PHOTO PROMPT – © Adam Ickes
BRIDGE OF SIZE
It was love at first sight when Rintoo and Sasheen first met at the little church at the bottom of their long, marshy valley, when they were 14.
It was much too far to walk all the way around, but Rintoo had a plan. Whenever he had some free time; post by post, plank by plank, the causeway grew. Finally, it was finished.
On his way back from a visit to Sasheen, he met a local farmer, wandering across.
“But I spent my labor and timber!”
He became rich when he put a tollbooth in the middle – and married Sasheen.
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Go 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 
The joys of capitalism…
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Ah yes, life is a series – a huge collection – of joys. 😛
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An entrepreneur!
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Like many things in life – guys like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates set out simply to provide a service, but – he might as well be paid (if extravagantly) for his labor. 🙂
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Ha. A toll at an atoll,
Randy
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Go stand in the corner until you understand that remarks like that aren’t punny….FUNNY….I’ll go stand with you. 😳
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Meet me at the Toll House, cookie….
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Mommy….He stole my joke! 😉 😆
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At least they can’t sneak up on you out there.
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You only have to man one booth. And….you create a captive audience. They don’t walk up, notice the fee, and walk away. Halfway across, it’s as easy to pay the charge, as it is to walk all the way back, disappointed. Gun-barrel negotiating! 😳
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Nice work. I would like to think he would build it for all to share, but I guess money is money in a capitalist society!
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If an Arab with a bridge to Detroit can do it, so can a hard-working kid in the sticks. That was a lot of hypothetical labor and material. 😉
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A realistic story, well written, though I was hoping for an altruistic ending!
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I suppose I should have gone that way. After all, this is supposed to be fiction, but I didn’t know what to do with that gazebo out in the middle, and reality
protrudedintruded. 😆LikeLike
He was a smart young man. Good writing, Archon. 🙂 — Suzanne
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It’s another example of ‘The Law of Unanticipated Consequences.’ Thanx for the read. 🙂
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