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