This month, the prompts are being provided by messymimi'smeanderings.
This week's prompts are:
bargain
outlook
belief
margin
differ
wagon
and/or
outlet
glasses
modest
letter
social
lift
NO THANK YOU by Granny Annie
Ellie was only eight years old. It was her belief that the gift was a great bargain. Their next door neighbor had given her a wagon full of turnips. He had just pulled them out of his garden. Ellie knew her mother would be thrilled with this modest gift. Sadly the child's outlook had been wrong. It did differ from her mother's response.
"Do you even know what turnips are?" her mother demanded peering over her glasses at Ellie. "Why would you accept such a gift without even knowing what you were bringing home? I will cook some of these for your dinner tonight and you can eat them all!"
Late in the night Ellie slipped out of her house. It wasn't easy to lift the remainder of the gift over the man's fence. Ellie had included a social letter to the neighbor. She put it with the load of turnips she was returning. It read, "Thank you but no more turnips please".
Why are turnups bad? Great that got all the words in. Happy FriYay!
ReplyDeleteSmiling. I like turnips, but not a whole meal of them. Mind you, I can remember as a child my parents insisting that visitors took home our 'extra' produce.
ReplyDeletePoor Ellie. She and the neighbor both meant well.
ReplyDeleteDidn't know turnips are disliked too :). Good work on the words
ReplyDeleteGood job with the words. I guess Ellie's mum didn't think about dicing and freezing for future soups. I know my mum would have.
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