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Wordless Wednesday – 11/1/17
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Bathrooms
Daily Post Prompt: Squat
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“You don’t know diddly squat about it!”
“Oh, yes I do. I know you broke a date with Mary Jane to go out with Hildy.”
Sam Paskell stood toe-to-toe with his best friend, Herman Gates. “Herman,” he growled, grasping his friend by the shirt collar and pulling him forward, “if you say one word about that to anyone else, I’ll clobber you.”
“Hey, I don’t squeal on my friends; you know that. It just made me mad that you insisted I didn’t know what I was talkin’ about.”
“How’d you find out?”
“I heard some girls talkin’ about it when I was listenin’ outside the girls’ bathroom door.”
Sam smirked. “I’ve told you over and over that one of these days the teacher’s going to catch you doin’ that.”
“Yeah … prob’ly … but in the mean time, I get me some good learnin'”
“So who was talking about me?”
“Della Thompson. She said she saw you out with Hildy at the movies that night. Mary Jane had already told her you broke your date because you got sick.”
“Darn! I gotta think of somethin’ to tell Mary Jane.”
“Well, I got a idea.”
“What?”
“Tell her your mom is best friends with Hildy’s aunt, and she insisted that you take Hildy out. Then tell Mary Jane you was too ashamed to admit that you couldn’t stand up to your mom about it, because you care so much for Mary Jane that you couldn’t bear for her to think badly of you. And then ask her to please forgive you for not being completely honest. Tell her you don’t deserve anyone as good as her, and that you’ll understand if she can’t forgive you, but you’ll be broken-hearted over it.”
“You think that’ll work?”
“Gets ’em every time.”
“How do you know all this?”
“Man … I keep tellin’ ya. I learn all this stuff standin’ outside the girls’ bathroom door.”
“They do all this talkin while they’re squatting over the stool?”
“Heck no, man. Don’t you know nothin’? Girls don’t go to the bathroom just to squat over the stool. They go to talk. Ain’t you ever noticed how one girl don’t ever go to the bathroom alone? They always go in two’s and three’s. It’s to do all the gossipin'”
“Well, I’ll be. Maybe I need to spend some time outside that bathroom door getting myself a real education.” ‡
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Okay, I know it’s a stupid little story, but I didn’t have much time to think of a better one. And besides — there’s a lot of truth in it.”
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Share Your World, 2014 – Week 46
Share Your World this week has us traveling. Visit Cee’s photography blog to learn how to participate in the fun.
Question # 1: On vacation, what would you require in any place that you sleep?
Scrupulously clean bed linens and scrupulously clean bathroom. (And they are extremely hard to find anywhere.)
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Question # 2: Music or silence while working?
When I’m cleaning house, washing dishes, or fixing things, I like to listen to music. But when I’m writing or preparing a lesson, I have to have ABSOLUTE quiet.
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Question # 3: If you were to move, and your home came fully furnished with everything you ever wanted, list at least three things from your old house that you wish to retain.
Well, I’m going to assume that we would all take things like our personal photos, books, cooking utensils, computers, etc. So I’ll refer mainly to furniture items. I wouldn’t move without taking the maple secretariat that was my mothers, the book case my father made me, the fold-down oak table that was my great-aunts, a chair that has been in my family since I was six years old, and the child’s padded rocking chair that my parents bought for me when I was 2 years old. None of those things are worth any significant amount monetarily, but they are priceless to me.
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Question # 4: What’s your least favorite mode of transportation?
Flying. I don’t have any particular fear concerning plane crashes, but I do hate to go through all the lengthy, aggravating processes of security, and, most of all, I hate the idea that I am imprisoned with a crowd of strangers in a rather cramped, artificial environment, and I have absolutely no say in when I can get off.
I realize that on a train or a bus, I have no real say either, but there’s some subconscious sense that, as long as I’m on the ground, I could manage to get someone to stop if I really had to. Ships don’t bother me as much, because on a ship, I can get outside and walk around on deck and feel I have more control.
Whenever I tell people how I feel about plane travel, they assume I must have claustrophobia, but I don’t have any particular problem with being in small enclosed places in general. Elevators don’t bother me. Neither do telephone booths. When all is said and done, I think it’s primarily a control thing. I don’t really like traveling in any vehicle where I cannot control when we start, stop, get in, or get out.
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Bonus Question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I’m very grateful that I finally sat down and studied the tutorials for YouTube and Vimeo and learned how to make the videos and post them to those two networks. I’m even more grateful that I was able to learn how in a relatively short time.
This week I am looking forward to all the delightful anticipation of celebrating Thanksgiving and preparing for Christmas — including getting my lights up on my house and putting up my little tree.
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The Happy Wordcrafter 