Household Item Wrangler Gets His Start + Mary Knows (Throwback Thursday)

Prompts = Sick, Tired, Erected

Story New — Household Item Wrangler Gets His Start

G’day. When I was a lad, there was no cable; you had to wrangle with the aerial; if it wasn’t erected, all you got was white noise.

Day one moving into a new house, my folks were tired but I was sick, so me Dad went to the roof, in the middle of a storm, uphill both ways even, but he got it going.

That day, I learned about the letters S and E and the number 3. But I also learned the importance of wrangling household items, which I now pass on to you.

Household Item Wrangler, signing off.

Story Old — Mary Knows

 

Photo by René Porter on Unsplash

“When you want a baby, you find a man and he builds something.”

Mary Constallas held court with a small group of neighbourhood girls every day after school. She was an authority because she was older than us (she was seven, we were six) and had an older sister.

“You see, he gets an “erected” and that means to build something.”

Her pronouncements still ring in my ears:

“My mom says she’s “sick and tired” whenever she doesn’t want to cook dinner. When I’m older, I’m going to pick just one.”

Forty years later, her words became a story…

Links to other sites where I publish:

Blogger = https://onehundredwordsbyparz.blogspot.com
Medium = https://medium.com/100-word-or-less-stories
YouTube = https://www.youtube.com/user/parzivalsattva

And a link to where my Lovely Lady Love (who also operates the camera) posts her art: https://www.youtube.com/user/recyclinggoddess