Frustration

The pair ran to the docks, their feet splashing in the shallow puddles as they headed for the large open-sided warehouse that stood adjacent to the wharf. Once inside, they paused to catch their breath as they stood under the corrugated roof, that rattled with the sound of the rain. The tall, battered concrete pillars offered no resistance to the squally weather outside, but they didn't care about the weather, something much more important was at stake tonight.

Looking towards the centre of the large structure they saw the boxes stacked high, almost touching the underside of the roof. They knew what they had to do, and they knew that time was against them. Without speaking a word they nodded at each other and stood either side of the mountain of cardboard boxes.

"It's got to be in here somewhere, it should be in a hidden compartment at the bottom of one of the boxes under the company logo. You'll have to slice off the logo to get to it." The woman said, as she threw a craft knife to her partner. He caught it with ease, slid out the blade, locked it into position and picked up the first box. Looking up at the pile of boxes in front of him, he knew this was going to take a while, but time was a luxury that they didn't have.

All the boxes contained a large moulded resin statue of an elephant, but they knew that one of them also contained the prize that they had to find. Frantically, they each pulled down the boxes one by one, and cut open the secret panel under the red company logo. So far all of them had been empty. After each one they opened and discovered to be empty, they tossed the boxes towards the outside of the warehouse. Thy had opened about half the boxes between them now and were surrounded by discarded boxes as the rain now hammered on the flimsy metal roof.

Nearly an hour had passed now, and time was running out. The growing frustration was building inside of them, as one by one each box denied them of small object they were trying to find. They were spurred on by the fact that only twelve more boxes remained. "Of course you know that it's bound to be the very last box we get to don't you?" The man snapped. "It's the law of sod coming into play once again!"

"Stop moaning and just keep opening them will you, we're nearly done" The woman replied.

Before long, they were both holding the last two boxes. They stood in front of each other and paused, they both knew that their goal was in sight. The man flipped over the box and sawed at the logo with what was left of his blade, he pulled off the card and peered inside the small compartment. Nothing. Meanwhile the woman had just finished cutting open the logo on the last remaining box, she lifted the box and carefully pulled back the small square of cardboard. "Woah" she said as she peered inside, her eyes wide with wonder "You're not going to believe what it is" she said as she slowly turned the bottom of the box to face her companion . . .

"BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP"

And that my friends, was when my alarm went off this morning, disturbing my dream which I was having! SO ANNOYING isn't it!! Now I'll never know what was in the box and why me and the Divine Mrs T needed it so badly!! Grrrrrr stupid annoying dreams! It really must be The Tuesday mustn't it!