It’s Saturday but a lot of people will be celebrating Easter tomorrow, so let’s be quick. David and I decided to meet for a quick beer before continuing our errands. While we’re here, maybe we can handle Linda G. Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt.
“Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is ‘starts with gen.’ Find a word that starts with ‘gen’ and use it in your post. Have fun!”
If we were having a beer, you’d need a favor.
“Hi Cheryl.”
“Hi David. Dan’s not here yet, but he’s not late. You are early, my friend. Can I get you some John Howell’s Bourbon?”
“Only if you’re sure Dan is coming. Add to that, I hope he’s in a generous mood—I forgot my wallet.”
“I’ll hold a tab open, or you can pay with your phone.”
“I’m sure you or Skippy could pay with my phone, but I sure don’t know how.”
“Don’t know how to do what, David?”
“Dan, it’s good to see you. I was just telling Cheryl that I forgot my wallet. I was hoping you could pay.”
“I paid last week when Brad was here, but I guess I can cover you again.”
“That’s’ good. Cheryl was going to make me pay with my phone.”
“That might be fun to watch. Cheryl, I’d like a Modelo, and put a bourbon on my tab for this bum.”
“OK, Dan, since we’re only going to be here for one beer, I have a question about this contest you’re having.”
“The contest? The one for my books? That’s over.”
“No, the thing with the door photos.”
“Here you go, John Howell’s Bourbon for the beggar and an ice cold Modelo for his benefactor.”
“Cheers David. The Thursday Doors Writing Challenge isn’t a contest—there are no prizes.”
“But do you have to be a door person to write something?”
“No, that’s the whole point of the challenge. It’s a chance for non-door people to participate in Thursday Doors.”
“So, if I wanted to write something, I could.”
“Sure.”
“How long does it have to be?”
“I don’t care. You could write a short poem, a short story, a novella, a book, a play, a movie script—anything you feel like writing after seeing one of those doors.”
“Do you already have doors?”
“We do. There will be more, but we already have a few. They’ll be available tomorrow.”
“And the deadline?”
“You can publish your stuff any time between May first and May thirty-first. I’ll add them to the page as they arrive, and I’ll include an update on Thursdays and in the Sunday recap throughout the month.”
“OK, thanks.”
“Are you going to write something?”
“I don’t know. We’ll see. Can you do me a favor?”
“Sure.”
“Can you lend me twenty dollars?”
“I suppose. Why?”
“I have to stop on the way home to get some heavy cream, and I don’t have my wallet.”
“You could pay with your phone.”
“If I didn’t want to pay with my phone in the company of my good friends, I sure don’t want to try at the grocery store in front of a million strangers.”
“Here. Here’s a twenty.”
“What the heck is that?”
“Huh? A twenty-dollar bill.”
“No, that paper that fell out of your wallet.”
“Oh that. That’s the list of stuff I have to pick up on the way home.”
“What are all those lines?”
“My wife got a phone call before she finished telling me what to get. I was doodling on the pad.”
“You might want to see a shrink about that. That looks a little deranged to me.”
“Did Mark Twain, or Thomas Edison see a shrink? Did Winston Churchill see a shrink? Did Ronald Reagan or…”
“What’s you point, Dan?”
“They all doodled.”
“And you know this, how?”
“It was on the back of my Pearls Before Swine page-a-day calendar.”
“I see, and authoritative source. So you think you’re in the same league as them?”
“That would be a very generous comparison, David. Let’s just say I like having something in common with them.”
“Dan, Cheryl, have a Happy Easter!”
Happy Easter to everyone who celebrates!
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