Tree’s a crowd

Last week I participated in a microfiction meme over at Grandma’s Goulash. If you don’t remember my entry, it had to do with donkeys at the bottom of a canyon.

Well, it’s another week now and another microfiction meme has reared its ugly head. This could become habit-forming. Here’s this week’s picture, followed by my contribution, which is limited by the rules to 140 characters:



When Nigel turned to Pamela at the dinner party and whispered, “Let’s make like a tree and leave” she hadn’t realized he meant it literally. (140)

Here’s the link to Grandma’s Goulash if you would like to have a try at it yourself.

I blame it on Twitter

...where messages cannot exceed 140 characters.

My friend Jinksy over in England sometimes participates in memes that involve composing captions that don’t exceed 140 characters (including spaces) for photographs provided by someone else. This week it was a site called Grandma’s Goulash.

I have never participated in one of these before, but this week -- call it spring fever -- I threw caution to the winds and decided to give it a try.

Here’s the photograph and my caption:



Really, Maude, you should know the way out of this canyon without needing a map. Just follow Hortense. You’ve done it thousands of times. (138)

I have entitled this combination -- brilliantly, I thought -- "An Asinine Quandary"....

If you think you can do better, or just would like to give it a try yourself, here’s the link to Grandma’s Goulash.