Mercedes Pinzolas

A difficult day

Anna had a very special reason for getting up early the next day, so she set the alarm for 5 am., but when the alarm went off, she had already woken up and was thinking about all things she need to do before going to the bank. She had been working as a bank clerk until her first son was born. She felt so excitement and nervous because of her back to the work after her maternity leave, that is why she did not sleep well.

She got up and first of all, she glanced at her baby who was sleeping peacefully in his cot, then she had a quiet shower. Next, she had breakfast while had a look at the newspaper. In the end, she took the food out of the freezer to her son and babysitter's lunch and tried to finish the housework.

At last, she went to her job at around seven o'clock to what it seemed to be a quiet working day. At the bank after being greeted by all her workmates and asking about her baby, she sat down at the window and started working. There were five or six customers waiting in the queue when a man dressed all in black and wearing a balaclava and a gun broke into the bank and shouted:

Everybody keeps cool, this is a robbery!!!!!.

Everyone started screaming and the robber fired a shot into the ceiling and shouted: Get down!!!! and everybody obeyed his without question. Then, the robber approached Anna's window and with his gun pointing to her head demanded money. She quickly gave him all the money then he put it in a holdall. Next, a second man, who was leaning out the door, shouted: Come on, let's go!!!!. and the robbers got away on a big motorbike.

The entire robbery lasted just over two minutes and thank God that nobody was injured, but Anna was so shocked that her boss told her to come back home and take the day off. It has been a too tough return to work.