Alfie could feel the age creeping up his body. He felt some of his brown hair turn a pale grey. Wrinkles formed on his cheeks, his forehead, and on the dimples of his mouth.
Alfie had aged himself 20 years older. Now he was 50 years old.
He went out, and saw the cops appear.
"Hey, did you happen to see a man called Alfie Robbigs [Robbigs was Alfie's last name] run by here?" one cop asked the older Alfie, not even recognizing him, due to Alfie's new age.
"Oh, he went that way." Alfie said quickly, pointing to a direction.
The cops raced off. Alfie was about to go when...
"Hey!" the cop exclaims, making Alfie gulp and fear that the cop had seen through the ruse. "Thanks a lot, sir, I appreciate it." He rushes off to join the mad pursuit.
'That,' Alfie said to himself, 'was too close.'
Alfie knew he should use the ray to revert to normal. But with a ray like that, who knows what fun there could be?