Saturday, April 27, 2013

X is for Xanax Moment


“You WHAT?!”
“Was that wrong?” I stammered, surprised by the sudden venom in his voice.

His glare told me it was.

“Well…you’re the one who told me to get rid of it.”

He grunted, throwing his hands up in the air. “I didn’t think you’d do that.”

My eyes lowered to the floor; but that was the wrong place to look. The water was getting deeper.

“That’s what we did with the last one,” I murmured, glancing towards the overflowing toilet.

“That was a goldfish, Maureen, not a chinchilla.”

25 comments:

  1. Oooopzzz.... that was sad to do to a goldfish!!!!

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  2. I think I've heard chinchilla ... but I cannot place what is it.

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    1. It's a pudgy rodent that many people keep as pets.

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  3. Yikes! That's a bit of an oops. ;) Nice work!

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  5. You're going to need a high-flow toilet for mammal-flushing.

    John at The Bathroom Monologues

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  6. Great post, enjoyed very much,

    Yvonne.

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  7. I like how you seemed to be leading me one place, then twisted in another direction. I ended up laughing.

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  8. That is HILARIOUS and not at all what I was expecting. LOL!

    I might challenge myself to write some short stories like this...I bet it's harder than it seems!

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  9. LOL! Great short. Nice character details too. Writer’s Mark

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  10. Superb, Melanie! I love your slices of a bigger picture, how your minimal use of words create a whole expanded view! You are awesome.

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  11. What an undignified end for the poor chinchilla.

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  12. OMG... Poor little chinchilla :P

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  13. I probably would've had a heart attack as a kid if that had happened to me. I insisted on burying my fish (whose deaths I inadvertently caused by lifting them out of the water) in the front yard of our apartment, in paper clip boxes.

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  14. Also a laugh out loud moment. Good one!

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  15. Maureen isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, is she? OMG.

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  16. I just love how your posts keep my guessing right up to the very end.

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  17. Superbly written article, if only all bloggers offered the same content as you, the internet would be a far better place.. xanax

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