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“I’m gonna be in a lot of trouble when I get home”, said Ted, as he walked into the Baaamy Inn, soaking wet thanks to the pouring rain, “the wife gave me a shopping list when I left home and I’m supposed to have bought the stuff on the way here, well, I dropped the list on the ground and went to I went to pick it up a gust of wind blew it into the air and it flew onto on a passing cars windscreen“; just at that moment a guy entered the pub and ordered a pint, “this piece of paper landed on my windscreen, Len”, he said as he screwed it up, “mind if I throw it on the fire?”
“Talking of dropping things”, said Arthur, “unbeknown to me I dropped my wallet on the ground as I left the bakery this morning, it had all my credit cards and cash in it, anyway, I walked to the bus stop getting there just in time and as I climbed aboard some bloke leapt on behind me; as I sat down he walked up to me puffing and panting and said ‘you dropped your wallet outside’ the bakery, I thanked him and he just stood there, so I said ‘where it then?’ and he said ‘I just told you, it’s on the ground outside the bakery’ – fortunately someone handed it in so I got it back” ; “good, said Babs, because it’s your turn to buy the drinks!”
The rain had suddenly turned to snow, heavy snow, ”looks like it’s settling on the ground already”, said Jim, “shame were not holding the Winter Olympics, I remember back in ‘78 when we had lots of snow, I took my five year old Freddy up the hill with a tea tray so he could have a go at tobogganing, I sat him on it, told him to hold tight and off he went, he loved it, he walked back up, sat on the tray, held his arms in the air and said ‘look Dad, no hands’, and down he went, then he came back pulled his beanie hat down over his face and said ‘look Dad, no eyes’ and down he went again, unfortunately he bumped in to a fence, he came back up with a smile on his face and said ‘look Dad, no tooth!”
Over at the knitting circle, a brown stain on Natilie’s cardigan had caught the attention of Polly, ”what have you done?”, she said; “well,” said Nat, “I was cleaning out my cafetiere before I left and I managed to splash coffee grounds all over the place and I didn’t have time to change, but it got me thinking, last year Knitwitter’s Weekly held a competition to find the most unusual things to make, suggestions included fancy fishing nets, colourful cobwebs, a cat’s hat and scarf, a pair of cosy cufflinks and a couple of things that modesty prevents me from mentioning, I was thinking I could knit a really comfortable bra for those of us whose’s boobies are rapidly heading towards the ground, and call it the Wings Beneath my Things”……up jumped Suzie at the next table, “fly, fly, so high against the sky, so high they’ll almost touch the sky!”
Here comes Colin – “Olympic skiing’s not as popular as it was, it’s going downhill fast – after the shepherdess left her sheep out in a blizzard she had to take them to the Icy Ewe ward – Mary had a little lamb, the midwife fainted – the most ground breaking invention ever was the shovel – I fell down a hole in the ground filled with water, I couldn’t see that well – the ground said to the earthquake, you crack me up – when a plane hits the ground it goes boeing – when your books fall to the ground you only have your shelf to blame – I read a book about a machine that drills holes in the ground, it was boring – I told the barista my coffee tasted like dirt, he said it was only ground this morning – I don’t like coffee, it’s not really my cup of tea – I couldn’t work in Starbucks, the daily grind would be too much – a sad cup of coffee is despresso…….”
Len was looking out at the snow that now covered the ground and his mind went back to when he and his dearly departed Maggie each made a ‘snowperson’, they stood face to face as if kissing; the next day the sun came out and they began to disappear, “you melted my heart Maggie”, he muttered, “mine too”, whispered Maggie, “mine too”.
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Thanks to Delise at GirlieOnTheEdge for hoasting Six Sentence Stories where this week’s given word is Ground.
