99 word prompt : Crudely Oil
April 27, 2017 prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that includes oil. It can be an oil refinery, the raw product or used as a commodity. How does oil fit into a plot or a genre? Go where the prompt leads.
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Three decades ago, at the slender age of 41, unemployment loomed in my future. My sister tried to help me find a job, so she asked a friend in the oil industry about hiring me.
Pre Hurricane Ike, amidst the oil refineries of coastal Texas and Louisiana, my sister arranged a lunch meeting to discuss the terms of my employment.
Startled, like he’d just witnessed the first case of a tyrannous walking into a bar with a greyhound, he said, “She’s so delicate, not sturdy like you. I was expecting someone built like a man.”
I think he lived.
This is terrific. I can imagine at least a black eye!!
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LOL!
Thanks.
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🙂
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Good Lord!
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LOL!
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Douche! 🙂 I hope you reminded him of the power in small packages.
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When he described the job, the only thing I was capable of doing was the reports unless I buffed out at a gym and started running Marathons to build up my endurance. It required someone with good math skills (not my forte), someone who didn’t mind getting really, really grimy every day, and climbing lots of steps several times a day.
It’s just really, really funny when someone else besides me makes assumptions about one sibling based upon the other. 🙂
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Yikes! And egads to your last line!! I am a twin and lived most of my life being compared to the “good” twin. 🙂
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Identical or fraternal twin? Either way, someone needed to be walloped behind the woodshed for calling your sibling the “good” twin.”
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Fraternal…thank goodness! I agree but let go of it a long time ago. I was definitely the black sheep of the family and while that was difficult when growing up, I embraced it as an adult. 😛
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Difficult to understand some people…..still made .e laugh at the thought of it x🐾🐾🐾🐾😸
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Remember the movie “Twins” with Arnie and Danny Devito? Nothing alike.
The only things my sister and I have in common are our parents and a lot of love for each other.
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That’ sound about right for the industry, an oily supervisor. 😀 Great take on the prompt!
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Thanks. He was taken by complete surprise. We say some strange things when we’re dumbfounded. 🙂
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I did enjoy this, oh to have been a fly upon the wall…
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It was funny. 🙂
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So long as you could laugh about it..
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How many words did you use to respond?
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LOL! Good one!
MS word counted 99.
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