This week’s Friday Fictioneer’s photo prompt is a bit fishy. Go to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’ excellent blog to see all the entries and to participate yourself. Why not? It’s fun.
Here is Bumba’s entry, which is even fishier than the picture.
As I drove along the 105 I pondered the phenomenon that everyone stayed in their lanes and obeyed all the rules. What with all the crazy, unmanageable, half-criminal types out there, you can nonetheless rely on them to stop at stop signs and red lights. It must be some universal conformity principle, some genetically ingrained social instinct that keeps them in line, keeps them from wandering too far…. Keeps us from….keeps us from ….from …..
Here the narrative is interrupted by the following police report:
Date 10/30/13: Man killed on 105 freeway. Cause of death: wandered out of lane.
An Occasional Story or Magazine 
Dangit. Now I’m wondering about the fish lanes, and whether they’re properly patrolled and monitored. Thanks for the thought and the good read.
Thank you for the visit, and watch out for those big-finned cars and other gas guzzlers.
I bet this came to you as you sat in the traffic.
If I could write while I’m stuck in traffic, I’d have that novel done.
You need a voice recorder. 😉
I can relate to the man in the story. I’ve often thought the same thing. Although I don’t wander out of my lane like he did. I also have thought about why people all agree to stand in line obediently at the grocery story but in this case I have been known to slyly crowd to the front. Great story!
Oh. So you’re the one who cut in front of me on that line?
LOL! I’m afraid so! 😀
Stephen, I think he thought too much. At least he wasn’t texting while driving. Great story. – Amy
Guilty as charged. But innocent of texting. Too busy worrying about the traffic regulations.
Dear Stephen,
Obviously you’ve driven by me on the freeway. Scary, eh? Good story.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thank you, Rochelle. Thanks for the Friday prompts. it’s a very nice thing to do.
Dear Bumba,
That’s a great story that has left a smile on my face even as I text this to you in the middle of the morning commute.
Aloha,
Doug
Interesting take on the fish story. My brother told me he once took LSD and wondered onto the Freeway in Los Angeles, of all places. He was terrified for a few minutes and then in his psychedelic haze, realised that the cars actually DID stay in their lanes. He wondered off at the next exit and lived to tell the tale.
Interesting. Thanks for visiting.
Do you have a wordpress blog? I’m not on Facebook. Political reasons.
Reminds me of when I first realized money was just paper. Had a momentary urge to burn the cash in my wallet. But it passed!
Let me know next time you think of doing that. i’ll take some of that kindling off your hands.
LOL – really good – one of your best.
Next time, don’t drive like a koi 🙂
Or drive a car with big fins.