FINALLY we head for the tills. FINALLY he's done inspecting every bleeding individual fruit and each individual vegetable in the entire store. FINALLY we get to queue up. My GOD I thought I was going to DIE in this shop. And not all exploded either. Well at first I thought I was going to die by getting all exploded, but that passed pretty quickly once I saw how this man shops. He's nuts. NEXT I thought I must be going to die of boredom. And THEN I thought I might die of old age. Seriously. The guy inspected each INDIVIDUAL GRAPE! And he calls me mad. I've sneakily opened the package of cookies and eaten three in self-defence. As we join a line I pull another one out.

"Ciel bleu," he says, seeing me, but lucky for him he doesn't make a big thing out of it. I'm about at the end of my tether and there's really no telling what I'll do. He probably doesn't want to be in another scene. His eye is all puffy and the swelling is turning slowly yellow and purple. Every time I see it I need to eat a cookie. It looks sore.

I take another cookie. He makes a noise and looks away from me, which is good because it means I can't see his eye.

We push the trolly out into the daylight and I blink in surprise. It's like when you go to a movie in the middle of the day, it's always surprising when you come out and it's light outside. We cross over to the car and start loading up the stuff in the back, we've almost done when I look up and see Mick and Sean coming towards us across the car park. Mick locks eyes with me and I clutch the bag I'm holding to my chest. He looks pissed.

"Um," I say and Sean puts a finger over his lips.

Even as they come towards us I hear a little clunk close by and see a car door open behind them. Ororo Munroe and Mr Logan are getting out of a car just across and to the left of us. "Oh shit," I breathe and duck as Mick aims a gun right at me and pulls the trigger.