This challenge is produced by GirlieOnTheEdge with the following simple rules:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word – RAMBUNCTIOUS
Click here to hear the author read his words:
Young Love
My mother, who must have ears like a hawk, intercepts us as I hustle Carole Kay towards the stairs leading to my room.
Carole is a pretty girl, popular with all the lads, very easy-going and rumoured to be, in private, even a tad rambunctious.
And where, asks my mum, with a surprising lack of insight, do you think you are going?
I er um we em thought erm ah going to listen to some music! I answer smoothly.
Well, says mater, seemingly determined that I should remain innocent until I am at least 30, I don’t want anything, ahem, bad going on up there.
Oh no, Mrs Ayr, you don’t need to worry about that, says Carole, with the most beatific smile, dragging me by the hand up the first few steps, I promise you I’ll be very, very good.
Coincidence, CE? 😉 Take the “e” from her first name, tack it on to her last name…
Humorous and entertaining!
Pure coincidence, Denise, the Carole in my story is based on an old friend.
And I’d never malign a lady I don’t know personally.
Glad you enjoyed.
Mother not quite as unaware as might seem, but she knows when the scales have tipped.
Carole leads the initiate…
Perhaps mother is merely choosing her battles, Liz?
Yup! Parenting 101 (sigh!)
Mothers need those good ears.
Indeed, Mimi, but do hawks?
Mrs. Ayr is on to those two, me thinks.
Laughing.
What gave it away, Pat?
Carole’s assurance of being “very, very good” probably worries the mother even more. Regardless mother knows best.
Boys will be boys, girls will be girls, and mothers will be spoilsports, it’s the way of the world!
Something suspicious about a Carol who spells her name with an E-asy.
I suspect, dear Lady, that she didn’t choose her name.
In Scotland that is traditionally a parental function!
I suspect you’re right.
And did she believe Carole?
Carole has an honest face (among her many attributes)
🤣🤗
I’m with Jenne on this! Is it hot in here, or is it me?😳
Laughing.
I’m far too much of a gentleman to comment on your ‘hotness’, Chris!
Very wise! 😉
Mum’s good v Carole’s good, I bet I know what you opted for!
A boy’s gotta do, Keith!
Greaet six.
Thank you, sir
‘Carole is a pretty girl, popular with all the lads, very easy-going and rumoured to be, in private, even a tad rambunctious.’ Not the word that would have been used when I was a lad. 😉
Confession time, Doug.
I’ve never heard the word before in my life, and don’t know what it means.
I think it’s probably a made-up American word, possibly a brutal misspelling of ‘rumbustious’!
I knew the word and its meaning but not its origins, which are, to say the least, clouded. However I think you’re on the money, CE.
Now that made me laugh.
I can see us all smiling and blushing from having been either the teenage boy or girl in the story.
Topped off by a magnificent last line.
Quite the past you have there, Jenne!
Laughing is good.