WORDS FOR WEDNESDAY - 08-09-2023

WORDS FOR WEDNESDAY 

PROVIDED BY Messymimi's meanderings

This week's prompts are:

abuse

pardon

posture

guideline

gavel

evening

and / or the following phrases

drive me nuts

beating around the bush

high and dry

 

BOYS WILL BE BOYS by Granny Annie

 

Mom left the living room exasperated.  Her sons were having another fight over their differences of opinions.  She was too frustrated to try and stop another one of their petty disagreements.

 

Eddie's posture was suddenly straightened.  He had taken enough abuse from the evening conversation with his brother and yelled.  "Why do you always drive me nuts?"  

 

The boys did not even notice their mother had left the room.  Both knew that their mother would  end up telling their dad.  It was always as if  brother Timothy was a judge and Eddie was waiting for the gavel to fall.  Evidentially they were not following the family guidelines for this argument. 

 

Timothy was simply beating around the bush.  Eddie gave up and stormed out the front door, his face luminous bright red . He would go outside and leave his brother high and dry.

The argument would finally end when father returned from work.  That is when the gavel would really fall and the heated discussion about who the neighbor Christy liked the most would be closed. They could never win without Christy's participation. Neither boy would receive a pardon from their dad for their foolishness and bothering their mother.