When I closed my eyes I heard the voices, the sharp thwack of the bullet hitting the roof of the ambulance, the echo of the shot, the siren, the siren, the siren.
Is it Julia Child or Martha Stewart in perfectly pressed aprons, merrily marinating a chicken or the chops and thwacks of the high-pressure kitchen in the TV show " The Bear" ?
In the First World War, lethargic Germans on the front line often learned this the hard way when their beauty sleep was abruptly disrupted by either a thwack to the head, a stab to the chest or a grenade to the face.