Writing Resources from Fifteen Minutes of Fiction
Humour / humor
by ScribblerIMPORTANT NOTE: This is a piece of a longer writing project. You can view the entire project here: Humour / humor
The following is a piece of writing submitted by Scribbler on January 2, 2009
"This was written after seeing long queues of people lined up at a department store service desk after Christmas."
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I’m standing at the service desk in a great big queue.There’s lots of them before me - I’m number 92.
We’re all returning goodies that were bought for Christmas Day.
We’re not completely satisfied. They’re all faulty in some way.
‘It’s little Johnny’s railway train, it won’t stay on the track.’
‘Would you like an exchange then, or d'you want your money back?’
She says she’ll take the money. The form she signs and dates.
Besides he didn’t like the train - he’d rather have some skates.
‘This shirt’s too small for Damien, he’s grown since last December.
I thought it would be big enough but I couldn’t quite remember.’
‘These nuts we bought for Uncle Fred came back.’ The note was brief –
It seems that since last Christmas they’d taken out his teeth.
Patience is a virtue - that’s what they always say
But I can think of lots of things I’d rather do today.
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