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‘Are you getting one of those mobile telephone things Nora?’ asked Dora, pointing to a teenager.
‘No I’m not Dora’ shouted Nora.
‘Nor me Nora’ huffed Dora. ‘Youngsters today are attached to them, they never look where they’re walking’.
‘I almost got run down by a young mum with a pushchair yesterday Dora’ said Nora. ‘More interested in her phone than her baby’.
‘Babies will be born with them in their hands soon Nora!’ chuckled Dora.
‘What’s that bloke doing Dora?’ asked Nora.
‘Carving a tree Nora’ said Dora. ‘It’s supposed to look like a person’.
‘It’s holding a bloody mobile phone Dora’ yelled Nora…
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Friday Fictioneers is hosted by Rochelle. J. S. Brand provided this week’s photo.
I have a picture that I took in 1999 in Paris. We are at the top of the Eiffel tower and folks are talking on their phones. Well, maybe the reception was better up there.
No escape! Cheers Denise
Dear Keith,
A typical case of art mirrors life. Good one, Keith.
Shalom,
Rochelle
The best art does! Thanks Rochelle
I loved your highlighting of that detail
It was the first thing I noticed – not sure what that says about me!
Well
It could be a mobile phone or an axe – hah
I’ll point that out to the ladies!
Hahhahhs
Sorry I can’t comment, Keith, I’m on a call!
I’ll try again later – need to talk about PPI!
Oops me too. Got a call. Catch you later, Keith.
Careful the ladies don’t spot you!
Well spotted! Well written! Well done!
Well thank you Edith!
Ha ha ha! I could see them! Brilliantly done, Keith.
Susan A Eames at
Travel, Fiction and Photos
Not sure I’d want to! Thanks Susan.
That is a good observation!
It kind of jumped out at me! Cheers Reena
Haha, nice spot. The portraits of the rich and wealthy will soon include them holding their smartphones too. 🙂
No doubt about that Iain!
Wow, Keith, I thought that was a bacon bap! You must have gone to Specsavers.
Great take and well-written – I could see the patterns on the ladies’ headscarves.
I wish you hadn’t mentioned bacon baps – I’ve got to have one now! Thanks JSB
Go on, spoil yourself.
Brilliant Keith. I never spotted that!
I honestly thought everyone would, so I got in early to be ahead of the game!
It was a good angle!
Very clever, I do like Dora and Nora, and congratulations on being so observant.
‘Jilly likes you Dora’ said Nora. ‘I like Jilly too Nora’ said Dora!
Actually I don’t have a mobile phone… the new things are implants, always connected and the SIM card is my DNA. Right now I’m thinking of typing a comment …. see it works.
It worked! Is yours implanted in a tooth?
Heeheehee! We all love to keep in touch, don’t we?
…even carvings do! Cheers Mimi
What a walk, I bet they keep talking even on a bus.
No doubt about that! Thanks Michael
This was really fun…
And so true to life
And I also
Like the way you highlighted the detail that inspired you – and added hello – very fun
Hello to you too Prior!
Move with the times, ladies 🙂
I like your little photo cut-out!
No chance of that I fear!
Hilarious! And well spotted too. 🙂
Thanks so much Sandra
Cute! Future archeologists will discover petroglyphs of smartphones , no doubt
One suggestion: in the first few lines of dialog, add commas. When I first read it, i understood Dora and Nora to be protesting that they were not each other. 😊
…and they’ll probably laugh! Thanks for your suggestion. I originally put them in, but my Grammarly app made me take them out!
Mobile phone has entered into every persons being. It is not possible to get rid of them.
Literally soon – they are already experimenting with implanted ones!
Trust you to find that in a lovely carving!
I seriously thought everyone would home in on it! Not sure what that says about me!
Thats funny, made me laugh out loud
Just as I hoped! Cheers
I enjoyed the rythm of your story with Nora and Dora, great fun. The mobile phone “zombies” as my husband calls them, the ones who get to the top of the escalators and can’t be bothered to move out of the way because they are looking at their screens, drive me insane. Especially here in Hong Kong with masses of people moving from point A to B. Okay, rant over … lovely story, made me laugh. =)
It’s annoying enough in my little seaside town, I can only imagine how irritating it is for you! Thanks Brenda
It never occurred to me to find a phone in the tree. You’re story’s such an amusing approach to a major complaint. I’ve never been able to stand phones, and now it’s even worse since there’s no escape from them.
I do believe we are in total agreement, Larry!
Hilarious 🙂 I had two different young( 21 or younger) in my office yesterday. Both of them tucked their phones under a leg, imagining that I wouldn’t see them checking it every few seconds. Good grief. I finally objected, kindly and courteously, and they both blushed and apologized—but had to be asked quite pointedly to put the phones away.
*Young women
I can fully imagine that happening! How did we manage without them when we were 21?!!
We got along without a lot of things then that we consider necessities now. Computers and electronics have certainly created a market that never existed before.
Excellent take, Keith! We do see different things, don’t we? And yes, bloody hell… I just spent 3 days in New York and was amazed how EVERYONE is connected to their cell…
My Friend Rosey is starting a campaign to have street lights and sign posts wrapped in foam because she keeps walking into them!
Ha ha!
nor sure has an eye for details. 🙂
Indeed! Cheers Plaidel
Delightful! It’s super fun that you saw that cellphone in the carving. Very much “it’s what you see.”
Reading everyone else’s stories shows that different people see different things! Thanks so much Alicia
indeed!
welcome to the new age.
Where will it take us next?
Omg haha love the phone.
A very modern sculpture! Cheers Laurie
Well-spotted! Great read.
Thanks Lisa
Haha, good one, Keith. You’re right or should I say that Nora and Dora are right about everybody having mobile phones nowadays. I remember back in the day when people had to use public phones and there were less distracted drivers and pedestrians.
Me too! Ah well,…
Nora and Dora sound like a right indignant pair but they make a good point
Spot on! Cheers Michael