One Old Penny
Michael here is a penny, please could you go round to the phone box and call your dad. Ask him to come home as grandad is unwell.
Operator: please have your money ready. Hello operator pleased could you put me through to the fire station, as my grandad is poorly.
Hello, county fire control switch board here, how may we help?
Please is my father Ron available, his mother says that he is to come home as grandad is unwell.
Hello Michael, we are sending a fire engine at once, your father will be driving it…
Michael do wake up…
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A dream from your own memory? Nice piece of nostalgia.
Certainly a dream, yet as a child I spent quite some time at fire stations. So pleased to get your observations.
Amidst all the mocking and the irritation towards mobile phones, these are instances where one might be really handy. As usual, excellent take Michael. Enjoyed reading this one.
Varad I was so pleased to get your feedback. In Yorkshire there are still areas where mobile phone coverage is still non existent.
A penny in the slot! Whata wonderful trip back in time.
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Hi Keith, I did enjoy reading your predictive texting story it made me smile. However at present I seem unable to comment on google and blogger sites.
I love the presentation of this story. It complements the thread.
Sandra, thank you so much for such a kind comment.
Dear Michael,
A penny? Sweet little bit of a boy’s history. I enjoyed this.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thank you Rochelle.
Lovely. A great childhood.
Thank you Patrick
Aww… the good old days when everyone knew everyone else.
Thank you Courtney, there was a lot that was good, yet …
I am having trouble in commenting on your website. I tried before, I am again trying it today. But your post was was stellar. To connect dreams and memories with an object that’s not private,yet still is.. It was evocative, of trust..Reminiscent of times when believe and help were more than just mere words..
Hi Sight 11 , sorry to hear about your struggle to comment. Thank you for your feedback and comments.
Sweet. 🙂 Very nicely done indeed.
Natasha, thank you for your feedback.
Inventive, Mike! Really good, it kept interest. I could see it all happening from the start.
Five out of five lucky pennies. 🙂
Thank you Kent, so pleased to read your comments.
Was great to walk back in time through your story, Michael . Thank you .
Lovely story .
Hi Moon, I was so glad to read your feedback.
Very well knit. Alas for the times when local was global.
Alas indeed. So pleased that you feel I can knit. Trouble is I am knitting woolly swimming trunks!
The slow pace of this provided an ethereal quality helping us to understand it as a dream. Well told.
I am so pleased if it worked in that way… Sometimes I do jump in to quickly with a story line, then later a different idea for the prompt turns up.
That was truly well done, Michael. Such a lovely take.
Dale. Thank you for such a kind comment.
I knew he was dreaming when the call cost only a penny. Good one.
Spot on Christine, thanking you for your support
Sounds like quite a small town, which can dispatch the fire engine to check on granddad! And only a penny – I remember when tuppence was enough for a call 🙂
It certainly was a small but very historic town, with a population of less than a thousand. No fire station there since the early 1960s. Everything was a penny to this five year old.
Yeah, I’m with Christine– a penny? I do remember when a dime did the job, maybe a nickel. Things grow hazy in the mists of time:)
At the age of five, everything was a penny in my dreams. Even now I believe in that old saying, save the penny’s and the pounds will look after themselves.
most definitely, a penny for my thoughts. well done. 🙂
Thank you Plaridel.
It was fourpence in the slot when I was a girl!
Dreams are just like that!
Thank you Dawn,
That was a lovely memory/dream. But I’m worried about granddad now…
You read my story so well. Thank you.
Interesting take on the prompt 🙂
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Pleased that you enjoyed it.