This Friday’s photo prompt for the Friday Fictioneers courtesy of R.W. is this bar: 
Magruder sat at the downtown bar room. It was already 3:30 in the afternoon. He had yet to make a sale.
Magruder was tired. His feet hurt.
The vacuum cleaner business wasn’t what it used to be, but what was?
People would ask him: “How’s the vacuum business, Mac?”
Magruder would respond:
“The vacuum business? It sucks! Ha Ha”.
Old joke, but what the heck. It was true.
He smiled to himself and slugged down his beer.
What a business! What a life!
Magruder looked across the room at the bar maid. She wasn’t a bad looker. Maybe later.
An Occasional Story or Magazine 
Reminds me of the old add:
Nothing sucks like an Electrolux
Good one. I’ll have to use that in my next story.
The photo prompt this week was a good one. The stories follow easily. So thanks to you, Rochelle.
Dear Stephen,
This one made me smile. Simple, concise and charming. And remember, they’re only old if you’ve heard them. 😉
shalom,
Rochelle
That barmaid looks like she is saying the same thing…”maybe later”.
Hope so.
Yeah, it’s an awfully cheap joke.
Did chuckle. Couldn’t help it.
What a charmer… the type of man that would use one-liners to try and pick up ladies far too young and beautiful — annoying in real life, a delight in fiction.
Cheers, darling!
Guilty as charged.
Magruder was thinking of giving the bar maid a little demonstration of his product later after fortifying himself, I take it. Bars have a way of pumping air back into the vacuums of our lives. Randy
A sale is a sale.
Barroom clutter, Bumba, but it works so well. I’ll have a beer as I take a closer look. … cheers!! 🙂 xPenx
Cheers.
Well just thank goodness you left the “it sucks” reference to the vacuum cleaners.
Good thing I didn’t make him a tupperware salesman.
Yes..and that…
It sucks!!! Haha love it. Very well done
I had to dust off that one.