WORDS FOR WEDNESDAY -- 11-16-2022

 

This month, the prompts are being provided by messymimi's meanderings.

This week's prompts are:

tap

dump

basic

push

favor

lesson

 

and/or the following phrases:

a day late and a dollar short

my cup of tea

a home bird

 

 LIVE AND LEARN by Granny Annie

 

Marchelle knew it was time to go out in public.  All her life she had been affected by agoraphobia and was a home bird fearing to leave familiar surroundings. She called the dump to see if they would grant a favor.  "Please don't empty the last truck in the landfill" she begged.  "I must search for my coin!"  It was not a request the owner was willing to grant. Marchella went there anyway and would politely tap at the entrance. Her fear of being outside was gone as her heart pounded for this lost treasure.

 

She had made every effort  to bring her trash back in before it could be picked up.  She gave them a basic story,  "I was sipping my cup of tea after searching everywhere for my coin. Then I suddenly remembered my lost coin could be in the container on the way to the dumping ground.  I ran to the curb and sadly I was a day late and a dollar short.  The empty container was waiting for me to push back to the house."

 

Eventually the sanitation department took pity on her and allowed her entrance. She went into shock seeing the mountains of garbage that stood before her.  Suddenly she was thrilled her to see Ivan, Marchella's regular collector.  He was just pulling in with the truck.  "Stop Ivan!" 

With his help she spotted her trash bags and began ripping them open.  By God's mercy she saw this rare coin come tumbling out.  Her lesson for the day was to check the trash for lost items before carrying it out.  The second achievement for this day was that she could go outside safely and Marchella just might do that again.