The Bag Lady

The chef sat uneasily on his stool overlooking the members of the class. He tried not to shift around too much on his seat, but watching the iffy talents of his pupils made him nervous. He knew they would have to learn by doing, but it was difficult watching them and staying quiet, letting them learn from their own mistakes.

It was only after one member started to beat the custard with a mixer instead of by hand, causing the concoction to spin out of the bowl and onto a nearby chair, that he uttered “mon dieu”!

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Your three words today are:
CHAIR
SEAT
STOOL

Been finding it hard to be kind
Since I’ve been lost out there, losing my mind
And I still keep on searching for what I can’t find
Let me drown

Don’t wanna wash you away
I swear there’s good things that are coming your way
And I can’t be the one left here dragging you down
Let me drown

Only one knew my name
Nothing left but the summer rain
Drag me ’round ’til I never complain
Let me drown

And then suddenly we’re writing out the same old lie
When water is all around
Baby, I can be the one you drown tonight
Well, I had sun in my eyes and I’d confide
We’re no worse off than the worst of ’em, it’s fine

Never knew where was home
I slept a lifetime alone
Yeah, we had it one time but it’s gone now, it’s gone
Let me drown

I know with pleasure comes pain
I figured we were the same
But as I get older I get more afraid
Let me drown

So, no I can’t be kind since I lost my mind
And this town just ain’t big enough for the both of us now
Let me drown
No, I can’t be kind since I lost my mind
And this town just ain’t big enough for the both of us now
Let me drown

Source: LyricFind Songwriters: Daniel Pitout. Let Me Drown lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc

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“Aha! Now admit defeat!”

“I will do no such thing, it’s a victory!”

“Every time you try to put that word in, you know it’s fake. I don’t care if you don’t have a consonant, there is no such word that has only vowels!”

The argument went on till the other players left the room. The old dictionary covered with dust was finally being put to use.

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“Again? Another Saturday full of chores and shopping? I just want to watch the game. Red Sox lost last week.” Joe rose from the table, sighed, walked into the living room.
An impromptu setup shown hot dogs, beer and Red Sox pennant by his favorite chair. He smiled.

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https://sammiscribbles.wordpress.com/2022/05/07/weekend-writing-prompt-258-impromptu/

Being a very busy mom, taking care of us and our four grandparents, I heard this a lot. “Early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise”. Early bedtimes and with our playing outside every day no matter the weather probably helped her. I did love to help her with anything🙄😂. Her own mother used to say if you think of doing a bad thing say “get thee behind me Satan”.

This is Trigger, he was our wonderful red chestnut quarter horse. He was a well- trained reining cow-pony. When Dad got on him, Trigger got excited, his head went up and Dad put him through the paces; turning on a dime, figure eights, short stops.
Then to test for safety for us kids, he rode him at full gallop up and down the hill farm pasture and through a swamp. Trigger never
stumbled so Dad said, “Yup, he’ll do’.

https://lindaghill.com/2022/05/06/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-may-7-2022/

I loved this movie and went on to research Frida and Diego Rivera’s artwork. Salma Hayek is excellent in this role!

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Last night not sleeping, I thought my last posts have been a little sad, my mind went to I’m a bummer and the “bummer of a birthmark Hal” so I decided to lighten up via Gary Larson cartoons:

And my favorite:

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https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2022/05/04/its-six-sentence-story-thursday-link-up-210/

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https://cyranny.com/2022/05/04/may-4th-1minfiction-challenge/#like-62623

I just finished the fourth book in this series by Dennis E. Taylor. Very interesting and a good respite from serious true accounts of war which I have been reading. The sample reading is my first attempt at this so be patient🥴

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“Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it’s a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street. Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds.”

Sample reading:

“Dennis E Taylor is a computer programmer by day, a writer by night, and a snowboarder when in season. He has been reading science fiction for {mumble} years, and now find himself on the other end of the pen.”

I love the narration of this book and hope you decide to check it out.

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