River prompted me with her Wednesday's Words on a Friday
Apparently (and this is lifted directly from River's blog) this month the words/prompts are supplied by Lissa and can be found at her blog
This week's words/prompts are:
1.heartbreak 2.cheeseburger 3.postcard 4.afterlife 5.beachcomb
Charlotte's colour of the month is Electric Rose
So -
He was chewing heartily when he began to berate me out of the blue - that's right, a total stranger, no pause to swallow, just multi-tasking his way through cheeseburger whilst in the queue at the garden centre.
"Do you know what happens to people like you in the afterlife? Its not a picnic, you know. Its not a postcard from Sydney, its not find pearls when you beachcomb - you would find dog turds." He ranted on.
I had tuned out at people like me. I was wondering what bucket of human I had been scooped from in his mind to be worthy of this diatribe. I began to meander through the corridors of people who would make up the halls of the afterlife with me.
And then I wondered about the colours of his damnation. No doubt rainbow. Perhaps all greens. Scarlet, definitely - but what about pinks? From Fuchsia through Electric Rose - but Blush - would that also be damnable? And the Sunset Yellow in the tin that I was buying - I would have heartbreak if that was the colour of my slippery slope.
Luckily the line moved forward and he slurped his soft drink and found another target.
6 comments:
I like this and wonder about that man's mental health. Perhaps the bright yellow bucket triggered something. I'm wondering now if he says the same thing to everyone.
I ‘love’ this Jeannie. I’ve come across some real strange ones in the line at Bunnings but thankfully none that came at me like that. I’ve never painted anything Sunset Yellow so maybe that’s what set him off.
Yes, there are some strange people out there who are probably undiagnosed - I have a face that occasionally encourages people to drop their veneers...
Our living room walls are quarter sunset yellow - but the tin itself looks exactly like the one for the trim which is quarter hogbristle (which gets rather mangled with the tongue at times!)
You came up with a great story from the prompts!
Thanks Kelly.
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