Friday Fictioneers prompt for 26 February 2014.
What is Friday Fictioneers? Rochelle presents a challenge to write a one hundred word story that has a beginning, middle and end, based upon a picture that she provides on her blog.
Here is today’s picture prompt (below).
Three Squares a Day
Word Count: 100
Genre: Fiction Humour
Jacques, now known as Jack back home in Rockland, sat with his cousin Aurèle at a tiny bistro beside Chartres’ main intersection. As the tractor pulling hay bales lumbered by, he thought of how little things had changed in the town of his birth. He couldn’t resist ribbing his cousin just a little, as he thought of his own farm in Ontario. Things would be humming along as usual, under the eye of his oldest daughter. He turned to Aurèle with a sly wink and said, “Good crop but it doesn’t look like the cows are getting a square meal.”
~ kei
26 February 2014
Square bale, round bale
oh Jacques 🙂 loved the story
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I’m so glad you stopped by to read. Thank you 🙂
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No problem 🙂 I enjoyed reading it.
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A joke so terrible it’s actually kind of funny.
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One of my Father-In-Law’s favourites. He was a farmer.
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Grooooan!
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Tres bon. And love the square/round image – especially the really really necessary caption.
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🙂
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Definitely farm humour. Being from Southern Ontario, methinks you’ve met some Dutch farmers — this seems to be their sense of humour. Love the Langston Hughes poem, by the way… it’s been one of my favourites since I was a kid.
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It was one my Father-In-Law said, not long after I first started visiting at the farm and it had that slow delivery and raised eyebrow that made it perfect. I think he was teasing his son’s “city” girlfriend, smiles.
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I find the differences in bales, both shape and size, so interesting as I travel around the country or in different countries. I think much of farm humor is rather slow and understated. Nicely done.
janet
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Thank you so much, I do have to agree with you on that.
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Good story and well written. I wonder what the benefit is of the round bale. I’m thinking there’s a reason for the preference.
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Thank you! There are advantages depending on farmer preference. Square bales are more manageable but will mould if not stored quickly. I’ve also heard that square bales are straw and round bales are hay. Again, that could just be the farmer’s preference or the type of equipment he uses 🙂
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Dear Karin,
Subtle humor. Nicely done.
shalom,
Rochelle
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Thank you so much Rochelle, another great prompt! Have a wonderful weekend, Karin
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This is funny and superbly written. Jacques is so very cheeky 😀
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Thank you so much for reading and the lovely comment. I hoped Jacques dry humour would come through 🙂
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