“Hashi,” I said.
“What?” said Joan, looking up from her Teriyaki chicken.
“In Japan they call them ‘hashi’.”
“Well, you certainly are a font of useful information,” said Joan, barely hiding the sarcasm in her voice.
As I applied my ‘chopsticks’ to a slice of sashimi, someone at the table behind us began to cough.
I looked around as he retched, then started to go red in the face.
Standing up, I grasped both hands around his lower abdomen and thrust upward. He coughed up the bone.
“And that,” I said to Joan. “Is what’s known as the ‘Heimlich maneuver’."
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Raymond G. Taylor
Author living in Kent, England. Writer of short stories and poems in a wide range of genres, forms and styles. A non-fiction writer for 40+ years. Subjects include art, history, science, business, law, and the human condition.
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