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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday, BeThere2Day, and Sandee at Comedy Plus.
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Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and has become a moveable feast of word or picture or music prompts to encourage us to write stories, poems, or whatever strikes our fancy.
This month, yours truly is providing the prompts on my blog. Next month, please join River as she provides the prompts.
Please feel free to use some of the prompts, none of them, or all of them as you see fit. The point is to get the creative juices flowing in whatever manner your muse leads you.
This week the prompts are:
consider
second
sink
instinct
face
flash
and/or the following random sentence
My daughter always said she doesn't get mad, she gets even.
Charlotte/Mother Owl has also chosen Mouse Grey as the color of the month, which you may use as a prompt if you wish.
Grandmother, mother and three-year-old granddaughter had been out shopping, and it was more than time for some refreshment. They decided to go to their favorite Asian restaurant for lunch.
The usual crowd was there, including a table of police officers in uniform, having their lunch break together.
The child, young enough to have no filter and see nothing wrong with saying everything that went through her little brain, said, "Look, mama, they're dressed like Uncle Piggy!"
It took only a SECOND for the child's observation to start to SINK in. Once it did, each officer had a look on his FACE which can only be imagined.
Before any of them could even quite CONSIDER how to respond, grandmother knew by INSTINCT she had to head this off. Her older son was an officer and in a FLASH she was at their table.
"Some of you might know my son, Dave Smith? He's in precinct 17."
A couple of the officers did know him, and tension began to ease.
"Well, he teased his little sister mercilessly when they were kids, and my daughter always said she doesn't get mad, she gets even. When she had children, to get him back for how he treated her, she taught the kids to call him 'Uncle Piggy!'"
Uproarious laughter ensued and the tension drained away. Mother, who had turned Mouse Grey at her daughter's comment, began to come back to her normal coloring. The officers agreed it was indeed a fine way to pay back Dave, and everyone went back to enjoying their repast.
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Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day, taking time out to remember the pets that are gone but not forgotten.
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Today is:
Be Kind to Humankind Week: Willing to Lend a Hand Wednesday
Birthday of Nephthys -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Crackers Over the Keyboard Day -- internet generated: are we supposed to go crackers over our keyboard, or tempt fate by eating crackers over our keyboard?
Festival for Luna -- Ancient Roman Calendar
Festival for Sol -- Ancient Roman Calendar
International Birman Day -- celebrating the "sacred cat of Burma" (not to be confused with the Burmese breed)
La Tomatina -- Buñol, Valencia, Spain (annual citywide food fight festival in which around 30,000 people take to the streets to pelt each other with tomatoes)
Mariamoba -- Georgia (Assumption of the Virgin, celebrated based on the Julian Calendar followed by many Orthodox Churches)
National Bow Tie Day -- US, as per Bow Tie Aficionado (may i suggest bow tie pasta for dinner?)
National Cheese Sacrifice Day (Now you know why you purchased the cheese for the sacrifice! To let it age properly before the actual sacrifice. Still doesn't answer why we sacrifice it, anyway, or to whom.)
National Cherry Turnover Day
Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day -- Wellcat Holidays suggests this to pep yourself up as you wait for things to come up on the screen
Radio Commercials Day -- the first paid radio commercial was broadcast over WEAF of New York on this day in 1921
St. Augustine of Hippo's Day (Patron of brewers, printers, theologians; Bridgeport, Connecticut; Cagayan de Oro, Philippines; Carpineto Romano, Italy; Ida, Philippines; Isleta Indian Pueblo; Kalamazoo, Michigan; Ponte Nizza, Italy; Saint Augustine, Florida; Superior, Wisconsin; Tucson, Arizona; Valletta, Malta; against sore eyes)
St. Hermes of Rome's Day (Patron of Acquapendente, Italy; Forte dei Marmi, Lucca, Italy)
Subway Day -- this date in 1965, 17-year-old Fred DeLuca opened what became the first Subway Sandwich Shop
Birthdays Today
LeAnn Rimes, 1982
Jack Black, 1969
Jason Priestley, 1969
Shania Twain, 1965
Emma Samms, 1960
Scott Hamilton, 1958
Daniel Stern, 1957
Rick Rossovich, 1957
David Soul, 1946
Lou Piniella, 1943
Paul Martin, 1938
Donald O'Connor, 1925
Ben Gazzara, 1930
Roger Tory Peterson, 1908
Charles Boyer, 1899
Leo Tolstoy, 1828
Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1774
Johann von Goethe, 1749
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Lohengrin"(Opera), 1850
Today in History
The Third Crusade begins with the seige of Acre, 1189
6,000 Jews are killed in Mainz, accused of being the cause of the plague, 1349
St. Augustine, FL, founded, making it the oldest continuously occupied European city and port in the US, 1565
Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay, 1609
William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn, 1789
The first steam locomotive in the US, the "Tom Thumb", runs from Baltimore to Ellicotts Mill, 1830
The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published, 1845
The United States takes possession of the, at this point unoccupied, Midway Atoll, 1867
Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola", 1898
James E. Casey begins the United Parcel Service in Seattle, WA, 1907
WEAF in NYC airs the very first radio commercial, for Queensboro Realty, at a cost of $100 for ten minutes, 1922
Toyota Motors becomes an independent company, 1937
Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first tv show and ad, 1953
Motown releases what would be its first #1 hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes, 1961
Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech; Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie are murdered in their Manhattan flat, prompting the events that would lead to the passing of the Miranda Rights, 1963
The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men; these will soon be recognized as symptoms of an immune disorder, which will be called AIDS, 1981
Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province, 1990
Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales divorce, 1996
An electric blackout leaves 500,000 + without power and shuts down 60% of London's Underground, 2003
Hurricane Katrina begins to make landfall on the Gulf of Mexico, 2005
Lakhdar Brahimi, UN Special Envoy to Syria, says international law states that any action in response to Syria's use of chemical weapons must be decided by the UN Security Council, 2013
Kenya institutes the world's toughest ban on plastic bags with a possible US$38,000 fine or up to four years in jail, 2017
Japanese tech company SkyDrive says it has completed the first manned test flight of a flying car, 2020
A 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card becomes the world's most expensive piece of sports memorabilia, selling for $12.6 million at auction, 2022
Love your story. Grandma saves the day.
ReplyDelete‘My daughter always said that she doesn’t get mad, she gets even.’ I suppose that is true, but she adds interest to the bill as well. How I wish that before instinct takes over that she would consider (even for a second) that her actions are the way that feuds begin.
I can conceal nothing from her. My face gives me away every time, and in a flash she turns on me. I love her and I always will but she sees no grey shades in life but only black and white. In my experience there is a LOT more grey, and some of her actions fall firmly into that camp. There is soft grey, mouse grey, and charcoal grey. I do hope that she doesn’t trend more firmly to the darker side of the equation.
I hope the daughter learns the shades of grey can be more forgiving than straight black and white. My mother was a black and white person.
DeleteGood job EC, as always. Hope she goes to the softer side.
DeleteTrue about the grays in life. I hope the daughter learns to temper her reactions.
DeleteWe have to leave room to give grace. Nice use of the prompts, and thank you for herding the cats and heading up the Words for Wednesday so it doesn't die out.
DeleteGreat story, little kids do say the funniest things sometimes. "no-one" also has a waterbowl with pebbles so bees and dragonflies can drink safely.
ReplyDeleteGrandma saves the day indeed, but -- cultural differences is at fault, I'm sure -- if one of my kids had said the same, no harm would have been done. And "Uncle Piggy" sounds quite innocent to me - where's the trap?
ReplyDeleteI am replying here and on your blog so you will be sure to see it. in US English at least, calling a police officer or security officer a "pig" is a pejorative term and considered a horrible insult.
DeleteThanks for the explanation. We would have the same problem - and maybe a fine - for a grown-up using the equivalent of "pig", whereas the equivalent of the childish "piggy" would not bring troubles.
DeleteWhat a good story kids can alway be funny ha
ReplyDeleteHave a beetastic week 👍
My wild honey bees swarm my bird baths all day long everyday. They never sting me when I go out and clean the bath and give them fresh water. I've only ever found one drowned over the years. But there have been occasions when I do lift one out of the water that is swimming and hasn't made it to the side yet.
ReplyDeleteWe have never thought about bees needing water or having drowning issues. At our house we are just happy when they stay far away from us and our house.
ReplyDeleteThat was a good story! Interesting, I didn't know drowning was a problem.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great way to care for the bees. I had no idea.
ReplyDeleteLove your story. Beautiful.
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Bravo Mimi. Not just for this story but for all the good prompts you gave us this month. I had fun and my story today is posted on my blog.
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ReplyDeleteLulu: "The other day we were out on the patio with Dada and there was a bee getting water from in between the cracks in the stamped concrete!"
ReplyDeleteI loved your story Mimi. Too cute, and any of us who have been with kids who say things innocently, but could be taken in a different way, understand Grandmother's actions completely!
ReplyDeleteThis is my take on the words
ReplyDeleteI always told her boyfriends, if I were you I would not, for even one second, consider crossing her. My daughter always said "she doesn't get mad, she gets even".
If someone she was dating disagreed with her about anything, it was taken as a challenge or insult to her intelligence. Once that happened it was game on as she prepared for battle. Of course, it ultimately meant the end of every relationship. Guys who could not hold their own with her came and went.
Then along came Chuck. I am not sure if it was his handsome face, his charming personality, or ability to see what was below her fiery surface, probably a combination of everything, but he actually hung around.
All I know is for the first time in her life, that combative instinct lessened, not exactly in a flash, but over time and she was finally able to compromise and actually be pleasant while doing it.
Meanwhile, I stood back and let it sink in, that I was watching, in real time, a real life version of Petruchio and Katarine play out. And for the first time a lasting relationship looks possible.
Anne in the kitchen: It sounds as if she has finally met her match - and what relationship isn't built on compromise. I do love your stories.
DeleteGood for him! He sounds like just what she needs. Nice use of the prompts and thanks for playing along with us.
DeleteThat is a good idea for the bees. Funny story. :) XO
ReplyDeleteThat was a good story and a lesson for all not to jump to conclusions by what others may say. It isn't always as it seems, but in today's world, one has to be so careful. Good work from Grandma
ReplyDeleteWoos - Misty and Timber
Late to the party, but my Words for Wednesday posted on my blog early this morning. It has been a crazy busy work day and I'm just now getting to read everyone else's wonderful contributions.
ReplyDeleteYour story made us smile! And thank you for being kind to the bees. The hot, dry weather is tough for them, for sure.
ReplyDeleteCute story. Interesting about the bees.
ReplyDeleteWow! Great info about bees and water and lovely story ~ thanks, hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Kids can lead us into awkward situations sometimes. I now know how to offer bees some liquid refreshment!
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