Summary: Sherlock goes to the grocery store.
Tesco. What am I doing at Tesco? Oh yes, Ms Hudson, she kicked me out of MY flat to do a thorough cleaning and ordered me to get food. Boring. I was watching a movie, I wasn’t wasting my time. It was the twentieth playing of that ‘Cast Away’ DVD that John forgot in Baker Street, but who's counting? Not me. And I am not obtuse, I can see the irony of watching a movie about a man who is so alone that he stops shaving and is becoming mad! But you must admire his dedication!
He was slowly wandering down the aisles, looking but not seeing a thing. Produce, crisps, nuts, cakes, juice, cereals, beans, biscuits, bread… Cereal, yes, I think I can do cereal… He ends up at the front with a nearly empty basket and slowly places the few things on the counter: gingernuts, tea, Bakewell tarts, a box of cereals and milk.
The lady smiles warmly at Sherlock as if she understood that he was utterly lost.
Recovering from the trance he had fallen into, he sees something that finally caught his eye and asks softly, “One of those, please.”
And just like that, Sherlock Holmes walks home with a bag of groceries and an orange balloon...
I always asked myself were John took that balloon, it must have been in the flat already, right?
If you are super-enthusiast and don’t want to wait to read the 221 ‘221b’ in that series in order: The sum of their secrets
