This response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt, Perplexed, is my stab at a little mad whimsy in honor of Roald Dahl’s 100th birthday yesterday.
The girl in the bed with a cat on her head hit the clock on the table and started this fable.
“SHUT UP!” she said, slapping the snooze, licking her lips, still tasting the booze.
Just right then, the clock drew the line. All he had done was keep the right time.
He’d done so for years, every second and minute, buzzing and ringing, his whole heart in it.
And what did he get in return every morning? A hello, thank you or respectable warning?
No, nope, certainly not. A hard, mean slap on the head he got.
Enough abuse he decided today and turned off his snooze button. YAY.
The girl and the cat slept for hours and hours. The cat awoke first and swatted the flowers.
CRASH went the vase from table to floor. The naughty cat laughed and ran out the door.
The girl sat up straight and looked at the clock.
She squinted and gasped and stared unbelieving…confused, not amused, vexed and perplexed.
“I’m late! So late!” she yelled and cried. She missed her plane, smashed the clock, rolled over and died.
A suggestion to all who slam the snooze button: be nice to your clock.
September 14, 2016 at 12:18 pm
I LOVE THIS!!!!!! Would you mind if I re-blog it? Come follow my journey too …..I am after all VERY nice to clocks đ
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September 14, 2016 at 1:42 pm
Hello! Heck no I would not mind the re-blogging đ That would be cool, thanks! I’ve just run around your site and I’m looking forward to reading more after work!
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September 14, 2016 at 7:14 pm
Awesome!! I will re-blog yours tomorrow then đ
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September 15, 2016 at 1:59 pm
I really enjoyed this bit of creativity and cleverness! Truly well done!
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September 15, 2016 at 3:22 pm
Thanks! I don’t know why I enjoy bringing inanimate objects to life so much. Maybe because of all the stories they could tell!
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September 15, 2016 at 4:46 pm
I think those are the best stories! Keep telling them!
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September 16, 2016 at 12:56 am
Well!đ glad I don’t abuse my alarm clock, which happens to be my phone. The way my iPhone has been behaving lately, the thing would most definitely quit on me. Great piece. đ
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September 16, 2016 at 12:16 pm
Thanks very much! Yeah I might be one of the few who still uses a regular clock lol. I don’t trust my phone and all the other notifications messing around in there.
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September 16, 2016 at 11:42 am
I absolutely LOVE this! Wonderfully written!! I’m so glad I don’t believe in the snooze button.
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September 16, 2016 at 12:12 pm
Haha! I snooze but *try* not to slap itđ
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