Thursday, March 23, 2017

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Post 1485. Thursday March 23

Six Sentence Stories




Ernie loves nothing more than to stand in a crowded street pointing skyward, and as everybody stops and gazes up at nothing at all, walk away!

Another of his favourite games is to glue a coin to the pavement and sit on a nearby bench; it’s worth ten pence to sit and watch people’s frustrated attempts at picking it up.

He is a bit naughty sometimes, like when he walks up to someone who is eating sweets from a packet, says ‘look over there’ then quickly pinch one!

Only the other day he went into a public toilet, lifted a loo seat, stretched some cling film over the bowl, lowered it again and walked away.

Yesterday as he walked down a crowded street he saw several people pointing skyward. He stopped and looked up, not noticing that everyone was dashing off, and got bonked on the head by an out-of-control drone!


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24 comments:

  1. Haha. Ernie's poetic justice or at least karma. I worked with a jokester - April 1 was her favorite day of the year. She always put a rubberband around the sink squirter hose so that as soon as one turned on the faucet, they were (I was) doused with a shower. She also did some nasty bathroom things that I won't go into but it did involve chocolate donuts. To this day I wonder if she ever got her poetic justice.

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    1. Val, that is so funny. Chocky donuts will never taste the same!

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  2. What a perfect ending to this tale, Keith! You made me laugh this morning, poetic justice indeed! I used to love to do things like this on the elevator where I worked, staring up at a corner, or mentioning things like "Isn't this the one that got stuck yesterday?" It certainly breaks up the boredom of everyone staring at their feet in a confined space. :-)

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    1. There is so much fumn to be had out there! Thanks Josie

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  3. His comeuppance was pointed indeed!

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    1. It had to turn round on him one day! Cheers Paul

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  4. Heeheehee! About time he got paid back, perhaps.

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  5. Aw, Ernie's just having fun. Hope he enjoyed it as much when it was turned on him. :)

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    1. I'm sure he saw the funny side of it once the stars disappeared!

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  6. I must give Sussex a miss next time I am in England in case I meet Earnie there. Laughing with people is always better than laughing at them.

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    1. Looks as though Ernie earned my approbation twice!

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    2. We're an odd lot in Sussex OE! Thanks twice matey.

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  7. Priceless! I do like a little poetic justice. It's such a rare pleasure.

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  8. I guess what goes around....really does come DOWN!
    ;)

    - Lisa

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  9. ha! hoist on his own petard! (from my readings, that expression is one of the most mis-applied Shakespeare lines anywhere*)
    Liked the Six because the joker got played.

    *I believe I have continued the tradition with my own misuse (at least of the literal interpretation)

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    1. I do believe you have, but what the heck? I like to think that we are correcting the Bard, not mis-applying him! Cheers Clark

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  10. Oh dear--I guess it was bound to happen!

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    1. If you can't take it you shouldn't give it! Cheers!

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