Fanis the Bodyguard Episode 10 Hypocrisy and Deception

                Fanis and Kera are in London and need to go to Paris.  Kera is an international Chinese artifact dealer and her cousin Fanis is her body guard.  Paris is a relatively safe city so Fanis is less afraid of Kera getting into any trouble.  Her feminist nature had gotten them in trouble in other less-women friendly places.  Kera is 5’4”, long straight black hair and a proportionally curved body.  Fanis is 6’0” 230 pounds with paler skin than Kera’s olive complexion.  He is bald and husky.  He doesn’t look too intimidating but he is highly trained in martial arts and hand to hand combat.  He doesn’t ask too many questions as to why they’re going where they’re going, but he does like to know how they’re getting there.  He asks, “How are we going to get there?  Train or Plane.”

                “Train”

                “TGV?” Fanis’ voice inflates in excitement, which is odd because he has taken the TGV under the English channel into Paris before. 

                “But of course” Kera says charmingly with a shake of her body to pretend that she’s more bourgeois than she is. 

                Kera was born and raised in New York City and Fanis spent most of his life there therefore, they are both very accustomed to trains.  Kera is looking at her phone and declares, “Oh, look Nike brought back your favorite spokesman”

                Since Kera is a liberal and Fanis is a far-right conservative, he knows that this could only mean that it’s the only Nike spokesman that Fanis has hated.  He confirms it by saying, “Are you kidding?  Kaepernick”

                Kera despises football and couldn’t tell you what team or position Colin Kaepernick played for but Fanis is a huge sports fan.  He’s a little upset that they’re going to Paris during the beginning of Wimbledon because he wanted to go.  When he lived in New York, he went to the US Open almost every year.  She responds, “Yup, apparently they had a sneaker with the original 13 colonies star on it and Kaepernik said he was offended because it referenced a period in America’s time when there were slaves.”

                “I would say this is a stupid idea but when Nike made him a spokesman, sales and their stock went up so apparently conservatives aren’t boycotting like they did with Target and Dick’s Sporting Goods.  Nike knows what they’re doing but when my Nike’s wear out, I’m not replacing them with Nike’s”

                “I’m sure not having your business will cripple their company” Kera rejoins sarcastically 

                “I know but it’s something.”

                “Well, apparently you’re not the only one.”

                “What do you mean?”

                “Arizona was going to have a Nike plant come to their state.  Their governor Doug Ducey has rescinded their tax breaks for Nike to come because of it.  He says that Arizona’s economy is doing just fine without them so no tax breaks for anti-American companies.”
                “I’m conflicted about that”

                Kera shook her hand in disgust, she was hoping that he’d praise it but apparently Fanis picked up on it.  She wasn’t going to give up that easily and asked, “What do you mean?  He’s boycotting just like you”

                “Well, this is the same concept as Amazon coming to New York and AOC dancing that she stopped it.  It creates jobs, it brings money into the community.  I mean I like their reasoning but AOC likes her reasoning of just being generally opposed to big corporations.  I’m generally opposed to anti-American companies.  I’m not that conflicted I guess, I don’t think they’re equivalent but Nike is going to be fine.”

                “I was really hoping you’d forget about the Amazon in Long Island City thing.”

                “No, just you liberals are hypocrites.  I mean Nike had a line of shoes to celebrate the year of the pig and had 12 shoes highlighting the 12 animals that make up years in the Chinese calendar.  So it’s fine to be pro-China but not pro-America?”

                Kera glared at Fanis and narrowed her eyes piercing into him.  She sternly declared, “Yes, because China is one of the oldest civilizations and America is the newest one.  They’ve withstood the test of time; America is still a question mark.”

                “Yes because China is the largest surveillance state in the world.  They are communist and Mao killed 50 million people.” 

In response, Kera slapped Fanis across the face.  He merely retaliated with a smile.  He knows how Kera had devoted her life to Chinese culture despite their Greek heritage so his words were a figurative slap in the face so why not respond with a literal one?  Kera punches some buttons in her phone and realizes that since she brought this up to get a rise out of him, he has turned the tables by getting a rise out of her.  She needs to change it back so she pulls up a picture of kids sleeping behind a chain link fence and shows it to Fanis and articulates, “Your president cages children.”

“First off, China caged non-buddhists.  Second off, they broke the law so when you break the law you get detained in prison cells.  Thirdly, did you see when that picture was taken?”

Kera looks at it but can’t find a time stamp.  Fanis takes out his phone and pulls up the original photo that has the date and shows it to Kera.  It says 2014.  Fanis inquires, “Tell me, who was president in 2014?”

“But….l mean…..it’s just the point.  There is a crisis at the border and kids are being detained…so it doesn’t matter that Obama was…..I mean….okay So Obama may have done it too but that…doesn’t make it right.”

“You sound so sure of yourself.  Tell me if the border facilities are so bad and they are being treated so horribly, how come all the pictures are from Obama’s administration?  If it’s so bad, just take some newer ones from Trump’s administration?”

“You’re saying there’s no crisis at the border?”

“No, I’m saying that Trump takes care of them better than Obama did.  Which is odd because there’s more of them so it should be harder.”

Kera finds another picture and shows it to Fanis.  Fanis gives her a condescending look and says, “First off, they’re watching TV so I’m not too concerned about this one.”

“Kids are still sleeping on the floor and they’re crying”

“Kids sleep on the floor all the time.  I’ve slept on the floor.  In college, my friends would sleep on my dorm room floor.  That’s not inhumane treatment but I want you to look at what they’re watching on TV”

“Kera blows up the TV in the picture and sees ‘Brazilian world cup’ she sighs and says, “Where was last year’s World Cup?”

“Russia”

“Brazil was five years ago?”

“Yup”

“So, once again 2014”

“Yup”

“Fuck you”

“Compelling argument.  Allow me to retort.  If they don’t like their lodgings, they are free to go back to their home country.  They broke the law.  What did you expect?  The Marriott?  Any time they no longer want to sleep on the floor, drink from sinks attached to toilets or be fenced in, they can go back to their home country.”

The TGV pulls into Paris and Kera and Fanis check into the Air BNB in an apartment complex.  They set up their stuff and read the card to see where they’re going to eat.

 

                A floor above two teenage girls are enjoying their first visit to France.   They are both from New Jersey and Patty is more reserved than her best friend Caroline.  Patty has short black hair with a sturdy build whereas Caroline is a platinum blond skinny cheer leader.  She bounces around the apartment ecstatic at one of her first indications of freedom.  She cranks the music on the stereo and dances around the apartment while Patty walks around the apartment checking it out.  Patty is excited too but being in a foreign country for the first time gives her some trepidation that was lost on Caroline.  In order to save costs, they shared a cab with a French guy they met at the airport.  He was charming and nice and had invited them to go out that night.  Caroline turns down the music and exclaims, “Can you believe we’re actually in Paris?!”

                “I know, I can’t wait to see the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower”

                “I can’t wait to fuck a French guy.  They’re so sensual and they really know how to handle a woman’s body.  I’m going to cum so hard”

                Patty nods her head.  She’s not as excited about promiscuous behavior abroad but she’s not exactly opposed to it either.  She nods her head and says, “Ok so site seeing by day and partying by night.  That way we both get what we want.”

                “We both want to do both”

                “No, I know, it’s just you like sex more than I do.”

                “You need to get out of your shell.  I know your dad’s overprotective but that should make you even more willing to break free right now.”

                “Did you hear that Governor Murphy wants to implement a millionaire’s tax?”

                “Why the fuck are you talking about politics now?”

                “Look, if they lower the voting age to 16, we should be informed about this shit.”

                “Well, we live in the good states because we let the undocumented migrants come here and use our state as a sanctuary.”

                “We’ve lost a lot of money from that.  Our economy is collapsing that’s why Murphy wants the tax”

                “Doesn’t matter what he wants.  The Republicans and other Democrats killed it.  They put a budget together that didn’t have the tax and threatened Murphy that if he didn’t sign it, they’d shut down the government.”

                “That’s what killed Christy”

                “No, shutting down the GW (George Washington Bridge to New York) killed Christy not going to a beach when the government was shut down.”

                “See, you pay attention.”

                “Yea, I’m not a moron but I don’t let it stop me from being a teenager and living it up before I have real responsibilities.  Can we just enjoy Europe and not talk about politics?”

                Patty smiled and nodded.  “I’m just going to unpack my shit in one of the bedrooms”

                “Alright, cool”

                Patty went into the back to unpack.  Caroline let her have the larger of the two bedrooms.  Their joyous vacation was about to get very dark.  Three men forced their way into the apartment and Caroline screamed but was muffled by a hand over her mouth.  The problem with being as petite as she was is that men could easily manhandle you.  While the man with his hand over her mouth pulled her upper body back, another man picked up her legs and they carried her out the door that was still open.  Carolina squirmed and managed to bite down on the man’s pinky.  He was wearing gloves but his hand did slip from her mouth and Caroline got a scream of “help” before it was stopped prior to the ‘me’ part.

 

                Fanis was reading while Kera was going over the facts of her artifact that she’d be selling the next day.  She was rehearsing her sales pitch and trying to anticipate any questions that may arise.  Fanis’ head perked up when he heard someone scream.  He walked to the door opening it with his knife cupped in his hand hiding it from view of an onlooker but with the one handed spring assist, it could become a lethal weapon very quickly.  Fanis walked out to two men carrying a girl. He chuckled and said, “Well that doesn’t’ look suspicious” facetiously 

                The man holding her legs dropped them and pulled out a gun and pointed it at Fanis.  Fanis instinctively looked at his finger and when it was just near the trigger, not on the trigger, he knew it was just a bluff.  The man said, “Go back to your room”

                In his peripheral vision, Fanis could see the other man had a knife to a blond girl’s throat.  Fanis took a deep breath and then used his left hand to slap the gun away from his head and brought his right hand up depressing the spring snapping the blade out and locking it in place as Fanis jammed it under the man’s chin and through his jaw.  The gunmen dropped the gun and collapsed to the ground grabbing his mouth and writing in pain.  Fanis picked up the gun and aimed it at the man with the girl.  He stated sternly, “Holding a knife to a girl’s throat only works if the guy you’re threatening cares about the girl.  I don’t know that bitch.”

                The blonde’s eyes widened as she was offended by the comment.  Fanis stomped on the man he stabbed’s back stilling him and said, “You should let her go or else you will join your friend here.  Don’t be a typical French piece of shit and pretend you don’t speak English.  You know what I’m saying.”

                With Caroline being 5’2” and the man holding her 5’9” Fanis had a pretty big target that even if he wasn’t proficient with a firearm, he’d have no problem at this distance.  He noticed the man’s hand shaking and Fanis said “Cinq….Quatte” as he counted down in French.

                He got to zero and shot the man in the shoulder of the hand holding the knife.  Caroline screamed and ran into Fanis wrapping her arms around him.  Fanis didn’t hug back; he tucked the gun into Caroline’s shorts ensuring it was over her underwear since the hot barrel would burn her skin.  It didn’t have the desired effect as Caroline twitched from the unexpected heat against her butt.  Fanis reached into his pocket and pulled out a cell phone and called the police.  As he did, he looked up and saw another man with a brunette struggling as he dragged her down the stairs with her fighting the whole way.  The kidnapper stopped when he saw Fanis and looked down to see Fanis’ leg holding down one of his friends and the other one lying on the ground grabbing his shoulder panting in pain.  Fanis gave him a knowing look and pleaded, “Please, just let the girl go and get out of here.  I already called the cops, they’re on their way.  Get out of her before they get here.”

                The guy shoved the girl forward and hurried past Fanis and ran down the stairs abandoning his friends.  The cops came and questioned the girls and Fanis.  Kera stayed in the room because after the third guy hurried out, Fanis texted Kera to not come out.  He knew there was only one entrance into the apartment but his ears were listening in on shattered glass.  They were on the third floor so it seemed unlikely but Kera didn’t travel with a body guard for nothing.  Fanis was still unsure if these girls weren’t a ploy to separate him from Kera.  Caroline let go of Fanis and walked over to Patty and hugged her as they both started crying.  It didn’t take long for the cops to determine that the guy that shared the cab with them was a lookout for young tourists that were vulnerable to being kidnapped.  Air BNB had made this easier since there was no hotel security to protect tourists now.  When girls were travelling alone and were attractive, the man offered to save costs by sharing a cab so he could find out where they were staying.  If it was an Air BNB, they called it in and that night, someone would come to take them.  The girls were warned to be careful for the remainder of their trip.  Both Caroline and Patty said they would but by their tone it was clear they had no idea how they were going to do that. 

                When the cops showed up, they immediately detained the two men and processed them while other officers stayed behind to interview them.  When they all left, the girls turned to Fanis and thanked him profusely.  Fanis said, “No problem, I suggest you get a hotel.”

                Caroline tensed her shoulders and her voice raised a couple octaves as she smiled and said, “Ummm, can you stay with us?  We’re a little scared”

                “You sound American”

                “We are”

                “Well, I’m a Trump supporter.  You still want to hang out with me?”

                Patty and Caroline both nodded and Caroline actually vocalized it, “Yes, at this point, we don’t really give a shit.”

                “Well, I’m going to dinner so I guess I’ll catch up with you later.”

                Patty blurted out, “We’re hungry too.  I mean we can buy you dinner, it’s the least we can do for saving out lives.”

                “Not necessary” Fanis said matter of factly.

                Fani’s phone vibrated.  He knew it was from Kera so he looked at it and it said, “Go to dinner, keep your ear piece in just in case but I’m pretty sure these little girls are not spies.”

                Apparently Kera was listening.  He always carried an earpiece so that Kera could have her privacy but if something happened, he’d know to come running.  He took it out of his pocket and put it in.  The girls said nothing and he commanded, “Let’s go.  I know a good place around here.”

                They went to dinner and the girls were still shook up.  It was awkward so Patty offered, “Are you worried about Mueller testifying this month?”

                “No, I’m not.  He’s not going to say anything, he’s just going to reference his report and dodge questions.”

                Caroline opined, “Well, the report was pretty damning”

                “Which part? The part that said no collusion?”

                “Well Democrats keep reading it out loud and saying people should listen in.”

                “But you didn’t did you.”

                “Well no, but”

                “Mueller wrote the report to make innocent things seem bad but really he didn’t say anything.  That’s why he couldn’t take it to court.”

                “Like what?”

                “Well he talks a lot about Papadopoulos because they pretend that’s what started the investigation.  He writes about how Papadopoulos, talked to a professor who travelled to Russia.  In Russia, this professor may have talked to Russian intelligence and gotten damaging information about Hillary Clinton.  This professor may release the information before the election to hurt Hillary Clinton thus helping Trump win the election.”

                “Yea, that’s sketchy.”

                “No it’s not, it just sounds sketchy.  I mean how many times can he say ‘might’ or ‘may’ in a paragraph?  To paraphrase, Papadopoulos told Downer that a professor told him he went to Russia and that the Russians may have bad information they would release before the election.”

                “I see no difference.”

                Patty chimed in, “All it really says is that he knows someone that went to Russia and is worried about what the Russians know. Talking with someone that has been to Russia isn’t very damning”

                “Not to mention that it’s hearsay.  I mean he’s saying, ‘I talked to a guy who said he heard from another guy…’ that is the definition of hearsay and not admissible in court.”

                “Alright, but he didn’t lie”

                “He misled, it’s almost just as bad.  He also leaves things out or spends a lot of time saying things that sound bad before negating it at the end.”

                Patty asked, “What do you mean?”

                “I’ll give an example.  Patty and Caroline show up at an apartment complex.  They start screaming.  Fanis goes out to help them.  He finds three men and fights them off.  The girls beg him to go to dinner.  Caroline has a gun on her.  Patty starts talking to Fanis diverting his attention to her.  What do you think of you two now?”

                “You think we set you up?” Caroline articulated in an accusatory matter

                “Not at all but what did I say that was a lie?”

                Patty cried out, “Well nothing but you seem to be saying that we’re going to kill you or something.”

                “Exactly my point.  Now if I ended it with saying, ‘but there’s no reason to believe that Caroline was going to shoot Fanis in the back of the head.’  Do you think that was fair of me to say?”

                Caroline annoying snapped, “You gave me the gun.”

                Patty added, “Why go into all that? it’s just a dinner.  We were really scared so we wanted to be around you.  It was your idea to go to dinner.”

                “Now from the Mueller report.  Keep your thoughts in mind for this.  “Manafort met with Ukrainian National Konstantin Kilimnik.  Kilimnik may be a Russian agent.  We know this because the US intelligence has information dating back several years of Kilimnik meeting with nefarious Russian characters in Russia.  In 2016, Kilimnik flew to New York to meet with Paul Manafort.  After that meeting, Kilimnik wient to Washington D.C. to meet with the State Department but we have no evidence to suggest that the meeting was to collude with Russia to steal the election.”

                Patty and Caroline looked from one another confused.  Patty asked, “Why say all that then?”

                “For the same reason they don’t mention that the FBI asked Kilimnik to meet with the nefarious Russians to report back to them about what they were doing.  It was a surveillance campaign.  Kilimnik was basically a spy for the US.  They left that part out.”

                “So that’s like how you left out that you gave Caroline the gun” Patty explained

                “Right”

Caroline muttered, “So Mueller tried to trick the American people.”
                “Yes and the fake news perpetuate the misleading comments and spins it or just straight up lies to maintain the hoax.  All because they personally don’t like Donald Trump and refuse to accept the results of the election.  Ironically, they accused Trump that he would do that if Hillary won and talked about how horrible he was for doing it if he did.  Then they did it.  But if liberals didn’t have hypocrisy, they wouldn’t be able to speak or be liberals.”

Caroline fired back “We’re both liberals”

“Most college people are.  You’re the best demographic.  You got freedom for the first time in your life.  I mean getting your driver’s license is the first taste of freedom but now you’re living on your own so you’re pretty free.  You don’t have as many bills because loans or your parents pay your big expenses but nobody is telling you that you have to be home at a certain time or to do your homework.  With this newly found freedom, you’re very impressionable so you fall for these verbal tricks.  Don’t worry; some people never grow out of it.  That’s why Democrats come in all ages but they are just people that never wanted to think for themselves.  They like the herd mentality.  They’re cowards to say things people won’t like and are afraid people won’t like them so they go along with the crowd.”

Patty said, “Well, I don’t agree”

                Caroline added, “And we’re not college students”

                “Really?”

                Caroline and Patty smiled at each other asking each other by look if they should tell him.  They turned to him and Patty shyly stated, “We’re high school students”

                “How old are you?”

                “16”

                Fanis chuckled and said, “Well that really proves my point.”

                All three of them laughed and Fanis paid the check and they went back to the apartment.  When they got to Fanis’ apartment, Fanis articulated, “Well, this is me.  Have a good night but I really think you guys should get a hotel.  You never know if they’re going to send more people.”

                “Can you stay with us?” bursted out Caroline

                “No, that’s not appropriate.”

                Caroline leaned into Fanis and put her hands on his chest rubbing it and looked up locking eyes with him with a charming smile.  She flirtatiously intimated, “I’ll make it worth your wild.”

                “I’m not here by myself.  I’m here with a girl who stayed in.”

                Patty crossed her arms and skeptically retorted, “Then why didn’t she come to dinner?”

                “She’s the one that texted me to go to dinner.”

                “Unlikely story.  Look, you paid for dinner, you saved our lives, we need to pay you back somehow”

                Caroline smiled widely as even Patty was hitting on him.  Fanis sternly explained, “You’re 16, I’m 35.  It’s really wrong, I’m more than twice your age.”

                “So what?” Caroline asked

                “It’s illegal, that’s what’s so what and I really am not here alone.  I’m not lying”

                Kera opened the door and walked out and Caroline took her hands off Fanis and backed up holding her hands up in submission.  She pleaded, “Whoa, sorry, I thought he was lying.  Look we didn’t know.  He didn’t do anything.  He was a gentlemen.”

                Patty added, “We’re just scared kids.  I’m sorry”

                Kera smiled and declared, “Don’t be.  He’s my cousin and he needs to get laid.”

                At first Fanis was happy that Kera was saving him but he should have known that she wasn’t.  He smiled and realized he couldn’t use Kera as an excuse.  He turned to her and said, “It’s statutory rape”

                Kera didn’t stop smiling and responded, “Not in France.  No statutory laws here.  You can have a threesome with them all night long and it’s completely legal.  Viva la resistance” as she raised her fist.

                Fanis snapped back in Greek, “What are you doing?”

                Kera answered back in English.  “What am I doing?  I’m trying to get you laid.  These girls want to rock your world.  You should let them.”

                “I may not be in America but I have American values...”  He turned to the girls and said, “Look, right now you’re emotional based on what happened.  If in two years, you still feel like you owe me, which you don’t, then we can talk.”

                “Booo” cried out Kera

                Fanis shook his head and quickly said, “Good night girls” and walked into his apartment.

                Kera stared back at the hurt look on the girls’ faces.  This was actually her intention.  She knew her cousin. There was no way he was going to fuck them but he didn’t want him to let them down gently.  He wanted them to feel self conscious and blame themselves for not being pretty enough.  Kera never stopped smiling and shrugged her shoulders and pronounced as sympathetically as she could, “Sorry, my cousin’s a moron” And went back into the apartment.

                Caroline and Patty went on their phones and found a hotel.  They packed their things and called a cab.  Patty turned to Caroline and brought up, “Should we ask Fanis to wait for the cab with us?”

                “No fuck that asshole.”

                “That asshole saved our lives.  Not fucking us doesn’t make him a bad person.”

                “He clearly doesn’t want to hang out with us anymore.”

                “I just don’t feel comfortable going in a car by myself.  Once we’re out of this apartment, then it’s safer because the guys that tried to kidnap us don’t know where we’re staying anymore.”

                “I’m not going to feel comfortable ever.  I mean yea, no more sharing cabs but Fanis isn’t going to follow us wherever we go.  Like you said, he doesn’t owe us anything.  He helped us.  He’s done with us.  All he wants is for us to leave him alone so let’s just do that.”

                Patty didn’t say anything.  The cab arrived and they took their suitcases down the stairs and got in the cab that drove straight to the hotel. 

 

                Back at the apartment, Fanis scolded, “You know, you didn’t have to break their hearts.  You could have just pretended we were together.”

                “And lie?!” Kera responded with feigned shock and contempt in her voice.

                “It was just mean”

                “No it wasn’t.  I was trying to give them what they wanted.  You were mean.  You turned them down.”

                “I guess you’re right, it’s just they’re 16, that’s just repulsive to me.”

                “Oh I know, I agree but don’t blame me for making you be honest with them.”

                “Fine”

                “So Schumer is against Trump indexing the capital gains to inflation.”

                “That’s not what he said when he was a congressman.  Weird segue by the way”

                “No it’s not, I got a rise out of you by making you break the hearts of two little hoochie teenagers and now I’m getting a rise out of you by attacking your president.  What do you mean about the congressman?”

                Fanis showed her a video of a brown haired younger Schumer when he was a congressman advocating to index the capital gains tax to inflation.  He said it was common sense.”

                “I’m starting to believe you that all the Democrats in office are just against anything that Trump is for.”

                “Only because it’s true.”

                The next day Kera goes to her meeting while Fanis eats a lot.  He believes the food in France is the best in the world so makes sure to get his fill.  The rest of the day goes on without a hitch and the following day, Kera and Fanis take the TGV back to London.  Kera is reading on her phone and exclaims, “You know, liberals are just getting weird now.  I think I’ll call myself a pre-Trump liberal”

                Fanis laughed and stated, “Well I agree but what brought this on?”

                “There’s an article complaining about men who always complement their wives.  It calls them ‘wife guys’ but like what’s wrong with that?  Men should respect their wives.  Kind of weird if they didn’t.  And yea they talk about them a lot but they live with them.  They presumably spend a shitload of time with them so it makes sense they would talk about them.”

                “And they love them so they’re constantly on their minds.  I talk about my close friends because I think of them.  So, yea it makes sense”

                “Why do you think they have a problem with it?”

                “It’s an insidious ploy to take down the family.  They are anti-family, anti-marriage and anti-women they just cover it up by calling themselves feminists but the feminist movement has hurt women.  Like all liberals, it’s a contradiction because they complained in 2016 that women say ‘husband’ on Facebook more than men say ‘wife.’”

                “So, if they talk about them, they suck and if they don’t talk about them, they suck”

                “Welcome to being a guy.  Everything we do and say is wrong.”

                “I mean neither one of us wants to get married but we both have a problem with this.  If we have a problem, why do people support it?  I would think we’d be the ones to support it.”

                “Liberals want government to be the moral authority.  Families refute what government tries to teach.  They want to be the parents.  In order to do that, they have to destroy the family so that people turn to the government.  You and I don’t want a family because of personal preference.  We don’t have a problem with other people getting married or having families.”

                “I’m not sure if it’s that diabolical”

                “Do you have another suggestion?”

                “No, but I’ll think about it.”

                By the time Fanis and Kera returned to their flat in London, she had yet to come up with a counter example.  She simply ignored the topic.