The Hiss and Run.

The usual characters were engaged in a processing activity. Being the first time ,all were on tenterhooks. A flurry of activity could be seen with gentlemen in white coats (scientists) gesticulating and vigorously nodding their heads just outside the process building. Suddenly a hissing noise rented the air and our white coated gentlemen started running in panic. By the time they realized it, they have run a hundred meter dash – panting and fighting for breath.

A figure coolly emerged from the control room and waved to the frightened gentlemen. Slowly one by one picked up on courage and approached the control room, sensing (or was it hoping) that the hissing noise had died down. Anxiousness prompted them to ask “what happened?”

The control room in-charge laconically said “It is nothing. A vacuum hose has given away”.

Sheepish grins appeared in all the faces and with a sense of relief they trudged off to a nearby kiosk for a cuppa.