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 – GUARD
Click here to hear the author read his words:
Charlie
My name’s Charlie Galles, also known as Chick the Chink, and formerly Big Luggy, and I know I’m maybe not the brightest knife at the picnic but I’ve got a new job as a sort of guide.
Y’see, I used to be a kinda guard, like a backup, you might say, but I got promoted quite recently, just after my mum died.
I come from a fair-sized family, got a sister who’s not the worst, likes rugby and horses and stuff, and two brothers, about whom least said the better.
They’re a bit of an odd pair, to be honest, the wee one’s in the theatre or something and the other wanted to work with kids but that didn’t turn out too well, so I don’t know what he’s doing now.
Anyway, about these nicknames, the old one’s simple ‘cos in Scotland we call ears lugs, so if you’re kinda well-endowed in that department you get called Luggy, and I can outflap Dumbo, so you can join the dots from here, I’m sure.
The other one’s a wee bit embarrassing ‘cos when I was at school, way up north in darkest teuchter land, I was in the big city one time and got taken for a meal, sushi it was, and when I got back to school I told my mates and they laughed for a week and were really bliddy unforgiving ‘cos I said I really liked Chinese food.
Sound Bite Fiction 
Loved the nickname origins.
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Glad you found them amusing, Bernadette
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I really liked this one. Clever commentary on recent news.
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Thanks, Nicole, I am a big believer in satire!
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A well written six. Though I have to say I, myself, didn’t expect to be so moved by her death. For me she was a great example of of selflessness and service.
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Thanks for visiting and taking the time to comment, Marian, it’s always cool to welcome a new reader.
We clearly have very different views on the monarchy, but that, I think, is good and healthy.
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Well done, as always. One thing i keep saying is we need a sarcasm font.
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Thanks, Mimi, I have no other reaction to this pathetic sideshow.
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Suspension of reality? Even out here in the boondocks of Australia, I feel the sadness for a legend now departed. I wonder how Big Luggy will go? Good luck to him, what an enormous step up and so late in his life. No longer waiting.
Interesting read, as per usual.
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Personally I’m just delighted to be in France and not involved in what seems to be compulsory mourning for an anachronistic institution. Freedom of speech has been suspended along with reality, hence this post. Individual choice should be the order of the day, and not the unedifying spectacle of competitive grief.
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I dont think people waiting in a queue think ir’s compulsive mourning.
But yes, it has been an overload of spectacle. Like, choose one channel 😁
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Like I say, Trish, individual choice. At present there is no choice, it’s be seen to mourn or be arrested!
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Yeah?
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I hadn’t seem any of the stories about arrests of people expressing their opinion, so apologies for that
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Playing it safe, I am, with a Thai Red Curry for dinner tonight…otherwise folks might think I’m from Wisconsin! (Aackk!)
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Bon appetit, Liz!
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Like the others, I enjoy your Sixes mostly because I end up looking up words and phrases and such.
Not sure I quite get the punchline, (but for reasons unexplored, I’m resisting trying to figure it out by the other’s comments.)
lol
And my non-blogger friends laugh and say, “So, clark, this Six Sentence Story bloghop, it’s like those little old lady book clubs and you sit around and read stories to each other?”
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You could always tell them ‘no, we even have a fat old colonial bastard in the group’. Others may choose more refined characterisations but we are essentially an electric group. 😉
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Hey Doug, that’s no way to talk about my chum Clarkie!
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The punchline is just a joke, Clark, to allow me a forum to satirise the current ridiculous situation in the UK where nothing else is happening in the world. There is no war, no energy crisis, no horrific rise in food prices, no certainty of hardship and death this winter for far too many across Scotland and much of England so long as we wave our wee flags and pretend to be sad.
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I actually heard that more than once, and it’s totally forgivable. 🍣
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I’m not sure I understand this comment, Cassa, but thanks for visiting.
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I meant that mistaken sushi as Chinese food, I heard it before. I considered it an easy mix up. 😄
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Ah, okay! Sorry Cassa, I appear to be as slow as my MC here!
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good satire. good job.
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Thanks, Paul, glad you picked up on it
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Nice one a chuilein, good craic.
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I suspect our views might differ here, mon brave
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I googled “teuchter” and all at once the story all made sense. But I did wonder how his mum died.
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She was 96, so I guess it was old age.
For political reasons she went to Scotland.
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96 sounds younger and younger every day.
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She did not have your youth or class, dear Lady, and certainly not your je ne sais quoi
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If only you’d known sushi like they knew sushi. 😉
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Funny, Doug, but I hoped you might have picked up the main point
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Sorry, bit slow on the uptake. Only just got the news by undersea cable morse code here in the Antipodes. 😉
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A moment of light relief amid the insanity, satire at its finest.
You made me laugh.
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PPS Love the photo and its caption.
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Oh yes, it’s all starting to crumble!
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Thanks, Jenne, just a wee antidote to the current suspension of reality in the UK.
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