Beautiful banana palms…
Shirley Belk’s, “I Bet You Were Cute as a Child!” unofficial DRABBLE challenge
Please may I leave the table?
I ask, baby blue eyes wide, guileless.
Yes, when you’ve eaten all your food!
I grumpily toss my golden curls, glaring at my plate. No way will I eat this for breakfast! Not rubbery tripe swimming in a pool of crunchy onion, white sauce! Sneakily, fork piled high with yummy potato, remaining mess thinly spread across the plate and hidden under my cutlery, I repeat my request.
After this forkful, can I leave the table?
Yes,
comes the terse permission.
Cheeks bulging, I sprint to the bathroom window and spit into waiting banana trees.
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A/N: Thankfully, we lived in a high block house with benevolent banana palms growing outside the bathroom window! Handy solution for disposing of a detestable dish!
Desperate times, sneaky strategies!
My first ever Drabble, written for the challenge below:
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Comments (12)
part I loved the best: the "waiting" banana trees! Cute girl?...most definitely! Guileless?...well, the jury is still out on that one...lol But still, very, very polite and obedient...make that clever :) So love our Angie! Now I can't help but to think of you when I see a banana...
Super relatable to anyone who remembers being forced to eat food that they didn't like haha. "Not rubbery tripe swimming in a pool of crunchy onion"- love the description in this one Angie! Drabbles are tricky things, but you've done well here:)
Too funny. We’ve all been there especially my eight year old she’d love some banana trees
Haha! How charming and clever, Angie! And I'm not surprised at all!
That was very sneaky and funny, indeed! :D
Relatable, funny and well written!! Nicely done Angie!!
Sneaky, Angie! Cute Drabble.
Fun!
I can't figure out what food was that from your description 😅😅 But that was so sneaky of you, lol!
Desperate times. Sneaky strategies. Love this!
Cute stuff! Thx 4 sharing!
Hehe, this made me chuckle. I remember doing things like this as a kid. I learnt to spit it in a napkin, feed it to the dog, or sometimes I was really cheeky and I'd put some food on my sister's plate after my parents left the table.