Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to Denise’s Six Sentence Story bloghop.
Prompt Word:
BRAND
“Look, Lorraine told this girl at work about you and she seemed open to a causal, really quite harmless, double…”
“Date?”
“Well, if you want to call it that, yeah, a date. The fact is we’re worried about you since… you know, ever since the breakup all you do is work and come back to this apartment, that’s no kind of life.”
The two young men had been friends for… well, throughout college, which anyone who has a dog can tell you, time is not required to pass at a rate of 12 months to a year; in fact, both of them, living on campus when they met, knew time was totally a quantum affair: one semester as quick as a Summer Vacation Week, the next, how long it feels going from being a young adult to crippled senior.
“I guarantee you, she’s a nice normal girl; if blind dates were consumer brands, she’d be approved for a commercial during “Threes Company” and, maybe even “Little House on the… nah, lets stay with the after 9:00 pm demographic, so whaddaya say?”
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About clarkscottroger
I like your description of the passage of time as a “totally a quantum affair”.
thanks, Frank
As long as you don’t expect the world, right? Who knows, you might make a new friend if nothing else.
this is true
Will it be fun? Hope so!
another great scene. and I agree with Frank – ‘time being a totally quantum affair’ seems to be a relatively collective human experience.
thanks M
On the prowl for a younger woman? Better eat your Wheaties! 🤣 Fun Six, yo!
I remember them! (god! when was it I stopped enjoying breakfast cereals?!)