FF – Not a Hat Shop
Here is my story for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo was contributed by Björn Rudberg.
This amount of hats just begged for a crazy Monty Python-esque scene.

Copyright Björn Rudberg
“Good day to you, Sir, and how may I help you?”
“Good day, Sir. I have need of a hat.”
“You are in luck, Sir, for we are a hat shop.”
“I see no hats, Sir.”
“Look around you, Sir, a veritable cornucopia of hats!”
“Ye-gads, Sir, no hats do I see!”
“Are you perhaps visually impaired, Sir?”
“The cheek! Since you have no hats I shall try one of your knitted tea-cosies. Perhaps that will keep my head warm. Yes, I’ll take it!”
“Of course, Sir.”
“These tea-cosies make excellent hats, Sir! Consider selling them as such.”
“Harrumph.”
Categories: Fiction
flash fiction, Friday Fictioneers
*Guffaw*! That was fun indeed, Alistair!
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I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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Ha… ingenious. I will wear a tea-cosy tomorrow I think
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Good idea, they make great hats!
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So Monty Python!! 😀 I’m ordering my tea-cosy! 😀
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Judging from the comments, I should have started a tea-cosy business and posted a link 🙂
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It’s all in the eye of the beholder! Such fun!
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I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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Dear Ali
This sounds like an scene from Mr. Magoo. Cute story.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
Thanks for the link, it does 🙂
Ali
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Wonderful – evoked happy memories of the Python sketches 🙂
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it! Such a bunch of funny madmen, they were 🙂
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Cute. I wish I looked better in hats. 😦
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Try a tea cosy 🙂
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Ah, yes. Well, thank you. 🙂
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🙂
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Lovely story.
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Thanks!
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Well done, Ali. Definitely a unique approach.
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!
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my hat is off to you for coming up with that delightful story. 🙂
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Ha! Thanks 🙂
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Ha ha ha ha ha. That was so much fun, especially the last lines 🙂
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I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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Wonderfully Python-y!!!
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Thanks! It has a touch of their fun madness about it 🙂
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LOL I’d buy half a dozen of those tea-cosies. Very colourful indeed 😀
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Me too. And they double as excellent hats too, I’m told 🙂
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A very, very fun story. 🙂Thanks for the smiles.
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it, and you’re welcome for the smiles 🙂
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A tea-cosy? lol
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Equally good at keeping heads and tea pots warm 🙂
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Yes, very practical. Life-saving.
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🙂
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It did sound like Mr Magoo. Funny one!
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!
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He’s going to feel silly when the first passerby on the street asks him why he has a tea cosy on his head…
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I’m sure he’ll have a curt yet witty response.
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Great, Ail. Good writing. It’s definitely a mixture of Monty Python and Mister McGoo. 😀 — Suzanne
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Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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The salesperson managed that very well, I thought!
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He wanted a sale no matter what his patron thought he was selling 🙂
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Hahahahahaha! Tea cozies. LOL!
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And they double as hats!
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Oh, they really do?? I have never seen one.
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No, they don’t really. I suppose you could wear one as a hat if you liked 🙂
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Oh okay. 😀 😀
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Wonderfull fun 🙂
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I’m glad you liked it!
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What a whimsical post, imagining clearly in my mind the exchange, with the accent and all! Made me laugh, very nice! =)
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Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it and were able to imagine the whole crazy scene unfold 🙂
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so nice – — ahhhh
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Cosy tea cosies 🙂 Or hats.
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ha
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Haha. I actually thought they were tea cosies when I first saw them! Love your yarn.
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Haha “yarn” 🙂 I’m glad you liked it. See, hat/cosy confusion is not so far-fetched after all.
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Ha ha – I could hear John Cleese and Michael Palin! Great story.
I’m going to resume writing stories with FF in the New Year.
Happy Christmas!
Susan A Eames at
Travel, Fiction and Photos
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I’m glad you could hear them in there 🙂
Happy Christmas and I look forward to your stories in the New Year!
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A fun scene with great dialogue. I could well imagine this as a Monty Python sketch, too.
Perhaps Santa will leave you a nice new tea cosy to go with the Christmassy jumper you got a couple of years ago. 🙂 Happy Christmas! 😀
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I’m glad you liked it!
Ooh, a tea cosy from Santa. Yay 🙂 Happy Christmas to all of you!
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Fun. It put me in mind of Monty Python’s cheese shop sketch, one of my favourites. Have a good Christmas
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it, and have a great Christmas!
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Silly story. Fun read.
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I’m glad you liked it!
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Although I’ve never seen Monty Python (unbelievable, right?), I found this hilarious! 😁
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Monty Python is a bit weird 🙂
I’m glad you enjoyed my story!
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Weird is good, as long as it’s funny. 🙂
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🙂
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As Rochelle always adds with the Thoreau quote, it’s not what you look at, it’s what you see. Although, I think the customer here might need their cataracts removing. These hats don’t look like tea cosies! Or I’d like to see the teapot they fit. There’s another Python sketch for you to write. 🙂
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Surely you mean those tea cosies don’t look like hats heh heh 🙂
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Haha, that was fun.
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I’m glad you liked it!
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Haha! Thanks, for the smiles Ali. 🙂
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I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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