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After overnight travel through Kundiawa and a tense delay, masked men stage a roadblock at Mune Bridge, demand the truck keys, and conduct an armed hold-up of coffee beans. The narrator experiences shock and confusion, then parts ways at Goroka, returning home instead of reaching Lae.","I Never got to Lae  \nSchool Journal Senior 1, 2009 V1 .1  \nEnglish Story Book  \nOne of my friends had asked me to go down to Lae. My uncle is a truck driver, and he was going to Lae that day. I asked him if I could have a ride with him.  \nWe left Mt Hagen at nine o'clock at night and arrived in Kundiawa at three the next morning.  \n\"Have a sleep,\" said my uncle.“We'll have to wait till the mist clears in the morning, anyway. But after a few hours he got tired of waiting. \"Let's  \nA few kilometres out of Kundiawa, I asked my uncle,\"Do you think we will have any trouble on the way?\"  \n\"Don't worry,\" said my uncle.\"We'll be all right.\"  \nAt the Mune Bridge, the road goes down a slope, over the bridge, and up a hill. Just as we crossed the bridge, some masked men jumped out onto the road. They signalled us to  \nMy uncle stopped the truck in front of the men. The leader of the gang climbed up beside the cab. \"Give me the keys,\" he ordered.  \nMy uncle shook his head.  \n\"What's in the container?\" the leader asked.  \n\"Bags of coffee beans,\" my uncle said.  \n\"Give us the key so we can open up the container,\" the leader  \n\"Well then, we'll break it open with our axes.\"  \nWhile they were breaking open the container, my uncle and I were held at gun point. \"Don't try anything silly,\" one of the rascals told us.  \nI felt as if the person inside me had left. I don't know if I was scared or confused. For some reason, I was smiling.  \nAfter they had got the coffee,  \nOn the way to Gorokawe hardly said anythingto each other. Tomy uncle,it was nothing new, but to meit was totally strange.All the way, I kept thinking about the hold-up.  \nIn the early hours of the morning we reached Goroka.“Uncle, drop me at the bus stop,\"I said. I jumped down from the big truck. \"Thanks, Uncle. 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