Bad Machinery by John Allison for July 12, 2021

From Wiktionary:

scarper (third-person singular simple present scarpers, present participle scarpering, simple past and past participle scarpered)

(Britain, slang) To run away; to flee; to escape.

TOTAL FAILURE! But I’m with Erin. That was AWESOME!!!!!!

Just another day in a sleepy English town?

When I suggested a few days back that the pub would burn after this, I’d forgotten I was actually right about that. :P

Four of the Mystery Kids seem terrified by what has transpired, but Colm seems rather pleased by it.

Moral: Do not take romantic advice from snarky teen age girls.

Scarper, another word I had to look up. If me and my brothers lived in U K in our younger days, we would’ve been saying that occasionally.

Just a normal day at the corner pub.

Well, that went pretty much as expected.

Scarpering is a serious matter and is not to be titted about with.