PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot
RATS! CURSES!
“The moon is made of green cheese. Pass it on.”
“What??!”
“Don’t mind me. That’s just something I say, to pass time while I’m stuck in a line. Sometimes people ‘get it’, and pass it on. I hate being in long lines. We’re just like those birds, only without a guiding wire, or a string of elephants, each holding the tail of the one in front.”
“Don’t you touch my tail buddy!”
“Well, the wait is worth it. I look forward to my morning Starbucks latté.”
“Starbucks??! That’s that line mister. This line is for Justin Bieber concert tickets.”
Aargh!!!
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Got to Rochelle’s Addicted to Purple site and use her Wednesday photo as a prompt to write a complete 100 word story.
Archon's Den 
As long as they stay on the line and don’t swoop down and peck eyes out. If someone said that to me in line, I’d laugh so hard and likely pass it on. After all, I’d likely never see them again, right?
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Got a thing about birds, have we? Old enough to have watched Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’?
I wouldn’t want to see Beliebers again….but the Starbucks crowd…. We are creatures of habit. I see the same people and cars in the same place at the same time of day, over and over.
“Hmmm, the guy with the red Veloster must be sick. He’s not here today.”
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Birds in a huge flock are intimidating, especially when they swoop. The chances of being pooped on also increase. My 9 year old nephew is old enough to watch “The Birds”. He laughed. Is Beebs even popular, still? If I leave my house within a 3 minute span of time, I see a jeep with a “Life is Good” tag on the spare tire cover. It even has a smiley face. If I leave earlier or later, no jeep.
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Bieber? Ugh.
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Yeah, it was the worst Karma I could think of. Either him or the merry widow,
Senile…uh, Celine. 😯LikeLike
Yeah, we liked him so much we exported him.
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Oh Bieber concert line…hmm no thank you!
But I would have happily passed along a line like that and then laughed out loud! 😀
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Oh, I’d be willing to stand in line with you. You get a joke. 😆
We could make fun of Bieber and his tweeny
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Hahaha! Cute and funny. Always a line somewhere for something. Loved the Bieber tickets.
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I don’t know what it’s like in Russia these days. Many women didn’t work because they had to stand in lines all day, just to get a loaf of bread and a cabbage.
I don’t know what it is about Canadian entertainers like Bieber and Celine Dion. There’s no middle ground. People either love them or hate them. 😯
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True.
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That would definitely get people talking, I would think.
Nothing worse than waiting in the wrong line!!!
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It’s Catch-22 I guess. He needed the coffee to be alert enough to get in the coffee line. 😕
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Bieber? Suddenly I lost my appetite for coffee and donuts!
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The best thing I read about him is that he is touring in the United States – or even better, Japan. His absence does make the heart grow fonder. 😯
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I have a couple of little pet finch birds and I play a little game with them. I reach into their cages to touch their tails gently and they let me for a minute or two and then they fly off to the other side of their cage and look at me with an expression that seems to say, “Enough tail touching for now … stir up our seed bowls for us please.”
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We humans like to think we’re at the apex of creation. Our pets teach us different. I have four cats. Like your birds, it’s, “Nice of you to skritch my butt….but where’s the kibble/catnip/water?” 😆
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What a mistake to make! Let’s hope no-one’s spotted him in the Bieber line and he can sneak over to the coffee line with no-one the wiser 🙂
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Oh, he could discreetly get into the coffee line, but then he’d be way back at the back again, and he’d be late for work.. Better if he just takes the day off and attends the Bieber concert. Without the caffeine, he’s less likely to assault someone. 🙂
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Better late than Bieber 🙂
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If I was him I would buck the trend and head down to an independent coffee shop. The cakes are bigger and the queues less long. 🙂
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The independents are getting harder and harder to find. Even with them, pastry sizes are becoming standardized. 🙂
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Hahaha, that was too funny. Standing in line with you sounds like fun.
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Oh yes! People will point and laugh. 😆
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Dear Archon,
Show me to the Starbucks line.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Okay, but then I have to hustle to find a Tim Horton’s. 😯 (That’s Canadian for Krispy-Kreme, eh.)
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Hilarious, Archon. He’ll need the coffee more than ever after that. 😀 — Suzanne
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And maybe a little Kahlua in it, to calm his nerves, after almost being exposed to
the Zika virusBieber. 😯LikeLike