Better Not Beado

Several passengers come to the aid of the girlfriend, who has fallen backwards.

Are you okay?

Yes I think so, says the girlfriend, sitting up in the aisle.

What happened? asks the flight attendant. 

She has stopped pouring tea.

Slipped on something, says the girfriend.

Any idea what it was? asks the flight attendant. Was it slippery?

Not smeary-slippery, says the girlfriend. More like wheely-slippery.

The worst sort of slippery, says the flight attendant. I'll ask for the the help of the passengers.

She addresses the passengers in the accident's vicinity.

Would you all mind looking under your seats and in the adjacent aisle area for a small round object?

It's a wheel! says Terence, who is in the vicinity.

Not necessarily, says the flight attendant. It could be a beado.

Better not be, says Terence. 

Moniques's father has spotted the wheel which has rolled out from under the trolley and stopped next to his foot.

I have it! says Monique's father.

Thank you sir, says the flight attendant. I must ask you to give it to me.

It belongs to a friend of my daughter, says Monique's father. That lad there.

He indicates Terence.

Terence is miles away. He is imagining playing Cannot But Be and winning. What if (he would ask) a wheel was a beado? And the person he was asking would say (if they knew how to play): cannot but beado! Ha ha! And if they didn't know how to play, Terence would say: cannot but beado, and it still would be funny...

What? says Terence.

It's Monique. She has squeezed past her father and come over.

They took it!

What? asks Terence. 

Your fourth wheel! says Monique. They want it for evidence.

The girlfriend has arrived at her seat, which Terence is occupying.

Sorry kid, I need my seat back.

Okay, says Terence, getting down.

Now he has no seat and no fourth wheel. 

Bumhole. 

At least he has a good Cannot But Be.