Writing is like being able to put life into a snow globe. It takes the things that are too big and scary and reduces them into a form that I can put away when I want and look at from a distance. It also takes all that’s good in life and captures it into something I can take out when I want and look at close up and keep forever. It makes the bad things into something I can hold…and the good things into something I can hold onto. Both help so much that I need that little souvenir of life.

Monday, June 22, 2015

Succinctly Yours Week 222: Hope Floats But Bikes Are a Drag

It’s time again for Succinctly Yours, a weekly meme made possible by the illustrious Grandma of Grandma’s Goulash. Grandma posts a photo each Sunday with the challenge to come up with a story of 140 words or 140 characters or fewer to go with it. The bonus word this week was “quantify.” I struggled with that word and confess that I may not have used it properly.

It was hard to quantify the boys’ stupidity. Ma told them to buy a boat for the fishing business, but their idea to switch modes of transportation didn’t hold water.  136

Gilbert thought water cycling would be a good idea. While his calculations allowed for the amount of water in a lake, he forgot to quantify the amount of mud.  129

It was impossible to quantify the boys’ love of James Bond. Unlike Bond’s vehicle, however, theirs did not become a submarine when it hit the lake, they discovered.   137

The bike thieves failed to quantify the Girl Scout’s moxie. That tough cookie had installed on-vehicle security that enabled remote navigation…into the lake.  135

We look out for ourselves and too often make the mistake of confusing reality with our limited perception of it.  ~Hal Urban

12 comments:

  1. Hari OM
    ...hehehe..submarine... not.... Loved these Tammy...(mine was influenced by news this very weekend of a second drowning in a quarry 'lake' of a youth - one earlier this year - here in Scotland. It couldn't be ignored...) YAM xx

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    1. I'm so sorry about both young people, YAM! Thank you for explaining how you got such lovely, lyrical depth out of a picture that I found funny. Now at least I don't have to feel like I'm just callous...!

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  2. A bonus one today! I have to admit, I loved the idea of the 4th one... It made me laugh.

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    1. I figure the technology will exist soon if it doesn't already. Is it me, or does that bike seem awfully small and pink for those big boys??

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  3. I like their unofficial uniform. Hat. Shorts. Nothing matching.

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    1. I know! No fashion sense at all. They are clearly not keeping up with the Kardashians.

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  4. I love the last one best. Girl Power! :)

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  5. You are so darn funny. Just read all your posts (that I hadn't been able to read until now) and wow, I don't know how you do it... you're the best! And as with all of them, it is always hard to choose which one is the best!

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  6. I'm not sure I could come up with one winner for this picture and you've got four! Thanks for the smiles.

    Pat
    Critter Alley

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  7. I'm not sure I could come up with one winner for this picture and you've got four! Thanks for the smiles.

    Pat
    Critter Alley

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  8. It's hard to quantify how much I liked all four of them. Girls and technology was, of course, my favorite.

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