Joanna sent her bookish husband Randy to the market, to buy mustard.
‘Be back in 15 minutes,’ she said.
Randy returned two hours later, with a book on methods of execution used in the Middle Ages.
‘Where’s the mustard?’
‘Oh!’ he said, scratching his head. ‘I knew I forgot something.’
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I write as a way of life: stories, blogs, articles, almost-poems. I'm a freelancer, a vegetarian, and I listen to Leonard Cohen and enjoy French films. We are dying a little more with each new day we live, so shouldn't we make the most of our time?
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I feel for him — I’m always forgetting something.
Poor fellow indeed!
Yay. I’m famous. A dedication and now a story.
And my wife said that I couldn’t “cut the mustard”…. and here I am now buying some. Well, I’m going back to reading my book on “elocution in the middle ages”…oh darn, the title is “execution in the middle ages.”
“At my age I’d rather speak my rage than spear my page.” Ha – and you may quote me.
Thanks BWaH,
Randy
Poor fellow Randy! Poor, poor, poor fellow!
very punny. very very punny.
Pass the ketchup and the book “electrocution at a young age.”
🙂
Cheers to Randy! His comments are always fun to read.
Love this little story, almost a long “joke”, in truth, but long enough to be prose. I like that! Sweet and funny all at the same time.
Yay! I’m not sure I intended it to be a joke, but if it turned out that it all is well.
i’ve seen this happen a million one times-the initial grocery item is FOREVER forgotten.
‘Tis true!
HAH! This made me laugh out loud, good one! 🙂
Ha! Reminds me of a children’s story in which a father and daughter, sent on a grocery shopping trip by the mother, forget to buy everything on the mother’s grocery list, and buy all their favorite treats instead! Cracks my son up all the time!
Who runs out of Mustard? Don’t they keep an emergency reserve jar?
Love this one!
Now I would be the female version of Joanna’s husband! I always end up forgetting essentials and buying books instead!! 🙂