain with narcolepsy

Hana’s friend Krista lives on a house boat on the Nile river in Cairo.  A few mornings ago, she woke up to find things a bit different in her home.  There were some items displaced onto the couch and a pair of men’s shoes in a side room.  Odd.  Then, she walked into her kitchen for morning tea, and found a man sleeping on the kitchen counter.  She went to get the property manager, who immediately ran across the street to get a friend.  Together, they put the sleeping stranger on the ground and tied him with a rope, all without him waking up.

Upon further examination, Krista found that the man was wearing her necklace.

When the stranger finally woke up, the two property managers asked him how he had entered the apartment.  He said “min el ba7r…yalla hop” (from the river, let’s go….hop!).

So this clever villain floated up on a houseboat in the night, and hopped in.  He took off his shoes, then looked around, rearranging nick-nacks here and there until he found a particularly nice necklace.  Putting it on, he somehow fell asleep on the kitchen counter, and awoke to find himself bound on the floor.