He was part of an international investigation agency.
With operations in a number of countries, with several branches in each, and literally hundreds of agents working investigations, just like him; but he often wondered about where all the glamour had gone! Here he was, parked across the road from yet another citizen being put under the microscope. He hated these stake-out and tailing jobs. Most of them were dead boring. He seemed to be getting far more than his fair share of late. The buzz was that this was a case with international repercussions, and for that reason alone there was more than the usual sense of hush-hush about it all. He flicked through the paperwork again. They never got told much. She was in her fifties, married with kids, worked in a pharmacy in town, and went to Macramé classes twice a week. As this was his second week on the case, his reports had confirmed her class attendance and her work hours.
At first, absolutely nothing happened, after tailing her from dawn to dusk, day after day. Not until the Tuesday of the third week, when there was an unexpected change in her movements. She left the shop at lunchtime as usual, but took a different route. Instead of walking the short distance to the café where she would regularly have lunch, sometimes meeting up with a friend, she turned a different way out of the building. He was across the road, watching her reflection in a shop window. As she approached a bus-stop, he felt a mild panic. He would have to make a dash for the car and follow the bus if that happened.
To his relief, she walked past the stop. Using a safety crossing, she crossed to his side of the street. She turned and continued in the same direction, away from him. He began to tail on foot. She had walked three blocks before turning right, down a side road and passed a row of shops. He watched as she entered one. Positioning himself on the opposite side and a little further along, he could see that it was a small bakery. A few minutes went by before she emerged with a bag and retraced her route to the pharmacy, A short while later, she came back out and made her way, as usual, to the café for lunch.
This sudden, unexpected change in her behaviour gave him the sense that what he was doing might actually be worthwhile. He had no idea how significant it was, but called his handler with an interim update. The man back at the agency was also intrigued, saying he would look into the shop she visited and have another operative run a check on it.
Later that afternoon he received an urgent call from his handler, setting up a meeting at their usual spot, a small park on the edge of town. Maybe, this was the breakthrough that his agency had hoped for. He had no idea what the consequences of his information had; he rarely did. Just knowing that his contribution was recognised as valuable was enough.
They met as arranged; but his handler didn’t look happy.
He had two bits of news.
The first was the fact that she went to that particular bakery to buy a couple of pork pies for her husband, because it’s the only place in town that sell them.
The second item being that the original paperwork for the assignment contained a typo, and he had been given the wrong address!
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