Officer, I assure you that I hadn’t planned on becoming a victim at the bank when I got up this morning. Just because I was the only one to have survived out of the ten people who were in the bank at the time. It’s not my fault the others were shot and I was spared. I’m sorry for the families of the dead people but you must realize that I can’t but help celebrate my lucky escape.
I’ve given you every skerrick of information I have. You kept me at the police station for over five hours. And now I just want to go home. I’m as shocked as anyone about the whole affair. It has frightened the living daylights out of me. I need to go home now and try and relax.
It’s not my fault that Teddy Morgan and the other bank robbers got away. I was simply in the bank to take out some money, and then all hell broke loose. Now can I please leave? You have my address if you need anything else.
What’s that? How did I know his name was Teddy Morgan? Um…
Weave a Web 
A real slip of the tongue! I think he’ll be at the police station a bit longer…
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Yes! I think he let the cat out of the bag!
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Out of the frying pan and into the fire you go!
What a wonderful word – skerrick – I have never seen or heard this before, but it’s meaning is immediately clear 🙂
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Gosh – it’s interesting the words people know and don’t know. In my useable vocab “skerrick” appears not infrequently! Although I see typing this that WP doesn’t like the word!
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hmmm skerrick – (plural skerricks) (now chiefly Australia, New Zealand) A very small amount or portion, particularly used in the negative.
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Excellent research there Max!
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LOL…
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He could have claimed to be psychic.
“Officer, I’m sensing a sudden jump in suspicion of me…. Ommm….”
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That’s why they keep people waiting for 5 hours!
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Ooopsy!
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Oops! is right!
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I checked out skerrick, my iPad didn’t have the skerrickest idea about the word. I bet it’s the favourite word of robbers like Teddy Morgan. You can’t of course ask me how did I too know his name.
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You’re a natural-born user of the word skerrick, Uma. I had no idea the word would cause such wonderment with the readers. I would use the word every second day!
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This might actually work if you’re a little more careful. I wonder if any bank robber has actually tried this (without fumbling, of course) and gotten away with the crime. It’s the stuff of movies though.
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Yes – a movie wouldn’t spill the beans so soon!
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They wore him down at the end!
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Apparently it’s not an uncommon technique.
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Bank robbers typically wear nametags, don’t they? Or use personalized license plates on their getaway cars? There are plenty of possible explanations. Or just because a victim recognizes a criminal from a Sunday school class twenty years ago, doesn’t mean the victim was in cahoots with the criminals. Maybe.
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Who needs name tags these days when they get let off immediately!
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Good point.
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