His new-found wealth went
straight to his head; the delights
of the shop winked at him
from every counter, every shelf.
“Don’t spend it all at once!”
his uncle had said on his
annual visit from overseas. But
what the heck! Why not?
“A Wagon Wheel, two Penguins –
‘alf a pound of Spanish Gold,
free flying saucers – green ones,
and a bag of aniseed balls.”
“Will that be all, sir? How about
a pack of sweet cigarettes, or
maybe sir would like a Mars bar?”
“No – nuffink else. Fresh out of
the readies. Unless you got somefink...
buy one, get one free, o’course.”
“Tell you what,” the shopkeeper says,
“I’ll do you a deal, but don’t go
'spreading it around, mind.
Come here, son; it’ll be our little secret.
Let’s shake on it. Give me a ‘Please’
and out of the goodness of my heart
I’ll throw in a ‘Thank you’, no charge.”
Comments
shoe | February 3, 2010 - 11:03
Brilliant! I love the humour in this,:~}
Silver Spun Sand | February 3, 2010 - 11:05
Ta, muchly, Shirley.
As they say, 'Many a true word is spoken in jest."
Tina;-)
MistakenMagic | February 3, 2010 - 15:45
'the delights
of the shop winked at him
from every counter, every shelf.'
- love these lines, Tina! I too am quite partial to Wagon Wheels ;) Brilliant poem that made me smile!
Magic xxx
Silver Spun Sand | February 3, 2010 - 16:18
And you made me smile. Thank you, Magic;-)
Tina xxx
Cavalcaderl | February 3, 2010 - 21:20
julie x cavalcader
very good. Love the characters and accent.
Made me laugh. Like the father and son and coaxing
and worming the words please1! and thankyou! Never
here much now. Computer crashed to-day. But not done
anything long while.Paper states too long on, can give start depression! or some go on to get rid of it.Do you know who wrote "Powder Your Face With Sunshine" as busy maybe learning songs.
Silver-spun who sang it, I'm trying! words
I can picture the shop keeper and son bartering, for products.
julie x
Silver Spun Sand | February 3, 2010 - 21:55
Julie, I have missed you;-)Sorry to hear about your computer.
As to 'Powder your Face with Sunshine, both Dean Martin and Doris Day(with someone else, who quite escapes my mind), recorded it 1948. It was written by a Carmen Lombardo and again another person that I can't remember, but I hope this helps;-)
My thanks to you for reading and glad you enjoyed.
Tina ;-)x
Cavalcaderl | February 7, 2010 - 15:43
Silver-spun-sand
Thanks missed you too.
taken in donation
for "Hiati" as done nothing on here.Unless used
old story and brushed it up.Last time I sent it to Sir "Nic Parker" way back children fund answer back, Oxfam shop nice.
Thankyou help on songs.
Bit chesty after wind and rain."Simon Cowell" not well either. What happened other poem, I didn't comment. To sad my thoughts were with you as I knew
I read it before sad difficult to reply.."Simon Cowell's up now. Plus me Big Soup veg: one nice
followed by potato soup was bit like cat's cry
Feb;7th.2010
Oh! used this comment like chat thing I mustn't.Paper
But states Cat people are cleverer We don't have a cat so counts me out.
Their more likely to own Cat's than dogs,a study revealed.
People with degrees were favoured to own Cats than dogs.Because longer time working hours leave less time to devote to a dog,etc;Bristol University long term study.Doesn't say much then people no cats.Mine extra clever people.
I am sure there be a debate on this now on Abctales. What do you say? Congrats: on the cherry!
julie x
Beeme | February 9, 2010 - 19:25
This also made me smile another fabulous take on the IP. Much enjoyed :)
Beeme xx