The Show - Freewrite Day 116

in #freewrite7 years ago

      The waitress dropped a dollar on the table, saying "Said the new haircut looked like a sea hag's." as she rushed past carrying a tray of beers.

      "What was that about?" I asked as Alan pulled out his cell phone and started typing.

      "It's for the show." He put his phone away and picked up his beer, taking a long swig before turning to watch the band who had clearly just learned how to hold their instruments.

      Thinking she meant the scraggly hair of the keyboardist banging away, I agreed. "What, these guys? Are you kidding me? That's why I told you we should have gone down to Smokey's. He doesn't let his brother get anywhere near the stage."

      A man in a flannel walked up to the table, slammed down a dollar and firmly told Alan, "Blocked her truck at the post office." He waited, staring, until the Alan sighed and typed into his phone.

      "I forget one time..." Alan muttered under his breath. "Yeah. But The Canal has the best show."

      Just as I was about to tell him that his taste in music sucked, our librarian came over. Handing Alan a handful of bills she smiled and said, "She was three weeks overdue and refuses to pay the fine. I left a little gift in her yard."

      Alan lost it. Loud, deep belly laughs erupted from him as he put down his phone and began clapping. "Rose...", he gasped, "You're too damn much!"

      Through the next two songs, people continued to come to the table, adding to the pile of money while Alan typed furiously, trying to keep up.

      "Said Mrs. Furbottom was fat."

      "Left the extra side of sauce out of the bag."

      "Told Lisa where she really was Friday night."

      "Put her paper in the hedges."

      The awful brother's band was screeching through "Dirty Diana" when the door to the bar slammed open and Audrey stomped in. Alan grinned, looked over at me and said "Showtime!"

      Hair wild, eyes crazy, and wearing a snarl, Audrey strode through the bar, glaring at every table she passed. By the time she reached the center of the room, the band had stopped playing and all eyes were on her.

      Raising her hand, which held three bright and garishly cheerful plastic lawn flamingos she yelled, "Which one of you fuckers left these pink pieces of shit in my yard?"

      As the catcalls, screaming and mayhem commenced, I dropped my head into my hands. I lived in a town full of assholes.

Thank you @omra-sky for my beautiful Squirrple Necklace separator!


This story went longer than the five minutes.

Image by @brisby

For the 5 Minute Freewrite Prompt - canal by @mariannewest.
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ROFLMAO...ONCE AGAIN! You never disappoint @brisby! And I will never look at pink flamingos the same, ever again! I don't like them and cringe every time I see them. Now...I will crack up laughing every time I see them! Tip!

Yay!! I LOVE that I made you laugh! I think the real birds are pretty but anytime I see them on the lawn I have to chuckle. there's this one house by me where the yard is filled with flamingos, gnomes, frogs, and so many other lawn ornaments that it must take them an hour to pick them all up before they mow their yard! Thank you so much for reading and for the tip as well!

That is so funny. I bet it makes the lawn look trashy, especially if it is a small lawn.
The pleasure was all mine. Thank YOU for the laughs! : )

I love the characterization of this piece. You do such a great job with dialogue and I laughed so hard about the flamingos!

Thank you so much Janelle! 🌺! I appreciate that you enjoyed the dialogue since it's something that I've been trying to improve! The flamingos idea came from my mother. Years ago, she went to a company 4th of July party that was being held at the home of one of her supervisors. The man had an immaculate yard with professional landscaping. For a laugh, my mother brought a plastic pink flamingo and put in smack dab in the middle of his lawn as they were leaving. He didn't see it until the next morning and came into work swearing up a storm! He relaxed a bit once my mother told him that she did it though. LOL (His wife thought it was hilarious and sent pictures afterwards!)

Haha that's such a fun story and your practice is paying off judging by this gem!

This is some It's Always Sunny In Philly level fuckery. Great job!

Thanks! Love that show!

I'm very fond of those pink pieces of shit! Fascinating birds.
It's me again with the prompt for today:
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-118-5-minute-frewrite-wednesday-prompt-lace

Thanks for the prompt Deirdyweirdy! Flamingos are beautiful birds but I always laugh at the plastic ones. Especially those with the windmill wings!

Loved this!!

Thanks Snook! I love your Gold Star!!

Wow the final part of the flamingos was really fun! These pink pieces of shit buahahah...priceless Bris, more of this stuff in the freewrites! :-D

Grazie F3nix!! I'm glad that I gave you a laugh!

I loved reading this Brisby. It was funny too :)

I'm glad that you loved it! Thank you for the compliment 😁! I'm always happy to hear that someone had a laugh over something that I've written!

That was a really good scene! I also had to read it a second time to put all the pieces together, nice work.

Thank you! Looking back at it there's some things I think I would change just to make it a little easier to understand.

That is always the way with these 5 minute freewrites, you just have to let them flow.. But to be honest, I wouldn't change a thing, I really like it when I have think about something as I read it. It's like when you watch a great movie for a second time, and you spot so much more, because you understand more on the second viewing.

You are very talented @brisby. Thank you for writing!

Thank you for the compliment! You're so kind to say so! 🌼 I'm glad that you liked the story!

I love your humor so much! Great job! You are so talented and paint the pictures so well with your words :)

Thank you so much! I'm happy that I made you laugh! And you are too sweet for giving me such a wonderful comment!

I speak the truth :) your very welcome!!

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