WHERE THERE’S SMOKE
Why can’t we stay up till midnight on New Year’s Eve?? What are they doing?
I don’t know. Lift me up so that I can see over the counter…. Nuthin’ much, just drinkin’ cola outta glasses, talkin’ and smokin’.
Uncle Bob doesn’t buy his cigarettes at a store. I think he picks his own tobacco in the woods – he calls it skunk-weed. What’re they talkin’ about?
Nuthin’ really. It doesn’t make sense to me, but it must be funny, ‘cause they’re all laughin’ a lot.
I’m gonna have chips and dip and Cheezies for New Year’s when I’m an adult.
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Some adults never grow up. As Rochelle’s site says, ‘Growing old is inevitable. Growing up is optional.’ At least these kids were supposed to be in bed, but little mice have big noses. Celebrate New Year’s any way you want, but stay safe. Let’s do this again next year. 😀
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If you’d like to have some fun – in a non-smoking household – go to Rochelle’s Addicted to Purple site and use her Wednesday photo as a prompt to write a complete 100 word story.
Happy New Year, Archon. I was asleep by midnight and up by 309 AM.
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You’re my kind of partier. At my age, my back goes out more than I do. 🙄
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Great dialogue, describing an adult party through the eyes of children 🙂
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Not for New Year’s, but I observed a party like this. As the responsible adult babysitter, I kept an intelligent 10-year-old boy entertained, and watched his parents from the kitchen. The next day the mother (tried to) justify smoking marijuana by telling me that it released their creativity, and they were discussing inspirations for various writing assignments. That’s not what we heard in the kitchen. 😯
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I have no personal experience with marijauna, but we ran a small mom/pop motel for three years. I hated it when I opened the door of a room that needed to be cleaned and smelled the distinctive odor. Why did I hate it? Because there was always an awful, incredible MESS to deal with, including heaps of ashes and butts, wine and/or beer all over the place, messes on the carpets, vomit on the bathroom floor (just missed the toilet) and worse. If that’s having creativity released, No thanks.
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Wishing you a happy and wonderful New Year 2021.
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Thank you James. I will do my part. 😀
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Happy New Year, GOD! ◟(◔ั₀◔ั )◞ ༘2021
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And the same to you – even if you get yours half a day earlier than I do. 😉 🙂
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(*^▽^)/
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You’ve got to accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don’t mess with Mister In-Between
You’ve got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
Have faith or pandemonium
Liable to walk upon the scene
To illustrate his last remark
Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark
What did they do
Just when everything looked so dark
Man, they said we better, accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don’t mess with Mister In-Between
No, do not mess with Mister In-Between
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That used to be a nice song, with a pleasant sentiment, until America became a Red State/Blue State, polarized country. Still, we can hope. It seems like Biden may be able to knock a few of the rougher corners off. 😀
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Dear Archon,
The “magic” of greeting the new year at midnight died a long time ago. It’s going to get here whether I’m awake or not. So I choose not. 😉 Happy New Year to you.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanx Rochelle! 😀 Here’s to another creative, enjoyable year for all of us.
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Chip and Dip and Cheezies sounds grand!!
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Good…. and good for you. Let’s hope that they don’t develop the usual, even less healthy, more-adult tastes. 🙂
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My kids used to wait until we and our dinner guests were merry before coming downstairs, all sweet in pyjamas, to beg a little of the pudding they’d seen me preparing earlier.
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That’s a lovely English image. Thanx for stopping by to share it. 🙂
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Love the eyes of children view of what is definitely a boring party to them…
Happy New Year!
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Thanx Dale, and a great new year to you and all of us, when things get back to normal. 😀
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Thanks, Archon… eventually, they will, right? 😉
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I say they will, and I’m G.O.D. so you can believe it. 😉 😀
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😂🤣
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Such a fun story. I’m glad people are gathering and having a fun time, if only in fiction 🙂
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We shall overcome! Fiction shall become fact – eventually. In the meantime, stay safe. 😀
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🙂
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Happy New Year, Archon. I set my alarm for 11:30 p.m. but woke up at 4:30 a.m. and missed the festivities this year. Oh well, these days I can just watch the Youtube videos.
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Happy belated New Year to you. It’s just an arbitrary point in time. Actually, multiple points of time – there’d been about 16 “New Years” by the time it got to us. You didn’t miss anything. The world rolls on whether we’re conscious or not. 😳
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Those parties really weren’t around until I was one of the adults, but I enjoyed looking back from the children’s point of view. Nice job.
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Thanx for the visit. It’s often interesting to look at something through someone else’s perspective. 🙂
A hole has been found in the fence around the nudist camp…. Police are looking into it. 😉 😆
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