Something strange was going on with the elderly gentleman living at number thirteen.
Inside the house, he gathered up all of the various medications he’d been taking. He then flushed them all down the toilet. Next, he went looking for all the old photo albums, personal diaries and even his love letters. These he loaded into the metal bin in the back garden and put a match to it. Back inside, he contacted his bank and arranged to have all of his accounts emptied, and to have the cash ready for him to collect when he called in during the morning. Leaving the bank, he drove to a local car sales yard, parked it in a visitors bay, then walked home. On the way back, he dropped his wedding ring down the grating at the side of the road, walked on by way of the local park, where he tossed his mobile phone into the middle of the pond.
Once back home, the cash went into the bin that was still smouldering, where it began to burn quickly.
This done, he returned to the house, where he made himself a nice cup of tea.
It was all very mysterious, but the bigger mystery was that nobody knew why he did it!