When the door in the sky opened, I wasn’t scared. Awestruck, yes, wondering if hosts of angels prepared to descend. Perhaps there were even trumpets; or that may have been the sound of engines of uncanny power reversing as beguiling visitors arrived.
“Why are you pulling over?” Mabel asked.
“Don’t you see it? Can’t you feel the rapture?”
“Shall I take over the driving?”
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Haha! Mabel better take over. Cosmic interference with an earthly twist. 🙂
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Thanks so much, Terveen
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Dear Neil,
In the event of the rapture I’m not sure there will be that much time for discussion. Zoom!
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Time expands at that point
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Time for Mabel to drive… towards? or away? hmm.
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Mabel doesn’t believe it’s there at all
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As you just said, we had similar ideas. That poor, over tired driver… lol
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Thanks so much, Trent
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Sounds like someone expects to be “left behind” very much un-raptured!
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She’s innured to being left behind
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Well, if I’m raptured and you’re not, then yes, you’d better drive. 😉
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Exactly
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He saw what she didn’t.
Or maybe she saw what he didn’t- glad she took over the wheels!
Safe driving!
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The safety may be the arbiter of who’s view is best
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Feels like the rapture when staring into a million candle watts of light baring down on you! Nice one, Neil.
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Thanks so much, Mason
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Probably best if he takes a rest. Having said that, the A9 is a notoriously dangerous road, anything could happen.
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Nice that someone here knows the A9
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Mabel is a very practical thinker!
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Some say she lacks imagination
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Perhaps the driver is going without Mabel.
Sure Mabel, you drive, you are going a different route anyway.
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He may have been going a different route for some time
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This made me smile – I’d probably react the same way as Mabel!
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Hopefully, we all would
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An imaginative story, with a good twist. You play nicely on the distinction between rapture and the rapture described by Christian eschatology
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Thanks so much, Penny. I’m pleased you noticed the play with rapture
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Rapture may indeed sadly not be for Mabel. Not just yet maybe
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Mabel is not a believer
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Practical, that Mabel 🙂
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Intensely. A no-nonsense woman
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I think she should!
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Thanks, Danny
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I like the ambiguity here. Looks like they will be parting ways one way or another. A description of something I hope never to experience whatever the reality of it is.
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Or perhaps they work well as a team
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Perfectly practical Mabel. I’d pull over too, time for a snooze when the rapture rocks up, eh. Great story!
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Thanks so much, Fleur
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For the sake of everyone, Mabel must drive.
As far as “feeling” rapture, my definition has little to do with the sky opening up. 🙂
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Thanks, Bill
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🙂
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i want what he has he been smoking. 🙂
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Don’t we all
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Without seeing what he sees, she knows enough to take the wheel. Wise woman.
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I think she’s been here before
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Mable seems very much the practical type. Well done.
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Thanks so much.
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Good one! Yeah, best take over the driving … An enraptured driver is a distracted driver … 😉
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Thanks so much
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🙂
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I have had this ethereal experience, an hypnotic trance of following red lights at night. I couldn’t take it no more. Woke up in a lay-by with my head on the steering wheel. How did I get there? Angels?
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Definitely angels. Or maybe demons
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Poetical Neil. Lunar inspired ? Thank you for this vision. Wishing you a pleasant weekend.
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Thanks so much, Susan
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I think she should.
Before they end up on the other side.
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Good advice
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Regardless of what’s going on in the sky, if he’s not watching the road, he shouldn’t be driving.
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He definiteky shouldn’t be, you’re right
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Perhaps too much to drink? I like that Mabel is like… I should drive…
Mind you, if he suddenly disappears I’m not sure what she’ll think!
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Oddly, though he infuriates her, she’d be bereft if he suddenly disappeared
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Time for a nap, methinks!
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You could be right
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Haha … I see he’s been waiting for the rapture, but Mabel not so much. Nice one!
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Thanks so much
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Perhaps, Mabel was right. Safety first 🙂
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Oh Mabel was definitely right. But being right may not be everything
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I have been on a drive like that…the rapture came upon arrival. 😀 Good story, Neil!
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Thanks so much, Sascha
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