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Let me read it to you!
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I ring his doorbell. Mine goes ping, his boings like Big Ben!
“Welcome to my humble abode”, he says. He always does. If this is humble, I don’t know what mine is!
“Tea on the terrace”, he says. His wife pours earls-grey from a fancy tea pot into delicate porcelain cups perched on pretty little saucers.
I have trouble holding those silly things. I’m used to chunky mugs of builder’s brew.
“Finger sandwiches, scones with strawberry preserve and cream”, he says.
What’s wrong with crusty rolls and lumps of cake for goodness sake?
How we two are twin brothers I’ll never know!
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Thanks to Rochelle for hosting Friday Fictioneers each Wednesday! Here is today’s photo prompt
PHOTO © David Stewart
Funny how that often happens. Could be the wife’s influence, though… 😉
That wouldn’t surprise me at all!
😊
My sons are twins but not identical in either appearance or attitudes.
Really! I guess that’s quite unusual.
Nicely done, Keith
Thanks so much, Neil.
Great take on the prompt!
Thank you, Christine!
Keith, I love your surprise ending. I was wondering how these two would be connected. I have a brother like that but we are not twins.
Me too, Lisa, chalk and cheese!
Leave the porcelain for the ‘poshers’. I’ll take mine in a mug with you!
Yeah! Join the club!
You are right, Keith, those dainty tea cups I seein store windows hardly measure up to a comfortable mug of earl grey. Nicely done story. Love the graphic with the frogs and the cups.
You’re even supposed to stick out your little finger when holding a cup! No, mugs for me !
I totally can relate to Keith. Yes, mugs for too, please. Cheers.
you balance each other out!
That’s true, Beth!
Some twins are alike enough to be scary, some you wouldn’t even know were in the same family. Fun story!
Absolutely! Thanks, Mimi.
I’ll have my tea black and save me a scone. Tracey
Your wish is my command!
This was well done and I think I liked the humble brother with the ping for a doorbell
The ping brother does seen to be proving the more popular!
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Sitting at the kitchen table where the mugs don’t match; that my style!
Fun story and an unexpected funny ending.
There’s nothing wrong with mis-matching, I do it all the time!
So pleased you liked it, Nancy, thank you.
Twins but polar opposite!
They say opposites attract, so I’m sure they love each other really!
Yes, probably
Twins needn’t be indentical, is it not?
— Pradeep / Time and Tide
I totally agree. Each to their own I say!
I know of twins who do things to intentionally be different, probably since they have been lumped in together their whole lives. Great ending to the story. A very satisfying place to end it.
-David
Thanks David. I’m sure I’d want to break free.
Dear Keith,
How different we all are, even the closest of womb mates. Loved this one.
Shalom,
Rochelle
I’m pleased you enjoyed it, Rochelle, thank you.
of course, the wife has something to do with it. 🙂
I used to blame things on my wife – which is one of the reasons I’m single now!
A slice of life! My brothers are like this. Day and night. Good one, Keith!
Ha, ha Keith two sides of the same coin 🙌
This one made me smile. And i am the twin has been brainwashed by his wife. And we all know, it’s always her fault.