Thriller

Alonzo received another email stating that he should deoxify his phone as soon as possible, which is a process for neutralizing the capacitors in a phone that could be hijacked and used by the government for advanced spying tactics. Or, so he was told.

He was instructed to first, wrap his phone in aluminum foil to prevent the government from detecting that he was about to deoxify. Second, he was to place his phone in a microwave for 30 seconds to perform deoxification.

He found a piece of foil from his hat collection and wrapped up the flip phone. Now, I knew that Alonzo began to put more trust in AFF’s instructions. What I did not plan for was that Alonzo was about to use the microwave at the store down the street instead of his own. He stepped out the door. It was night time. He began to hum his favorite Michael Jackson tune, Thriller. Then soon found himself at the Quick Stop. He walked in and found the section where he could prepare himself a hot dog or hamburger. He opened the microwave that set in front of him and placed his wrapped flip phone inside and hit the 30 second button. Just as soon as he hit the button he became aware of a suspicious acting individual that just walked in the store. No one else seemed to notice but he did immediately. He noticed the man walk to the front register and then… POP! Went the microwave in front of him. Alonzo reached up and popped the door open to prevent anymore loud noises. Except...It seemed to startle our suspicious guy. He recoiled at the sound and instinctively pulled the gun from inside his jacket. Realizing that he is now committed to his crime after brandishing his weapon he unloads a round into the ceiling and said, “Everybody freeze!”

“Ah,” Alonzo thinks to himself. “It’s the ole, Everybody Freeze scenario.”

The suspicious man now turned robber pointed his gun at the man behind the counter and said, “Give me all the money!”

While waiting for his money and still a little startled from the POP noise that the robber heard he turned his attention toward Alonzo. He pointed his gun in Alonzo’s direction and demanded, “Now what was it exactly that you were doing that made all that noise?”

Alonzo opened the microwave door wide enough for him to look in and said, “i was deoxifying my phone.”

The robber peered in and began to say, “Do what?” But, he didn’t make it that far. His face made the shape that one makes when saying the word ‘Do,’ but the shape of his face suddenly changed after that because Alonzo’s knuckles connected to the magic spot on the man’s jaw that when one is punched there at the correct velocity the victim’s head will jerk just right knocking him out cold. And yes, his victim was knocked out cold.

There were a few customers in the store when the gun went off and they took the opportunity to scurry to the front door. Two men were tending the store, both Korean. One that was sweeping the store brought his broom over and began beating the already unconscious man with the stick end of the broom and the man behind the counter retrieved a baseball bat and joined in on his partners activities.

With all the panic going on in the store, Alonzo calmly grabbed a wad of paper towels and retrieved his phone from the microwave and without notice made his way out the door and back to his house contemplating what happened to his phone and what could have went wrong with the deoxification. However, his trouble with his phone just took a back seat. Once he entered his house he could see on his monitor that he just received another email.