“CHERYL!!”
She looked at the clock – he’s right on time.
He was standing beside the car, hands on hips, a fleck of foam at the corner of his mouth. “What the hell happened?!”
“Happened?”
“THE CAR! THE MIRROR!!” Steve jabbed violently toward the side mirror.
She had considered pleading ignorance but the broken, dangling mirror was hard to miss, or going on the offensive, blaming him, but for that to work she should be the one hollering and pointing.
She settled for, “Oh, that? Well, it all started when I went for groceries and an alien spacecraft landed in the……”
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Why do guys have to put up such a fuss when it comes to little itty-bitty accidents?
I like to think of “Fried Green Tomatoes” when after Evelyn rams the red volkswagon about 6 times “Towanda”… and later just looks at Ed after he rambles on about it “Oh Ed….”
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TOWANDA!! I LOVE Towanda!! She’s my hero. Why am I not surprised that you are an admirer..er…er too? :o)
We should start a Towanda fan club!!!
I’m in! Everyone should have an inner Towanda. :o)
Count me in, too! TOWANDA!!!
Aliens could be a good excuse for almost any accident you want to deny! Fun story.
Steve should know to just give up. She isn’t going to discuss this until he’s reasonable. And by ‘reasonable’ I mean ‘forgiving’. :o)
I find her explanation totally plausible. It was either aliens or bigfoot.
Steve needs to take a chill pill.
Haha! I can almost guarantee that she’ll keep rambling on about aliens until he just gives up and fixes the car. :o)
She’s a worse liar than the son in my story 🙂
LOL! Yes she is, but that’s just part of her charm. It’s such a blatant falsehood you can’t even consider her a liar. :o)
Ha! I was going to do aliens, too. I ended up with something slightly more sinister. ^_^ Nice job!
Thanks Candace. I don’t think Steve bought the whole ‘Alien’ thing but by the time she quit talking he was just too exhausted to fight about it. It’s a strategy. :o)
Those darn alien spacecraft. If they insist on coming here the least they could do is learn how to park! The best part of this story for me was the first two words in Cheryl’s last reply and the italicized “that”.
As bullshit explanations go, Cheryl’s might not be the most inventive but she’s committed. :o)
Oh! I certainly like her style. I might borrow her excuse.
The best thing about Cheryl is that she can do things that I could never get away with. :o) I’m fairly certain that The Viking would have stopped me short after the word ‘alien’.
I am sure it was an alien – the same one that switched on the headlights of my car and made the batteries die out 😉
Yes. That was a very busy alien! :o)
So, is this Calvin’s mom and dad? They never had names, and that sounds exactly like a Calvin excuse…
Ah.. I think the alien card might just work, but maybe it’s better to save that for when the car is really crashed.
I have a sneaking suspicion that Cheryl is a champion excuse maker. :o) It’s just a suspicion though.
Dear Mrs. C,
If nothing else, Cheryl has a wild imagination. I hope he has a sense of humor. 😀
Shalom,
Rochelle
I wonder how far she gets into that sentence before he becomes apoplectic with rage? Worth a try, though 🙂 Love Fried Green Tomatoes! Great film
I’m fairly sure that Steve is accustomed to these explanations. Or, at least, he should be. :o) Thanks for dropping by.
Why not aliens. The little trouble makers. We all knew it would happen someday. Hilarious, Lori. 😀 — Suzanne
Thanks Patricia. I don’t think she can use aliens as an excuse anymore though. She might need to get a little more creative. :o)