FF – Wife Unfazed
Here is my story for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo was contributed by Fatima Fakier Deria.
Copyright Fatima Fakier Deria
“Hey, get outta the way! Yes, you! Where’s that horn…”
Whaaaa wha wha whaaaa!
“What you lookin’ at? You wanna piece ‘a me? YOU WANNA PIECE ‘A ME? Thought not. Coming through! Oy, you with the vegetable boat. SHIFT IT! Full speed ahead…”
Smash crunch sink sink sink
“…screw you and your cabbages…”
Meanwhile, below-decks…
“Yes, Dorothy, on the canals… his stress levels? Not noticeably, no… it was supposed to be a de-stresser for top executives, yes… not working, no…”
“Aaaargh!” splash
“…think he’s fallen in… go back for him? No, I don’t think so… much more enjoyable now, yes…”
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draliman on life 
Sounds like the de-stressing went perfect… for her.
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Yep! I started out “same old” but has taken a definite turn for the better!
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Sounds like a Monday morning commute. 😉
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Ha, you’re not wrong!
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Nothing like a good throwing people in the canal to get some stress of your chest… 😀
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I hope he can swim. Or not 🙂
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Instead of road rage … Very entertaining! 🙂
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They don’t have enough roads in Venice, they’ve had to improvise 🙂
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🙀….MOL 😀 Great story, Draliman 😀 Pawkisses for a Happy Day 🙂 ❤
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I’m glad you liked it LB 🙂
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I love that “much more enjoyable now” line,.
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It’s quite a relief for her, I’m sure 🙂 I’m glad you liked it!
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Smooth sailing for her! 😀
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Now that the “obstacle” is out of the way 🙂
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Clearly hasn’t read the canal etiquette handbook!
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He’s the sort of person who doesn’t believe rules are meant for him… 🙂
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So funny. Talk about out of his element! You take a man out of the city, but you cant take the city of of the man!
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Exactly. There will be no de-stressing him!
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So… that went well… 😉
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For her, in any case 🙂
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I think he’s swopped one kind of stress for another. But at least he’ll be a little cooler now. In fact, everyone will.
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It’s worked out well for everyone!
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I’ve heard that petting sharks can lower your blood pressure and reduce stress. I guess we’ll find out…
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After they chomp down your blood pressure quickly lowers to zero. And stress is the least (or last) of your worries.
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How romantic 🙂
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Love on the canals 🙂
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That was pretty frantic!
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It’ll be a lot calmer now he’s gone in the drink.
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Hahaha
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🙂
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Dear Ali,
We all de-stress in our own ways, don’t we? 😉 Funny. Well not for the big mouth who went overboard.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
Everyone will be a lot less stressed now that he’s out of the way 🙂
Ali
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Good one… methinks thou doest need to de-stress… loved it! I can only imagine the traffic jam on the canal, too.
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I’m sure some of the canals in Venice are as busy as the roads in some cities at rush hour 🙂
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Well, at least SHE got de-stressed 🙂
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A partial success, then 🙂
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Ha, ha. You can put another notch on your blog. You’ve killed off another character, Ali. At least it was a happy ending for his wife. 😀 — Suzanne
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She’s rather pleased and looking forward to the rest of her holiday 🙂
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Haha! Nice one, Ali! Will he be any cooler when he climbs out, or just steaming, I wonder?
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Probably steaming but she’ll be off down the canal by then 🙂
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Ha! I keep being told how relaxing canal boats are and you’ve proved my own instincts were right – they aren’t at all! Great stuff
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Inevitably there will be a jam or a wait at a lock or it’ll sink or some such 🙂
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Yes indeed! Or one of those long staircases of locks that take hours to get through! 🙂
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🙂
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well, i just hope she knows how to swim. 🙂
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As long as he doesn’t manage to swim back to the boat she’ll be happy 🙂
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I love the way you combined all the snatches of conversation. Great job.
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Thanks, I wasn’t sure it was going to work okay.
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It worked very well.
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🙂
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Great job of the diologue. You captured the different characters very well.
Best wishes,
Rowena
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Thanks, I’m glad their quite different personalities came through!
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Brilliant. And I don’t blame her for leaving him behind!
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Me neither – she deserves a holiday too! I’m glad you liked it.
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Great dialogue giving a sense of these characters. She will definitely have a better time now he’s fallen off.
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She will for sure. A holiday from him!
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The contrast of him yelling at the cabbage vendor while she below decks calmly talking is truly entertaining. Somehow, because it’s been a long day, I hope he can’t swim. Thanks for the smile, Ali.
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The poor woman’s so used to it by now she’s created herself a shell. With any luck, at the very least the rescue will take enough time for her boat to get out of range 🙂 I’m glad you liked it!
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I don’t want big mouth to actually drown. I want him to have a humiliating rescue. Then I want her to find some peaceful waters away from him where she can tell other people the story and laugh her socks off. Terrific dialogue.
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Me too! We don’t want him dead, we want him horribly humiliated. Bring him down a peg or two while she has a nice relaxing holiday 🙂
I’m glad you liked it!
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Great stuff, wonderful comedy, well done
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!
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You have filled my eyes with tears… my mouth with smiles… Thank you, Ali. The humour here is so Italian. Chow!
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I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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Fighting traffic on waterways is no less stressful than doing so on motorways. 😜
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Just in slo-mo 🙂
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I feel sorry for the unlucky boat and its passengers who take pity on him and scoop him out of the water.
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I’m guessing they won’t get any thanks!
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Oh dear – the de-stressing experience went horribly wrong ! Who said Venetian canals guaranteed serenity ?
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Probably someone who’s never been to Venice (I haven’t either but it looked pretty busy in the photo) 🙂
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Made me chuckle. My best mate lived a canal boat- Kennet and Avon Nr Bath – many moons ago. We had such fun, which usually involves cider, hic. Nice blog brought back happy memories. Oh the tales I could tell.
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That does sound lovely! It sounds like the sort of thing I would have jumped at in my younger days. I rarely venture as far north as Bath these days but I seem to recall it’s a lovely area.
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feels so New York – and well done – could feel this character
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Thanks! He’s definitely from some big city where everyone crashes around the place yelling at each other.
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ha – that rings true right here because we had a car actually flip over at a WA Wa gas station yesterday – all from road rage
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Yikes.
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🙂
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