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I published two FOWC With Fandango prompts last night. One for the word “shaft” and one for the word “misconstrue.”

Here are my proposed remedial options for you:

1. You can respond in a single post using both prompt words.

2. You can respond with two posts, one for each of the two prompt words.

3. You can respond by choosing one of the two prompt words and ignoring the other.

4. You can choose to not respond to either of the prompts.

But be warned that if you do option 4, I might misconstrue your lack of engagement and assume you are a Chinese bot. Or maybe that will be your way of giving me the shaft for screwing up so badly.

Anyway, it’s in your hands now.

MLMM — Story Starter — This Option is Off the Table

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She threw back the glass of wine and stormed out of the room.

“Sharon wait!” Nick called out as he ran after her. He finally caught up with her on the street just outside the restaurant and touched her shoulder.

Sharon spun around so she was facing Nick. Looking directly into his eyes, she said, “What? There’s nothing left to say, is there, Nick?” Sharon tried not to cry but her eyes started to well over. “We’ve been together for almost a year and a half and I was expecting an engagement ring. I was not prepared for you to announce that we need to take a break from each other.”

“It’s not that I don’t love you,” Nick said. “I do with all my heart. But I think the prudent thing for us to do as a couple is to take a few months off so we can make sure this is what we both want.”

“The prudent thing to do? Are you serious, Nick?” Sharon said. “Well, if you’re not sure whether or not you want to marry me, then by all means, take as much time as you need to consider your options. But just so you know, this option,” Sharon said, pointing to herself with her thumb, “is off the table.” And for the second time in five minutes, Sharon turned around and stormed away.

Written for Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Story Starter Saturday Mix. Photo credit: inspirationalblog.com

Share Your World — 09/11/2023

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Share Your World

Di, at Pensitivity101, is our host for Share Your World each week. Here are her SYW questions for this week.

1. Do you like change?

I assume this question is not about nickels, dimes, and quarters. As I rarely use cash anymore, I rarely have any change. If I do get any change from a cash financial transaction, I put it in a change jar at home until I’ve accumulated enough to take the change jar to the Coinststar machine at the grocery store and exchange the change for a cash voucher.

As to the other kind of change, I don’t mind it if it is change for the better or has a legitimate purpose. What I don’t like is change for the sake of change. I’d say that most of us who blog on WordPress have experienced what seems to be change for the sake of change regularly.

2. Can you remember the last time you had to use an operator service?

Do you mean a telephone company operator giving assistance to make a call?

No, I can’t remember the last time I did that.

3. What is the best and worst ‘hold’ music you have had to listen to?

There is no best hold music. All hold music is the worst.

4. Do you find numerous ‘options’ annoying when connected to an automated service?

I find all options except “speak with a representative (or agent)” to be annoying. I also hate when they say “Please listen carefully as our options have changed.” But the worst is when I’m told “Your call is important to us, please continue to hold.”

Some automatic voice response systems now offer the option for a callback without losing our place in the queue. if that’s available, I always choose that.

Fandango’s Flashback Friday — June 3rd

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Wouldn’t you like to expose your newer readers to some of your earlier posts that they might never have seen? Or remind your long term followers of posts that they might not remember? Each Friday I will publish a post I wrote on this exact date in a previous year.

How about you? Why don’t you reach back into your own archives and highlight a post that you wrote on this very date in a previous year? You can repost your Friday Flashback post on your blog and pingback to this post. Or you can just write a comment below with a link to the post you selected.

If you’ve been blogging for less than a year, go ahead and choose a post that you previously published on this day (the 3rd) of any month within the past year and link to that post in a comment.

This was originally posted on June 3, 2017.

SoCS — Whether the Weather

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“What’s tomorrow’s weather outlook?” she asked as we were getting ready for bed.

I checked the weather app on my smartphone. “Mostly sunny with a high of 65,” I said. “Why?”

“I’m trying to decide whether we should take a day trip up the coast with the kids or whether we should just stick around the house and have a backyard cookout in the afternoon,” she responded. “What do you think?”

“I think the weather will work either way, whether you want to take that drive or hang out at home.”

“Let’s do the cookout,” she said after tossing the two option around in her head for a few minutes. Then she gave me a rather wry look and said, “Now we need to decide whether or not to invite my parents over.”

“Um, on second thought,” I said, “maybe we should take that ride up the coast with the kids.”

Well, I thought, whether she knows it or not, my wife definitely has got my number!

This post is for today’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt over at Linda G Hill’s blog, where we’re asked to use the words “whether” and “weather.”

Fandango’s Provocative Question #16

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FPQEach week I will pose what I think is a provocative question for your consideration. By provocative, I don’t mean a question that will cause annoyance or anger. Nor do I mean a question intended to arouse sexual desire or interest.

What I do mean is a question that is likely to get you to think, to be creative, and to provoke a response. Hopefully a positive response.

This week’s provocative question came to mind when I started to work on our federal taxes this week. My wife said, “I don’t want any of our tax dollars to go to pay for Trump’s goddam vanity wall.” Unfortunately, we taxpayers don’t have the ability to earmark how our tax dollars are — or are not — spent. And so my wife’s comment gave me fodder for this week’s provocative question:

“Should tax payers have the option to explicitly say what they don’t want their tax dollars spent on?”

What do you think? What areas, if any, would you wish to exclude yout tax dollars from paying for?

If you choose to participate, write a post with your response to the question. Once you are done, tag your post with #FPQ and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Or you can simply include a link to your post in the comments.

And most important, have fun.