The Bag Lady

I’m not in the mood to care that it’s not still Monday- I’ll warn you right now. Here’s the problem: I was charged $7 (tip) by Walmart twice for two different small items delivered into my post office box. I tried a chat person on their site, no help.

Another day I tried a different chat and was promised a refund of the $14 and that happened. Then I received an email with a $10 “coupon” code for a next order, for my trouble—good until April.

I have not been able to use the code because there is no place to put it when you check out. I tried it in actual store pharmacy and they said it has no bar code, just letters, which is true. I even showed them the email, but because of no barcode, couldn’t use it.

I’ve been stewing over this and tonight decided to try it again. Not working—so I called the store, talked to six different people, ending in a barely understandable conversation with a nice young woman and I told her twice I could barely understand her and please slow down. Didn’t happen. Her “solution” was to use the code on my next order and I asked where do I put the code? That’s why I’m calling because there is no place! She just repeated same stuff and after twenty minutes of being on hold and finding no solution, I just said, you know what? Forget it! Keep your ten dollars. It’s not worth the aggravation! I hung up.

https://gmgblog.ca/2023/02/13/five-word-weekly-challenge-2307/

natural resource

curving, weaving waterways

pollution alters

resolutions mount, ignored

Mother Earth retribution

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https://wordcraftpoetry.com/2023/02/14/tankatuesday-weekly-poetry-challenge-no-307-2-14-2023/

https://the-bee-writes.com/2023/01/31/tomorrow-is-the-day-love-is-in-da-blog-2023-is-rolling-in/

https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/19271780/posts/4549377998

This week’s photo is credited to NoName_13 on Pixabay. It depicts a man standing with a cane, his back to us, facing a sunset. There is a bench beside him and a large tree on the right.

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©️2023 Paula Light and Light Motifs II. No unauthorized use permitted.

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Looking over bright highways

Thinking of his own varied road of life

All the sunsets in all the world

Could not compare to her beauty.

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https://lightmotifs.wordpress.com/2023/02/13/fandangos-flash-fiction-challenge-206/

HERE IS THE PROSERY PROMPT LINE: “This year’s a different thing, –
I’ll not think of you.” from Charlotte Mew, “I so liked Spring”

Here’s how to take part in the Prosery Prompt:

• Write a piece of flash fiction or other prose up of up to or exactly 144 words, including the given line from the poem.
• Post your Prosery piece on your blog and link back to this post.
• Place the link to your actual post (not your blog url) on the Mister Linky page.
• Don’t forget to check the little box to accept use/privacy policy.
• Please visit other blogs and comment on their posts!

Ten years I’ve mourned you and now, maybe it needs to change? I will try to keep a promise made to only think of the fun times and the laughs we had as young lovers. Listening to albums on a small record player in a room with no furniture, we happily stretched out on the wood floor and let the music overtake us. Good times. Remembering when you carried me over your shoulder walking up an outside flight of stairs and then turning and bonking my head on the door jamb. Such good times, lots of laughter. “This year’s a different thing, – I’ll not think of you.”

http://dversepoets.com/2023/02/13/prosery-last-year-lost-love/

Three of this week’s questions have been provided by Marla. Thank you Marla!

If you could rename yourself, what name would you choose and why? As a child I always wanted to be named Elizabeth. (Beth). My sister’s name was Jo in real life. Probably the book “Little Women” was an influence.

If you were tasked with naming a new star, what would you name it and why? Pi after my granddaughter.

If you were a story/comic book hero, what would your name be and why? I have one already: Joe Ledger😂

If animals could talk, which would be the rudest? Definitely cats

I am grateful my daughter’s home is receiving a new furnace. Theirs has been out all week and it has been COLD!

https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/02/13/share-your-world-13th-february/#more-93776

You could look up every culture’s dictionary, in every era of time, and find out who used certain words, and probably who proudly decided it should be a word in the first place. Then you might be sorry as you realized who and how many changes were made to the original.

Here and now in the US we are experiencing a few ignorant people in political arenas that want to make me think that years of education and everything I’ve seen, read or experienced in person that has influenced my life, is wrong.

I must have been in another world or time growing up and what I saw and heard was all lies. Else, how can those people say and do these things? How do they get away with spouting all this discrimination and hate and subsequent actions? Are they owned by someone’s money? How do they sidestep the laws and the subpoenas that try to bring them to justice? Can you answer that please? I really want to know!

https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2023/02/11/wordle-592/#like-2837

https://the-bee-writes.com/2023/02/11/sara-by-fleetwood-mac-prompt-12-love-is-in-da-blog-2023-this-year-bi-lingual-english-deutsch/