The Unicorn Challenge.
A magical new weekly writing opportunity from her – Jenne Gray – and me.
Visit her blog every Friday to see the photo prompt, and post your amazing story in her comments section.
Or on your own blog, and stick the link down in her comments.
The rules are:
Maximum of 250 words.
Based on photo prompt.
That’s it.
To hear me read my story, just click here:
Daisy Daisy
My ex-wife was, as previously remarked, a wonderful lady with two flaws – firstly her choice of husband, but also her inexplicable faith in my ability to extricate us from whatever chaos or disaster we found ourselves in.
Like the time in Luxembourg City, en route from Scotland to the south of France via southern Germany, when our ancient Vauxhall refused to climb the mild gradient to exit an underground car park.
She simply asked, smiling with her usual insouciance, ‘So, what’s the plan now?’
One sunny Sunday afternoon in Frankfurt I hired a tandem to tour a huge park.
This machine weighed more than a Churchill tank and had the manoeuvrability of the Titanic.
She smiled and hopped on the back.
We lumbered around, mainly uphill as I recall, and I was perturbed at the effort required to move this leviathan until, glancing over my shoulder, I noticed that she was not contributing fully to the propulsion of our vehicle, but was waving prettily to the young men who stood admiring her lovely legs under her wind-blown skirt.
Finally at the apex of this surprisingly mountainous inner-city green space, I breathlessly suggested we return this monstrosity and find a bar, to which she, as always, acquiesced.
Careening downhill, I discovered the brakes were non-functioning so, approaching the speed of light, I abandoned all pretence of politeness, simply screaming ‘Achtung’ at the suddenly impressively nimble old ladies taking their weekly constitutional.
From behind me, I hear a delightfully oblivious ‘Wheeeee!’
I thoroughly recommend this short video:
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Poor beleaguered man! Well, at least you had fun & adventure while it lasted!😅
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Absolutely brilliant, a laugh from beginning to end and not a dead body in sight – at least I hope not, though I fear a little for die damen!
My loss of all words German at that moment was instant and hilarious!
And those alte Fraus could really scamper!
Absolutely charming! Jenne highlighted the same line I had in mind so I won’t repeat it here but your subtlety in that sentence is grin-worthy.
Your ex sounds like a girl after my own heart.
Thanks, Nancy, it’s a mostly true story.
And she was, and still is, the best person I’ve ever known.
Big smile here – what a delightful story.
And, as always, it’s your way of describing events that makes them alive on the screen/page.
The beguiling image of ‘… she was not contributing fully to the propulsion of our vehicle, but was waving prettily to the young men who stood admiring her lovely legs under her wind-blown skirt.’
The incongruity of ‘… the suddenly impressively nimble old ladies taking their weekly constitutional’.
And the wee video is enchanting – thanks for sharing it.
Thanks, Jenne, this was fun to write too.
And the images in the video are just great!
what a fun/enjoyable/sweet story(ette).
put us on the side of the street with a perfect view yo, is all you did.
Laughing. Cheers, Clark, glad it worked for you.
Weeeeeee 😂 great story!
Wheee! Great comment!
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