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“We wouldn’t have this infestation if we didn’t make so many parks,” groused Mickey impatiently.
“What, Grandpa?” Fifteen-year-old Lydia stared out the passenger window.
“I said these damn geese are just like people. They’re always in the way, shit all over everything, and if one walks into traffic, all the rest follow.”
“Is it the Olympics or the elections?”
“Both,” he complained. “Everything.”
“You just don’t like change,” she countered with a sly smile.
“I don’t like stupidity and that’s what this is, all of it.”
“They’re almost across the street. “
“Ever taste goose pate?” Mick floored the accelerator.
It’s Wednesday and once again time to participate in Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’ 9 August 2024 edition of Friday Fictioneers. The idea is to use the image above as the prompt for crafting a poem or short story no more than 100 words long. My word count is exactly 100.
I heard once that open, grassy areas attract geese and that we wouldn’t have so many in our cities if we didn’t have so many parks. This is such a mundane scene that it begged for some complaining, so I made up some. Relax. Mickey still had his foot on the brake pedal and the gear shift in neutral when he gunned the engine (I never have had a goose dinner, though).
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Goose pate! What a great idea 🙂
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Sad to tell grandpa he’s an idiot and a terrible role model for his grandchild!
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The term “curmudgeon” comes to mind.
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Dear James,
Grandpa is definitely a curmudgeon. Not someone I’d want to spend the day with.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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He’s having a bad day.
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To rephrase … “Let them eat pâté!”
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LOL. Good one.
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I imagine Lydia is used to his cantankerous ways – I just hope she’s not a vegan!
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I didn’t create her that way. Thanks.
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Grandpa is grumpy! Nicely done.
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Thanks, Meha.
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Yeah, this old world is an awful place…if you look at it that way. 🙂
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It can be, Christine. Thanks.
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Pate! That is a tasty solution to the wandering geese.
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I agree. Actually, I’ve never had goose pate before.
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Haha, very believable characters.
I enjoyed their exchange.
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Thanks, Dawn.
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oh dear…those geese better duck! Grandad’s on he warpath!
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He’s got the car in neutral so it’s ok. Thanks.
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Nicely done!
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Thanks.
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You’re welcome 😊
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Poor geese, but if you didn’t have parks all the kids would get fat and we’ed suffer from a lack of wild life to hold us up. Good take!
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Thanks. The thing about wide grassy spaces and geese is true.
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nuts!! we have a dearth of pigeons in UK, and pheasants where I live
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A grump with a few seeds of truth? Stupidity is indeed hard to swallow and a few of those geese probably should end up on someone’s plate ;).
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Truth can sometimes sound grumpy. Thanks.
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if you can’t control them, eat them. 🙂
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Yes!
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Oh dear haha they are annoying that’s for sure! Very lemming like haha
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Thanks, Laurie.
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