Serendipity – Account

The instructions were simple and written clearly, in bold, on the note that I intended to pass to the cashier:

Do not raise the alarm
Remain calm
Completely fill the bag with unmarked notes
Do not move until I have left the building

I read through them again carefully. Clear, concise and unambiguous… but it seemed to me there was something missing.

I frowned and chewed thoughtfully on the end of my pen while I thought it through, and then it came to me, at last – the one vital instruction that I’d completely forgotten to add:

Please close my account.