When my friend Rosey downsized to a smaller apartment, her vast collection of bits and pieces didn’t fit, so many of them ended up storage, or prison as she calls it! She visits them now and again so they don’t feel unloved.
When she went the other day, most of the lights weren’t working. As she felt her way past Cell 16 she had the fright of her life. Through the gloom, she thought she saw a huge gaping mouthful of ugly gappy teeth!
She screamed, and the lights flickered into life. Then she giggled. It was a piano!
Oh, Rosey!
Thanks to Rochelle for hosting and to J Hardy Carroll for the picture.
Prod the frog (if you dare) to see other’s stories!
A prison so that they don’t get away.
There’s no chance of that! Thanks Sadje
Yup! You’re welcome Keith.
Dear Keith,
Rosey’s a corker, isn’t she? Cute story and a very different frog this week.
Shalom,
Rochelle
She comes in very handy! If I’m stuck for a story I just think ‘Rosey’! Thanks Rochelle.
My nephew fed my Mum’s piano keyboard cake as he thought it was a huge mouth. Good fun tale Keith
Good for him! Cheers Di.
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As you say: Oh Rosey!
I say it regularly!
Good thing Rosey can laugh at herself 🙂
She the queen of self-deprecation Thanks Linda!
We’ve been having a loft clearout this week, so I can relate to Rosey – so much good stuff boxed up and unloved, just don’t have the space for it all!
Done that and taken it all to a boot sale! Cheers Iain
Silly Rosey! 🙂
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That she is! Fun though.
Good piece, the piano is one of the fiercest of the instruments, second only to the zither
Zither strings are very sharp!
I loved this,
That’s kind of you, thanks Mike
Darkness is a powerful ingredient for the imagination isn’t it. Good story, Keith.
It comes in very handy! Thanks so much.
You’re very welcome.
Some things do look scary in the dark that are fine when it’s light. Tell Rosey it’s okay to bring a flashlight or torch!
She’s got one on her phone but she doesn’t know how to switch it on!
Like I tell all my stuff: “Behave, or risk eviction or … worse yet … storage prison!” 😉
To be fair, I don’t personally have a storage unit, but I know many who do, and for many of them it is indeed like condemning their possessions to a ‘prison sentence’ of usually predetermined (and often much extended later on) ‘stay’…
I had one for quite a while until I realised I was wasting money paying for a unit to store things I’d never have a use for again – so I gave them a pardon and an early release!
Yay! Pardoned unused items so that others may give them new life! 🙂
I love Rosey, smiled when I clicked and it was another of her stories.
Oh, thanks so much! Made my day!
Bless that Rosie!
Funny and playful take, Keith.
What would I do without her? Cheers Varad
Haha! Your eyesight is better than mine to have picked out that detail!
I wouldn’t have seen it had I not enlarged it!
Thank goodness for Rosey!
She comes in very handy when I’m stuck for a story! Cheers Dale.
I hear ya! I need my own Rosey!
Funny girl, that Rosey. There’s something seriously spooky about storage spaces!! =)
I find them really eerie! Thanks Brenda
like they say, oh, what a relief it is. 🙂
Indeed it is!
I think I know Rosey or at least a few people like her. Comical and entertaining. Loved the story.
They are great – in small doses! Thanks James.
Better that than sitting down to the “piano” and getting eaten by a huge gaping mouthful of ugly gappy teeth 🙂
Absolutely! Cheers draliman
O Rosey, I can imagine how scarey looming shapes in the gloom can be. Glad the lights came on quickly.
Hoorah, I found your lovely comment! Somehow it ended up in the spam bucket. Thanks so much for your email which led me to seek you out!
Definitely an entertaining take on the photo prompt Keith. I like it!
That’s so kind of you, thanks so much.
It’s so nice that she personifies her stuff
Cheers Larry.
I’m glad it was piano keys and not something a bit more scary.
I enjoyed your take on the prompt, Keith. Have a great weekend.
Isadora😎
So was Rosey! Thanks, Isadora.
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These sudden shocks that come out of the blue can be nerve wracking! Ha! Ha!
They certainly can – boo!
Lovely! I’m amazed how you spotted that detail in the photo!
There’s often something hidden in prompt pictures!
How our minds love to play tricks on us. I think we’ve all been there.
I know mine does!
But now instead of the fear i would be left with a sorrow of all the music left imprisoned.
Very true. Cheers Björn
That Rosey…I can really relate to her! 🙂
Oh dear, you too! Cheers Dawn.
I’m surprised she had athe nerve to switch on the light, with the fright that she got. I love what you did with the frog image!
Oh, she’s daring! The frog looks better with the lights on too! Thanks Fatima.