Mickey Joins the
Bowling Club
by John Peterson
Every year
John would be caught hook line and sinker on
April fool’s day and his main protagonist
was his sister’s boyfriend Mickey.
Mickey Ryder
was a man who led a colourful life, he lived life
on the edge of normal society and made his living
from wheeling and dealing. He was a man with a
sharp brain and knew how to make money. He always
brokered deals to make money but not all of his
businesses were totally legal.
Some were,
like his indoor market stall called “Scallywags”
selling children’s clothes at a market in
Liverpool. Mickey was a likeable sort of rogue
putting who possessed a sharp brain and a good
sense of humour which helped in his deal making.
He liked to play tricks on his girlfriend’s
brother John.
Mickey always
got John on or near April fool’s day and
sometime taking days to set up the prank. Like
the time he advertised John’s car, which was
a pristine Ford Capri and John’s pride and
joy. Mickey had phoned the local newspaper
pretending to be John and advertised his Capri at
a ridiculously low price in the free adverts
section. John’s mobile phone rang constantly
by potential buyers for days on end, driving John
insane.
John decided
to get his own back and for this particular April
fool’s Day he carefully planned his revenge
on Mickey down to the very last detail.
Mickey lived
with John’s sister in a second floor flat
and they backed on to a small park. The park
contained a couple of football pitches and a
small building for the player to get changed in,
as well as a bowling club situated in one corner
which was surrounded by small trees and bushes
and it had a five foot metal fence around the
perimeter.
John went on
the offensive, he knew Mickey liked to sleep in
late, so he rang the phone at his sister’s
flat at 8am and his sister answered. In a
disguised telephone voice and with an air of
authority he introduced himself as Detective
Inspector Simon Moore of Merseyside Police and
said he’d been asked to contact Mr Michael
Ryder by Merseyside trading standards in
connection with a local trading crime. His sister,
answered the phone, said she would fetch Mickey
to the phone. John could hear his sister
explaining to Mickey that the police were on the
phone asking for him, after a short while, the
phone line went dead!
John tried
unsuccessfully to ring back to explain it was an
April fool’s Prank. Eventually he managed to
get through and his sister answered. He asked to
speak to Mickey but she told him that Mickey had
fled the flat using the fire escape dressed only
in his underpants. He’d scaling the railings
and was now hiding in the bowling green cowering
behind some bushes, still in his underpants.
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