There’s got to be an interesting story behind this week’s Friday Fictioneers prompt photo, but I bet you’d need more than a hundred words to tell it. So here’s my take on it, about an encounter with an honest used car salesman –
How I Bought My First Car
Run? Sure it runs. Tow it up to the top of a hill and let ‘er go, she won’t stop for nothing till she gets to the bottom. Yeah, it’s got some miles on it. Weed out the parts that don’t hold up, you know? Them seat backs, they musta been back and forth a thousand miles apiece up and down those store aisles. Babies gummin’ the heck out of the handles. Good as new.
Her top speed? Why, she won a race just last week. Against my grandpa. He’s pretty fast on his feet for a ninety year old man, but she left him right in the dust. Yep.
I sure hate to part with her. You want it or not?
A Number of Things 
Great to hear some truth from the mouth of a car salesman…
It had to happen some day 🙂
Totally hilarious! I love the line about the babies gumming the handles.
Thank you! You know those cart handles must have seen a lot of drool 😉
I enjoyed this!
Thank you 🙂
Really enjoyed this tale – especially the bit about the babies gumming up the trolley handles. Lovely touch. And the race against grandpa. Hilarious.
Thank you thank you! It’s always hard to tell whether something I think is funny will strike a reader the same way. 😀
You’d make an excellent salesperson… =)
Mm, well, no. I couldn’t do it with a straight face. 😉
I love it when you do funny – you do it so well! 🙂
Gilly, thank you so very much!
Babies gummin’ the heck out of the handles. 🙂 That salesman will sell a lot of cars by reversing – psychology …
Doesn’t that car just look cute and adorable once you think of the babies? 😉
He’s selling that car. I might even consider giving an offer. 😀 :lol :
It’s a conversation piece, at least 🙂
🙂
😉
such a confident sales spiel – nicely done.
Thank you! But would you buy that car?
Dear Sharon,
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(nuff said)
Rochelle
🙂 😀 🙂
My favorite line:”You want it or not?”
Thanks! And that’s something I’ve heard real-world salesmen say (I’m sure we all have!)
Babies gummin’ the handles… I love it!
Thanks! You just can’t stop them, at least until the tooth comes through. 😉
This is terrific!
Thank you so much!
that was the most fun i read all week. well done.
Wow, Rich, thank you!! I can’t tell you how delighted I am that other people besides me think it’s funny.
I love the line about winning the race against grandpa – wonderful.
Thank you so much! (Grandpa’s race is one of my own favorite parts of this story 😉 )
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I liked the part about the car beating the 90 year old.
And what makes it a great deal is that you never have to worry about the price of gravity going up!! Thanks. 😉