Pet shimmied up to the front of where he suspected Busy Busbar's ears would be. "Murderer..." he whispered.
"Yes?" asked Jack politely from the back of the bus. He was wearing a conspicuous yellow raincoat in which he hid his knives.
Pet surveyed the stock exchange and sold a large portion of jelly beans before presenting Jack with the most difficult question he has faced in his entire life: "Fancy some strawberries?"
Jack was taken aback, surprised, dumbfounded and in need of a new pair of glasses.
Pet noticed this and waved his question away into a painting with a humorously oversized plastic hand. "Put me down!" it shrieked and slapped Pet in the face.
The hand dropped to the floor whilst Pet blinked and accidentally winked at Jack.
"Aha, you'd like to buy some of my knives?" Jack said knowingly and skipped happily to Pet's immediate vicinity.
"Who are you?" demanded Pet, unknowingly.
"Jack The Rip— er, just call me Jack."
But it was too late. Busy Busbar's intercom system announced that the red alert system was broken, and that they'd have to all start yelling manically to compensate.
"Aaaargh!" yelled the oversized plastic hand and tried to point at Jack, but Pet was standing on his finely polished nails.
"I told you I don't have any pennies!" screamed Pet at the crazed hand, and waved at it repeatedly with both of his own hands.
"Oh, okay."
Suddenly, but not too suddenly, Jack pressed a stop button that had 'Wheeee!' written all over it. The floor of Busy Busbar vanished and soon Pet and Jack were falling towards The Great Hammock in the Sky.
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