‘Mother, where’s the thingamajig for opening jars?’
‘In the knife drawer.’
I open the knife drawer, which has no knives in it. I rummage through all sorts of instruments; peelers, weird scoop things, funny scissors, whizzers and all shapes of silicone. A slip-on spout? Gadgets with attachments, blades and prongs. A spork and a chork? What happened the chopsticks?
Ah… here it is. The yoke for opening jars!
I suppose mother needs all these accoutrements. How else would she peel fruit, slice avocados, zest her lemons, measure spaghetti, spiralize veggies, flip her lids, and beat her meat? I wonder!
In response to Charli Mills’ 99 Word Flash Fiction Challenge. In 99 words (no more, no less), write about tools. Whose tools are they and how do they fit into the story? What kind of tools? Go where the prompt leads!
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A good one. Every woman needs a drawer like that. Mom called it a junk drawer. I still have one.
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We just call ours ‘the drawer.’ It can be a dangerous place sometimes Darlene!
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I keep different precious things in my drawers 😇 but I could rummage in yours for hours, I see a honey drizzler, that thought waters my mouth for pancake. Great take on the prompt Gloria.
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Thanks Ellen. I could have written about my own gadget drawer, but I wouldn’t fit it all in 99 words! 😜
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😃
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Tooling on mom a bit, but she’s not the only one with a drawer like that.
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She most certainly isn’t D. 😄
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The kitchen tools! Oh, yes. Love the humor, Gloria! Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I can’t wait to use that one tool way in the back with the rubber bulb. My Mom used to set a timer to baste the turkey and she’d proclaim, ‘Time to go suck off the turkey.” I never really thought about that any other way until my then-boyfriend, now-husband got the biggest grin on his face that year at our family’s table!
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😂 That’s hilarious Charli!
I used to have one of those basting tools. God knows where it went to! 🤔
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Happy Thanksgiving Day 🙂
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I think my drawer may be similar.
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We all have them Esme. 😄
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I remember cleaning out my mother’s catch-all draw and not knowing what some if the items were used for.
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‘Catch-all drawer’. Perfect name for it! 😃
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