Writing Prompt #8 - We are all surrounded by gadgets. If your favorite one
failed, what else could you use it for?
Stephen didn’t know whether to laugh or cry as he
recalled the events of the last hour. He looked at his valuable and now
extremely damaged piece of equipment and decided to do both. How he wished he
could crawl into his 3-year-old daughter’s head to know what she was thinking!
He imagined it must have gone something like this…
“I want to make a cake for Daddy’s birthday. I can
use my play-dough to make it! And I can put M&Ms in it too. Yummy! Ok, it’s
mixed together. But it’s a big ball…I need it to be flat. Where is Mommy’s
rolling pin? Oh dear. I can’t find it. Ooooh, look, there is Daddy’s cool thing
with the neat buttons on it. If I open it up and put my play-dough in it, I can
close it, and then it will smash flat. Oh, goody! It worked! Now I have a
beautiful cake for Daddy, and it even has a pretty design on it!”
Stephen groaned again as he looked at his laptop,
with the keys covered in red play-dough. How would he ever get it out and make
it usable again? And should he discipline his daughter, or thank her for
sweetly making him a birthday cake?
“Oh, the joys of parenthood,” he sighed, before
bursting into another fit of crying laughter.
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