THE SAME MAN

‘Did you see the glass’s been broken again?’ he said.
‘Again?’ I said.
‘Yes. You know it was done on Saturday last?’
‘Yes,’ I said. ‘I got back just after he’d finished and they’d got him in the back of the police car.’
‘Well, you know, they patched it up with that plastic?’
‘Yes. I saw it getting done Sunday morning.’
‘Well he did it again,’ he said.
‘The same man?’
‘They repaired some of the windows and he smashed them again from the fourth floor down.’
‘He did it from the tenth on Saturday,’ I said. ‘That’s what I saw from the outside, you know, from the bottom.’
‘Well, he did it from the fourth floor this time,’ he said.
‘Maybe he’s losing heart,’ I said.
‘They should lock him up.’
‘He should try harder.’