The sound of a beer can being opened next to one’s ear usually grabs one’s attention. Especially when the accompanying ice-cold spray shoots directly into said ear.
Noddy shot upright, rolling to his left. Fortunately, this meant he avoided smacking his face against the vicious-looking contraption hanging just above his sleeping head. Unfortunately, it meant he fell off the edge of the pool table and landed unceremoniously on the floor of Valhalla. The nightclub, not the mythological Viking hall.
Roars of laughter showed that his acrobatics had been positively received by an appreciative audience. And when the cold beer was pressed into his hand, he shook his head and managed to focus on the source of the hilarity.
“Told you he’d miss the light-shade.” Dirk took his winnings from one of the bouncers. “Thought you were dead, old son.”
Noddy’s head and stomach pointed out, in no uncertain terms, that they wished this was the case. Noddy ignored their screams of protest and used the edge of the pool table to push himself to his feet. It goes without saying that he didn’t spill a drop of his liquid breakfast.
Dirk pointed to a bundle wrapped in tin-foil, sitting lonely on top of the bar. “I didn’t make that,” was his only comment. “Make sure the door locks behind you when you leave. Some of us have shit to do, make out?”
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