Sunday, June 10, 2012

Succinctly yours: appreciate

Each week a photo appears on the Grandma's Goulash blog, accompanied by a word of the week. This time it is appreciate. The word was suggested by Grandma's daughter, Calico, before she saw the photo, so it might be difficult to incorporate the two in one mini story. How mini? Very mini. We are asked to use the photo as a prompt for a short story of 140 words, or a short-short story of 140 characters including punctuation and spaces.
Below the photo is my submission of 140 characters, punctuation, spaces and all.

Photo supplied as prompt

I'm afraid I don't appreciate these things properly. In fact, they've terrified me all my life, but I hated to disappoint the grandchildren.


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8 comments:

  1. anthonynorthJune 11, 2012 at 1:43 AM

    Ah, the things we do for the grandkids. Scary.
    Nice one.

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  2. EG CameraGirlJune 11, 2012 at 5:23 AM

    Ha! I identify with these words well!

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  3. Other MaryJune 11, 2012 at 6:41 AM

    I think that's delightfully succinct!

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  4. DarylJune 11, 2012 at 7:45 AM

    another excellent well worded interpretation/illustration .. you'd do well on Twitter ;)

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  5. PatJune 11, 2012 at 10:42 AM

    I'm with you, Kay! I never have liked spinning/oscillating rides in my entire life. But we do sacrifice for our grands sometimes! Well done!

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  6. Sherry Blue SkyJune 11, 2012 at 1:00 PM

    Me, too. And have never ridden one with the grandkids either!!! I almost fell out of one when I was a kid, and never got past the fear.

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  7. FrikoJune 11, 2012 at 4:24 PM

    You did well! Perfectly succinct and perfectly sensible.

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  8. kaykualaJune 12, 2012 at 10:39 AM

    That is a smooth MF you got, Kay! Yes the grandchild decide on what we do and where to go.

    Hank

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