This week’s Friday Fictioneers 100 word photo prompt is:
“This picture of somebody else’s garage. Not mine! Because I don’t have a lot of crap just sitting around. No. My garage is neat. It’s orderly. My garage is a neat, safe workplace…. Well, OK. I’ll be honest with you. My garage could use some cleaning up. Just a bit. Matter of fact, I’m going to clean it up tomorrow. Well, maybe over the weekend. Depends. Actually, this weekend I have some other things I have to do. I mean, the ol’ garage just needs a bit of tidying up. Shouldn’t take me very long. The garage is actually fairly neat…”
A nice example of coming full circle. I feel the same way about the spare room at our place. Great take on this week’s prompt.
Nice self talk!
He/She needs to clear his head first… the garage can wait… no actually maybe if the garage is cleaned, mind will follow. Or maybe it depends on how neat rest of the house is. Perhaps it’s also a function of what is the reference of cleanliness of your MC, though that should be pretty standard, but what’s the standard way of deciding the standard of cleanliness? Is fairly neat neat enough? Maybe… maybe not.. That’s the thing about cleanliness… it’s subjective.
Ok, I need to shut up!
These are my 100 words for your 100 words. LOL
Thanks for your words. All of them. When you start talking to yourself……
looks neat enough to me to go out and hoist a few…
and mess it up some more when I get back.
Randy
That’s the attitude we like to see!
very nicely written and fun
Thank you!
I enjoyed the machinations of your narrator’s mind and how s/he ended up with the desired answer. Never done that myself, of course.
But my garage is actually very neat and clean right now as I’ve cleared it all out as part of the ongoing effort to get the house ready to put on the market.
As always, my hat’s off to you.
Very clever… My garage needs major help lol
A co-worker of mine had a sign on her desk: “A clean desk is the sign of a disturbed mind.”
I don’t have a garage anymore so I’d have to say mine is neat..
great write for 100 words prompt!
Thanks, Freepenny.
Ha ha…that’s what I say about cleaning my bathrooms! Good one, Bumba!
Dear Stephen,
This sounds like the mental gymnastics I go through when I consider cleaning my desk.
Another favorite sign I used to have…”Those proud of keeping an immaculate desk will never know the thrill of finding something they thought was irretrievably lost.”
Shalom,
Rochelle
Ha. So you finally found that saying.
That must have been a thrill
If a messy garage is a sign of a messy mind, it’s a lot better than an empty garage. Great inner monologue.
Oh, so you have a messy garage too?
I lost my garage a long time ago…
The true sign of a procrastinator. Well done.
Thanks for the comment. I’d like to answer but not right now.
been there, had that same mental-internal battle many times. well done!
I’d love to stop procrastinating but I keep putting it off. Well done cleaning your garage.
Aloha,
Doug
Aloha. Good things come to those what wait?