Word count: 100
“What’s that?”
“What’s what?”
“That wooden thingie.”
“A flute case?”
“Flute cases don’t have holes.”
“Those look like holes you stick little thingies into.”
“What kind of thingies?”
“Little thingies. They’re called, like, widgets.”
“But what’s the wooden thingie for?”
“It looks like part of a game.”
“We need one of those books. Like a backwards dictionary. Where you look up a picture.”
“How do you look up a picture?”
“Well, there’s some kind of book where you can do that.”
“What’s it called?”
“Wait! I remember. The game. My aunt plays it. It’s called ‘cabbage.’”
“We need a librarian.”
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FRIDAY FICTIONEERS is a weekly challenge to write a 100-word story in response to a photo prompt. To read other Friday Fictioneers’ stories, click on the frog. To participate, find the rules and the photo prompt at Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’ blog.
M. K. Waller 
Either you know or not.
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For several minutes, I didn’t.
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Dear Kathy,
Cabbage? That made me chuckle.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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I’m glad it made you chuckle. The challenge is fun. Thanks for sponsoring it.
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LOL
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You’ve given me so many LOLs, I’m glad I could give one back. Thanks.
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Cabbage. That’s really funny 🙂
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Thank you. It took me forever to figure out “cribbage.”
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“cabbage?” close but no cigar. 🙂
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Unfortunately, my speakers are fated to remain smokeless. 🙂
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Although it was a familiar sight I still had to stop and think for a moment.
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I had to think for longer than a moment. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cribbage board in person.
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So that’s what it is! I’ve got a game called cheese…or is chess?
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Probably cheese.
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Hahaha nicely done. Great vibe in this one 😀
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Thank you!
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It is amazing how many thingys get lost in just a generation or two.
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That’s true. So many things have been lost in my lifetime.
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I really liked the light-hearted flow of this oiece that really garbs at culture and the way we interpret words – but also the way the mind can morph things and the way times change!
and what is a librarian? kidding
Why did the librarian always carry a pencil? Because she wanted to draw attention!
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A librarian is the person who warns you that the info you’re printing out to use in your high school research paper comes from a seventh-grade research paper the teacher required students to post online. (That time, I was the hero. Sometimes I was the villain.)
Thanks for the comment. And for the laugh.
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