It’s been a few weeks since I’ve participated in Crispina‘s fun challenge. Trying to spend a little less time in front of the computer. Not really succeeding but still trying. Got inspired by this one so just had to go with it!
Outta Here
“I gots dreams, yanno? Just coz my folks chose to move to this god-forsaken cold, rinky-dink, fish-stinkin’ place, doesn’t mean I have to stay here, do it? I’s tired of freezing me arse off from October till May. An’ after that spending all my time haulin’ and guttin’ and freezin’ fish. I’m done. I am outta here.”
“What’re ya at, Billy? Talkin’ to yerself? Why’s this dock such a mess?”
“I’m lookin’ at whats I gots ta get rid of and whats I gots ta keep, Charlie. I’m gettin’ da hell outta here and goin’ somewheres the sun always shines and I’m not cold to me bones!”
“And how ya gonna get there?”
“By boat.”
“That boat?”
“Yeah, why ya ask?”
“Ya gots ta cross da Atlantic, fool. Yer boat’s too small!”
“But my dreams are big!” He showed Charlie a picture. “I wants this!”
‘Ya gots the boat right…”
Yep, your boat beats my boat. Reading your story I kept seeing the Scottish women who followed the herring fleets along the English coast, many ending up in Yarmouth (when we had a fleet). They stood in the freezing cold, on the quay, to gut and pack the fish
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I dunno about beating – unless we are talking geography 😉
I love that this brought you an image!
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I didn’t mean it in a contest-type way, just… well, I’d say yours is more upmarket. More made for pleasure, whereas mine is very definitely a working boat 🙂
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Yes, yes, of course
And we understand Billy’s not in favour of a working boat no more 😉
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I know the feeling…. feel the same about my piled up cardboard boxes…. (apart from that, my life is just fine!)
Great story…. and good luck to the chap! Billy, you gotta think BIG.
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I was wondering who you were! New image for your gravatar threw me off! 😉
The joys of moving. Not (I still have boxes in my room and basement…)
Ya gotta think BIG if you wants changes!
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Even I can’t find myself any longer – but I can’t very well keep my Eiffel Tower any longer when I’m outta there…. can I?! Tomorrow will be a huge day for me, my bro-in-law who knows no fear and lives, with my sister on less than a shoestring, will make some serious money by assembling (cross your fingers…. he manages) our long awaited shelves for our remaining few hundreds of books, our music, another line-up of business files, and hopefully with some space left for our linens….. The packs with ‘hundreds’ of parts arrived today. I might yet live to see this flat cleaned up and made live-able…
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Well… You could. But change is good. You guys be safe!
Oh the joys… Good luck with it all.
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Ah, poor man… but I love his ‘big dream’. So beautifully written, Dale!!!!
👏🤗😘❤
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A dreamer, for sure. But hey, keep dreaming, keep working at it and he’ll find his chance, I say.
Thank you, lovely lady! xoxo
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Yes, he will!!!!
Thank YOU, Dale!!!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
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xoxoxoxo
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Great story for the prompt, Dale. Here’s luck to Billy – hope the seams in his boat are chinked with putty or ’tis goin’ to be a wet steam 🙂
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Haha! Thanks SD… Let’s just say he best work on getting a bigger boat… 😉
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🙂 You’re welcome, Dale. Yes, if he’s planning a trip to warmer climes he’ll need a more seaworthy vessel, for sure …
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For sure!! 😉
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Good luck to him and his dreams!
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He’s gonna need it!
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Dear Dale,
Ya gotsta dream big and then sail after ’em. Hope he can look back on this day with pride. At least you can look on the story with pride. Love the dialogue. This is it!
Shalom and lotsa aspiring hugs,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
Ya gots to! As we know, dreamins’ but part o’ it. He’s gonna have to work at it.
Thank you, it was fun to write.
Shalom and lotsa dreaming for more love,
Dale
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I don’t blame him from wanting the heat and to be away from the cold. But as they say in Jaws – ‘gonna need a bigger boat’! Love the voice in this Dale.
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Glad you enjoyed, Lynn.
Oh yeah… gonna definitely need a bigger boat!
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☺️
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Geography can be a powerful motivator. After yesterday’s latest snow storm, Hawaii sounds better and better to me. ⛵️
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I bet it does! PLUS. You have your daughter…
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Hawai’i is a bit more ‘paradisey’ than Houston. 😈
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Hawai’i is definitely more paradisey than Houston and Boucherville 😉
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Love the dialogue and the accent along with a great story!
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Thank you, Jen!
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You’re welcome, Dale
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I loved your dialog, Dale. I could almost see the old salts Billy and Charles.
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Thank you, John. So glad you did! It was fun to write.
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I could tell. 😁
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Sweet! 🙂
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Q,
It’s all about the boat we use in getting where we wish to go isn’t it? Of course, the boat is a symbolic vessel, but it’s no less important. Because you gotta ask the pertinent questions. Are there holes in my wishes? Can it withstand storms that arise out of nowhere? And most importantly of all, will it stay afloat for the long journey?
You’ve got some great dialogue going on here. You should do more of that.
B
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B,
Count on you to see more than the obvious. Gosh, I love that.
As for the dialogue, thank you. It’s funny. For a time, I felt all my posts were dialogue-oriented and now that you mention it, it had been a good long while. I shall do my best.
Q
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You had me going with the boat, not because my land lubbing legs were itching to hop on board. But because it gave me an Andy Dufresne moment, of what dreams may come no matter the current situation.
You really hit one out of the park with this one, tell you what. 😉
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I was gonna say… You are not a sailor 😉 However, I LOVE the Andy Dufresne ref. Beauty. You have just given my 150 words way more heft.
Thank you kindly. I am rather chuffed 🙂
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No sailor here, you’re right.
And chyeah! I thought Andy as soon as I saw the boat, and then your dialogue had me thinking back to Andy in the yard with his pals, thinking about that sandy beach all along.
Heft is another great word. We’ve got two going on now . . Apt and Heft. Short, to the point, they pack a wallop.
Chuffed! The words keep coming!
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I know… tried to convince you 😉
I love it. Nothing makes me happier than when something I write evokes a memory or reminder of something.
We are rocking the words today!
Yessiree… it is, as you know, a favourite of mine.
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You so sweet. It wasn’t you, it was me.
It do, It did. It done. Did. You dig?
So many words, so much time to do with them what we wanna do with them.
I do know this.
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I know, I know. I might one day convince you 😉
I dig very much!
Isn’t that grand?
I know you know.
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We can pretend, how’s that?
I dig that you dig. You dig?
Like a ballroom . . or a slam . .
Both.
Sometimes I know more than at other times, but I always know something.
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For now.
We be digging all ’round, baby!
Poifect.
Yes, both.
Haha! Indeed.
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It’s as close as I’m getting to a boat. As Kenny Rogers once opined, you gotta know when to hold em and know when to fold em.
There’s words in them thar hills! So keep to the shoveling and we’re gonna find gold!
MUAH!
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Pffft! Good thing you’re cute.
That we will!
MWAH!!
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Don’t Pffft! me. I’ve got a medical condition that restricts my boat usage. I can’t go against the doctor’s orders.
Double MUAH!
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I’ll pffft you coz I can. And uh huh. Nice try. But I’ll let you!
And TRIPLE MWAH!!!
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Fair enough. And I’ll let YOU because you so lovely.
A triple MUAH?! I can’t top that.
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Awww shucks. I shall try not to abuse of your generosity.
Maybe not… but you can match it, of that I am certain! MWAH! MWAH! MWAH!
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Nevah
I can huh?
MUAH!! MUAH!! MUAH!! MUAH!!!
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🙂
See?
😘😘😘
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😘😘😘
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Oh, poor dude. He dreams big but the waves might be bigger … This was such a fun read! 🙂
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Hey… Ya gotta dream big… One step at a time…😉
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Hopefully one oar splash at a time … 😉
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Exactly!!
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🙂
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What a great story, I got shivering while I cracked up laughing
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Glad you enjoyed!
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Wonderful story of the power of dreams, Dale. Just what we need to hear now.
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Thank you, Vivi! I could not agree more!
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Love what might be in this story and all that comes after..:)
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So glad you do, George
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I hope he gets there! Great characters depicted through the dialogue Dale.
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Thank you, Andrea! Sorry for the delay. WP is being an ass ans not giving me my notifications!
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