The Bettermost Drabblefest: Please Join In!

[Luvlylittlewing]

Sunday night, February 29, 1976, and virtually every middle-class home in Childress, Texas, had its television tuned to ABC. Not every day that a movie like “The Sound of Music” comes on TV for the first time. Solid family entertainment, and Lureen had made sure that her family watched it. When the movie was over, she couldn’t stop praising Julie Andrews’ voice, and Bobby talked about how exciting it was when the family escaped from the bad guys at the end. Jack’s only comment was, “Sure got them some pretty mountains over there.”

Beautiful!  Just beautiful!

[mariez]

     "Ennis how many years we been married now," Jack asked? " I think its eight" he replied.  "Well you would think that
by now those stupid, people at the power company would have our address right."  "Why whats wrong with it bud?"  "Well
we been livin in this same house that whole time, and they still can't seem to get it right."  "I have called and called them over
and over again, and it don't help none."   "Where do they have us at?"  "1722 Wall street.  Instead of 1722 Hall Street."  "They
must think we're some o' those dumbass frauds up there in New York."  " Heh, probly  so."
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   Really clever, Janice!  Thanks.

Buffy, Fern and Marie - great to see all of you here!   

Marie

[mariez]

Some random prompts for today:

• ambitious
• different
• competent

Marie

[Penthesilea]

There was a reason why he was so ambitious. He wanted to be the best salesman Newsome Farm Equipment ever had. LD thought it was the patronizing that had finally aroused his ambition, after two years of barely doing the minimum.

LD was wrong. His reason was a completely different one. It had sandy-brown hair that curled over the collar and brown eyes somewhere between honey and chocolate.

Jack wanted to be the most competent and successful salesman at Newsome's for as long as it would take to save enough money.

Now that he had found Ennis again, he needed every premium he could get. One of these days, they would have their own place.



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[Monika]

Good one, Chrissie

[ifyoucantfixit]

                                                   Lil Darlin

        "Mama, Jr asked quizzically."  "What does dumbass mean?"  "Well darlin, it means incompetent, indifferent, and no
ambition to make it different."  "Mama, what does indifferent mean?"



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[mariez]

It had sandy-brown hair that curled over the collar and brown eyes somewhere between honey and chocolate.

That's my idea of inspiration!  Wonderful, Chrissi!

                                                   Lil Darlin

        "Mama, Jr asked quizzically."  "What does dumbass mean?"  "Well darlin, it means incompetent, indifferent, and no
ambition to make it different."  "Mama, what does indifferent mean?"
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   It's obvious that you know the minds of children, Janice! 

Thanks,
Marie

[mariez]

Honored Heirlooms

She regarded her daughter with a kind of awe at times, and some envy, at how comfortably she achieved her goals.  Once upon a time, she'd held a secret desire to go to college, maybe become a writer.  A silly dream, of course; the only lady writer she'd known of was the one who'd written the "Who's Out and About!" column in the Women's Section of the paper.
 
She'd tucked that part of herself away the day she married L.D., her ambitions gathering dust like the heirlooms stored in the back of her closet, but she liked to believe she'd still managed to pass them on to her only child. 
 
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[mariez]

Okay, let's see if these prompts can inspire something! 

• keep your nose clean
• "gee whiz"
• chip on your shoulder

Marie

[mariez]

When The Chips Are Down

It seemed as if John C. Twist had been born with a chip on his shoulder, always daring someone to knock it off, but unwilling to remove it himself. 

He could feel it growing on his own shoulder sometimes –  when he'd followed Aguirre's sleep-with-the-sheep order, when he'd curried favor with that bastard L.D., when he'd been unable to help Bobby 'cause Lureen had the money and called the shots, when he'd driven 1,200 miles north for nothing -  but he'd always tried to shove it away. 

Because he wasn't no chip off the old block, that was for damn sure.   

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