99 word prompt: Bottleneck
August 30, 2018, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story about a bottleneck. You can be literal or use the term to describe congestion. Go where the prompt leads.
If you want to participate here’s the link: https://carrotranch.com/2018/08/31/august-30-flash-fiction-challenge/
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We waited behind a semi, unable to see what blocked the road ahead. I sneezed at the diesel exhaust and asked my wife, “Found anything yet?”
The truck moved forward a few feet, and then stopped again, cars merged from the left lane as my wife stared at her tablet. “We’ll be out of this bottleneck in another 50 feet.”
“Was there an accident?”
“No,” she sighed. Traffic moved past an area where the left lane was devoid of anything but a lone boot.
That’s all it takes to stop traffic in LA — a shoe in the road.
Could have been a fork………………………. (sorry, I’ll leave now\)
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LOL!!!!
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Ha, ha! The infamous shoe jam of LA!
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This one is based on truth. It actually happened. My then-hubby and I were traveling from the SF area to 29 palms and hit a traffic jam. We were in it for an hour or so when we finally got to the place where no one was in the left lane. There was literally a boot in the road.
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If anything, it makes a good nugget to save for a story!
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Traffic certainly can get on ones nerve at bottlenecks. Nice story.
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Definitely.
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That’s a good one!
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Thanks. 🙂
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