Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.
Hosted by Denise defined by it’s numerically eponymous title.
Prompt word:
AGENCY
” …left no good deed unpunished, no bad one unrewarded.”
Diane Tierney demonstrated a gift possessed by few women: she smiled seriously as I approached her hostess station.
“I once had a friend, we were waitressing at a supper club when I was still in school, who got it into her head to start a real estate agency just so she could name it ‘Really Realty’,” as she glanced to her upper left, recovering the memory, I found myself captivated by her necklace; a small ruby on a gold chain, ever-so-slightly cantilevered by her collar bones, my fear of looking up grew even as I continued in the opposite direction.
I felt her silence, transmuting into affectionate amusement, as my autonomic nervous system went all civil war on where to send the excess blood supply; gathering the tatters of my confidence, I looked up into her laughing eyes.
To illustrate her interpretation of Walter Maps’ oft-misconstrued aphorism, Diane handed me the brown-paper takeout bag.
“Be careful, Ian, our Ms. Storme is the soul of discord; you might do well to consider changing careers, selling houses has less potential for permanent physical and/or psychological disability.”
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What a delightful, “sensitive” story. That of Ian and Diane.
“I felt her silence…” sentence sent me chuckling.
Mr. Devereaux has been warned once more of the problem child.
Entertaining! 🌷😃
thank you, Reena
Ms. Tierney should re-read ‘De Nugis Curialium” – that good deeds are not rewarded as expected, and bad deeds may go unpunished. (Ian, is it?) might wish to practise breathing into the paper bag. (ps: goodness me, I’ve not heard that song for ages – why not – it’s a great song.)
great imagery – thank you
It’s amazing how tattered confidence can become in such a situation.
really and the worst thing is that we all know better, at least when we see it in others rather than outselfs
Nice name for a real estate agency: “Really Realty”
Ian could have avoided the laughing eyes by not aiming his gaze in the opposite direction, but the ruby was positioned to tempt him to go there. It sounds like Rosetta has a reputation she will want to live up to if she is given her way.
I actually had someone make that ‘joke’ (about real estate)… a thousand years ago. man! little did I know then (it was, don’t tell anyone, in the ’70s)
Gosh, that’s a bit worrying… maybe?
maybe