John Hills sat at his office desk twiddling his thumbs and fidgeting.  He was finding it hard to concentrate on anything this morning.  The reason was that he had lost his luck mascot, namely, a small model of a brown grizzly bear.  It was something he had treasured since his childhood and over the years, he had preserved it carefully up into adulthood when he looked upon it with great pride and since he started this job, he had brought it in everyday and placed it in his coat pocket.  It was his lucky charm.  He recalled how his mother had bought it for him back in the mid-sixties.  As colleagues passed by his desk to say hello or ask him things, he tried his best to try and smile but the tension was clearly mounting on his face.  Suddenly as the phone rang, he jumped and held his chest with his right hand.  Colleagues noticed this and some of them grinned.

     “Hello, Sales Advisers Ltd,  this is John Hills, how may I help you?”  He said in an anxious voice.

     “John, it’s your wife, Kitty.  Listen, I looked everywhere for your toy but I just could not find it, love.”

     “Shh!!  – Look, please for heaven’s sake, Kitty, talk in a low voice.  Everyone can hear and also for your kind information, it is NOT a toy!”  “It’s my lucky mascot.”

     “Yes yes,  Replied Kitty.  “the one one you’ve treasured since you were a child.  God knows how many times I’ve heard that story.”

     “Listen Kitty, there’s one place you may find it.  Go to my cabinet and look in the bottom drawer.  You see where the Humpty Dumpty jigsaw puzzle is?  Well, there’s a fraction of a chance that you’ll find it there.”

     “Alright, I’ll look just this once and then I have to go out shopping then do some cooking.”

     Suddenly, John heard a burst of laughter and slammed the phone down abruptly.  He swung his chair around to see Frank Scuttle, his colleague crouched in a fit of laughter.