Friday Fictioneers – It’s all going to be electric

~ Neil MacDonald
PHOTO PROMPT © Kent Bonham

Don’t bother yourself with all that book-learning nonsense, lad. I left school at fifteen and never done me any harm. Straight into the Works and learned a proper trade.

I mean, what’s this supposed to be? Makes no sense. Oh, Greek, is it? I’ll give you Greek, filthy foreign tongue rasping under your dentures like a raspberry pip.

Get a trade, that’s the thing. Electrician maybe—you’re clever,. Not that I hold with it. Mum always said when she changed the gas stove for electric, you could taste the electric. But it’s all going to be electric now, they say.

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Friday fictioneers is a weekly challenge set by Rochelle Wisoff Fields to write a 100-word story in response to a photo prompt. You can find other stories here. If you want to read my original April 2016 story for this prompt, it’s here

43 thoughts on “Friday Fictioneers – It’s all going to be electric”

  7. I tried leaving a comment yesterday, but WordPress was hit and miss. On some sites I could others, not. Hopefully this one will stick.

    I’m a big proponent of trade schools. Electricians and Plumbers often make more here than college grads and aren’t saddled with debt.

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  15. He’s not wrong. There will always be a need for the trades and not everyone is meant to be book-learnin’ anyhow. ‘Course, doesn’t mean he needs to discount those, either 😉 Nicely done, Neil!

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