Welcome Dear Readers!  Great News! If I was abducted by aliens last night, they returned me!  Proving once again it’s the little things that make life worth living.  

Speaking of making life worth living, it’s Friday Fictioneers Picture Prompt Challenge Day brought to us by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields over at her blog, Addicted to Purple.  Today’s 100-word story challenge is inspired by this picture:

The Old Man and The See

Hello little lady, I see you got dishes.

Yeah.

You got anything for gout?

Sorry no.

I see you got lots of sweaters.

Uh-huh.

I was on a battleship in the Pacific in WWII. Four years.

Really.

I see you got washboards.

Uh-huh.

I was a marksman so they put me as a gunner.  I killed a lot of people.

Wow.

You got anything for gout?

Sorry no.

I see you got wedding dresses.

Yeah.

My wife’s been dead 14 years now come September.

Sorry.

I see you got clocks.

Yeah.

You got anything for gout?

Sorry no.

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Until next time . . . I love you