PHOTO PROMPT © Brenda Cox
THE WILD WEST
And that, ladies and gentlemen, concludes today’s Tourist Tram Trip to the Potsdam Paintball Palace. Please follow the umpire to your left. He is not a forensic technician, investigating a murder. Please turn in the protective eye wear that you were issued. You may keep your paper safeguard suits. Any bruises incurred, should fade in about a week. Tomorrow, they will be colors that match your suits.
For those of you not already sufficiently spun, you may take a complementary ride on our Pinwheel Carousel.
(Crazy Americans! We have restaurants, history and art museums. They come here to shoot guns??!) 🙄
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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 
To heck with the paper suits, paint guns and carousel. I want to ride that bus!
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It sure is colorful, isn’t it?? 😎
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So that’s how the tram got splattered with those colourful splodges! A great take.
Here’s mine!
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The son, whose eyesight is better than mine, insists that the splotches are colorful flowers. 😳
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Maybe, but I prefer your interpretaion!
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What an interesting take on this prompt! Personally? I’ll do the museums, please 🙂
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Me too! I didn’t go to New York City, to meet a girl from my home town – or to shoot paintball guns, when there’s an arena just down the street, that I’ve been ignoring for years. Ars gratia artes! 🙂
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Always learning. I had to look up the Latin phrase. I’d guessed, came close 🙂
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I spelled it wrong. I must have been thinking of “ars est celare artem” = The art is to conceal the art. This one’s meaning is here. https://www.bing.com/search?q=ars+gratia+artis+meaning&form=PRCAEN&httpsmsn=1&msnews=1&refig=04be0609022e4a06b17d927444d8f3f5&sp=1&qs=SC&pq=ars+gratia+artes&sk=PRES1&sc=8-16&cvid=04be0609022e4a06b17d927444d8f3f5 It’s always good to learn something new 🙂
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Nicely done! I love this take on the prompt.
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Thanx! I can usually be trusted (?) to find an oblique viewpoint. 🙂
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I love that, finding unique ways to take a prompt creates the most interesting of stories.
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Groan. Around here they are becoming a fashion statement. Well done.
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Thanx. It’s the curse of living in an urban area. My small tourist home town has been threatened with a McDonalds for over ten years, but it still hasn’t happened. 😀
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Lovely twisty ending! But so absolutely true, right! People travel supposedly to discover the new, but always wanting, on some level, the familiar and comfortable. Well done and written! Loved the imaginative take on this 🙂
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Thanx very much. You’re right (and so am I). People want different, but not too different. 🙂
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yup, just enough to make it seem spectacular while being familiar
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