| General Flash Fiction posted October 18, 2021 |
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The perils of missing the first part of a conversation
Overestimation in a FLASH
by Elizabeth Emerald
This afternoon, Chuck and I took a 40-minute drive to an apple orchard: closed Mondays.
To make the trip retrospectively worthwhile, we drove to a nearby beach, which I strolled for half an hour whilst Chuck waited in the car.
I returned to find Chuck by the beach entrance, conversing with a policeman. They'd chanced to discover they'd attended the same high school.
They were chuckling in remembrance of the infamous Jack Connors, a classmate of Chuck's, whose devilish pranks I'd heard tell of.
The officer looked too young to be a contemporary of Chuck, who is 74.
By way of a compliment, I told him he looked to be barely 70.
He replied: I'm 48; Jack Connors is the father of my friend Paul.
This afternoon, Chuck and I took a 40-minute drive to an apple orchard: closed Mondays.
To make the trip retrospectively worthwhile, we drove to a nearby beach, which I strolled for half an hour whilst Chuck waited in the car.
I returned to find Chuck by the beach entrance, conversing with a policeman. They'd chanced to discover they'd attended the same high school.
They were chuckling in remembrance of the infamous Jack Connors, a classmate of Chuck's, whose devilish pranks I'd heard tell of.
The officer looked too young to be a contemporary of Chuck, who is 74.
By way of a compliment, I told him he looked to be barely 70.
He replied: I'm 48; Jack Connors is the father of my friend Paul.
To make the trip retrospectively worthwhile, we drove to a nearby beach, which I strolled for half an hour whilst Chuck waited in the car.
I returned to find Chuck by the beach entrance, conversing with a policeman. They'd chanced to discover they'd attended the same high school.
They were chuckling in remembrance of the infamous Jack Connors, a classmate of Chuck's, whose devilish pranks I'd heard tell of.
The officer looked too young to be a contemporary of Chuck, who is 74.
By way of a compliment, I told him he looked to be barely 70.
He replied: I'm 48; Jack Connors is the father of my friend Paul.
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