Showing posts with label incivility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label incivility. Show all posts

Friday, January 29, 2016

Just When I Think I've Seen Everything Department



     It was just another day at water aerobics until I stepped into one of the shower stalls to wash off all that industrial-strength chlorine.

          This is what I found:

          So let’s see if we can picture this. Someone felt the need to replenish her protein levels while she was showering?

          Possible scenarios:

She’s such an efficient multi-tasker that she eats as she bathes.
She’s so important and in such high demand that when confronted with the choice of eating or bathing, she cleverly decided to do both.
She’s a binge eater, but in a good way, judging by her choice of nosh.
She’d had a workout that drove her blood sugar levels to a dangerous low and had barely enough strength to stagger into the shower with her protein shake and protein bar. 
She’s an inconsiderate slob who couldn’t even be bothered to pick up after herself.

Friday, April 10, 2015

Foreign Hostility

                                        
             
                                

          My timing was off.

Thursday, August 28, 2014

One Wrong Makes a Right

This is my latest contribution to

Five Sentence Fiction

The prompt for this week is 

                  Conflict

You will find other entries at









      Her workdays, boundless, endless, brutal, were at other people’s homes, places with one skewed couch, substituting for a bedroom, the magazine picture on the wall a sad reach for beauty. 

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

My brush with caffeine rage





In early April the news and YouTube were filled with the story of a young man and his paraplegic sister at Camp Pendleton who after a minor fender-bender were startled to  see a man standing next to their car screaming at them. Moments before,