Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
I will avoid the obvious, (and oh-so-tempting), joke about the command of our bloghop host, zoe, being to write a story, using six and only six sentences and instead say, “Moses ain’t got nothin on zoe!!!”* and her instructions for this here bloghop here. While most, if not many, of the stories here are fiction, on occasion we will see Six Sentence Stories that are accurate accounts of real events and/or experiences. Last week’s narrator notwithstanding, this today, (the photo) depicts what I’m begin told in my online seminar on writing synopsiseses** is the ‘inciting incident’ of this week’s Six Sentence Story.
“No, screw you!”
“…and, besides that’s not a car, it’s a fricken truck!”
” And, seeing how we’re looking for an accurate understanding of the message on your sign, is one a statement of qualifying authority and the other a command?”
“If I’m at the head of the line, what makes you think the people behind me know that I’m only following instructions and not driving way, way too slow, just to, like, be a jerk?!”
“Yes, I know you’re only doing your job, that doesn’t mean we have to enjoy the regimentation conditioning that’s in full expansion mode, choking the celebration of the individual, like an algae bloom in a small lake.”
“Thanks, and no, while you did nothing to protect me and/or my car, you have, in fact, saved me from yet another Six Sentence Sword hanging over my head!”
* to para-mangle a famous line from the movie, ‘Training Day’ with Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke
** not a ‘real’ plural form of synopsis, but a preferred form, at least around here
About clarkscottroger
There’s an expression on my face. Is it a smile, is it a moue, is it a snarky snarl? All of the above. Way to be creative Clark. It’s like driving around in an Audi that says “Writer Inside, – Follow Me.”
yeah…nothing like, “Hey! I’m telling you what to do, no questions!”
lol
I have to say, I’ve never quite thought about those “follow me ‘cars'” in quite the way you’ve related it here. But now that I have, I have to wonder what the hell is really going through their minds! Haha.
Happy Thursday!
sounds like this form of traffic control is prevalent in other parts of the country, this is, literally, the first time I’ve encountered it… guess I kinda reacted characteristically?
I wonder where one could obtain a sign like that? (Just kidding, of course!)
I once thought of a product to sell to drivers, one of those LED message boards (3 by 18 inches…. lights form letters, letters scroll right to left) with a key pad so I could put the thing in my read window and, while driving I could type messages to display to the car behind me… ‘hey! you’re too close’ or ‘what are you an….’
never got around to actually trying to do it… given the world today, probably for the best
lol
Like it!
lol yeah, huh
My favorite is “Follow me to Waffle House”
lol
I was on the cape one year and a funeral procession was going by. Kid you not on the back of the hearse was printed ” we’re dying to do business with you”
lol