FF – The Power of Positive Thought
Here is my story for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo was contributed by Miles Rost.
“It is the power of the mind. The bug hasn’t seen the 30,000 volt warning. It believes it will be okay. Therefore, it alights on the cable and is unharmed.”
“Your logic is flawed, mate.”
“I too believe that I will not be harmed.”
“See, unlike the bug you would also be touching the ground, creating a potential difference…”
“I cannot be harmed!”
“… so you’d be killed, basically.”
“I grab the cable! I believe aaaaarrrrrrrgghhhhhhh!”
bzzzz crackle fizz whooomp burn burn crackle burn
“Wow. That’s one heck of a blaze. Has anyone got any marshmallows?”
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“Too soon?”
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Someone’s logic was false it seems, but Marshmallows really🙂
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Marshmallows are always appropriate 🙂
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Scorchingly funny! 😀
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Hee thanks 🙂
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You just can’t tell some people
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They have to learn the hard way.
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I have some!!
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Let’s get toasting before he goes out!
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He should be prosecuted. It is illegal to flash in public!
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Best wait for him to burn himself out before slapping on the cuffs.
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May as well put all that heat to a good use, right?
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It’s what he would have wanted 🙂
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Dear Ali,
I guess when life hands you 30,000 volts you toast marshmallows. 😉
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
Never a truer word spoken 🙂
Ali
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Now that made me laugh out loud! The marshmallows are a perfect touch. A fun story. (OK, a bit sad for the guy, but hey…!)
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Well, survival of the fittest I guess! I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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That is horrible. What if the marshmallows pick up some of that burning flesh flavor? Yuck!
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Oh boy, you’re right! Some people have no sense at all…
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Searing, this! 😉
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Hee, very 🙂
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😀
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moral of the story, i guess, is you win some, you lose some. 🙂
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Yep. Though losing doesn’t usually mean bursting into flames 🙂
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Seems there’s a bbq in here…MOL…Loved it! Pawkisses for a Happy Day🐾😽💞
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Yes, I hope he burns long enough to get the burgers done 🙂
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After two sets of ellipses, I think enough time has passed for it to be socially acceptable to make fun of the deceased. Unless it were someone who was famous and revered, in which case, three sets of ellipses should be sufficient mourning time…
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I’ll have to remember that the next time I want to crack a joke at the expense of the recently deceased…
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Haha! I love it, well done!
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Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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Can’t say I didn’t see that coming. I’ll pass on the marshmallows though, that smell…
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This one had a rather obvious build-up 🙂 Hold your nose and enjoy the marshmallows!
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Eew. 🤪
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That reminds me of the time I accidentally grabbed an electric fence and got a bit of a shock in both senses of the word! Nice one Ali.
Here’s mine!
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Yeah, I did that a few times as a kid!
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Another great theory goes up in smoke! So true to life, metaphorically: always some angle that’s not been factored in.
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So easy to forget that one little thing which turns success into incineration.
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Marshmallows! What a great idea. Fun story 🙂
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An open fire just says “marshmallows” 🙂
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It sure does!
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As they say, believe the science it is never wrong, where as faith can let you down big style if you apply it against logic. there must have been a terrible smell!
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I can’t imagine it smelled all that nice!
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“The good thing about science is that it works whether or not you believe it”
I’m not quite sure that your incinerated character would feel quite so positive towards the science being right…
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Well, if he’d got his science right he would have realised he was completing a circuit 🙂 Bit late for him now, though!
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Haha! Enjoyed!
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I’m glad you liked it!
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Idiot…serves him right. He won’t make that mistake again. Reminds me of the first time I got bit by the electric fence out on the farm. Threw me a good ten feet across the lot, and I landed in a pile of cow ma—/. Anyway, good tale.
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Nope, especially since he’s now a smouldering charcoal briquette 🙂
Wow, I’ve touched an electric fence before but it only gave me a small jolt. I don’t think we’re allowed to have ones which send you flying over here!
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The day I touched it, by accident when my oversized glove slipped, it was cranked up because they had new cows in the corral. Let’s say I learned the lesson to take extra care around it.
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Wow, I bet!
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Don’t think I’ll ever look at toasted marshmallow the same again. 😄😄
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Forever associated with “the burning man” 😮
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Nothing is impossible!
(Some things were impossible…)
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It’s when nothing appears impossible that accidents happen… 🙂
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Great use of dialogue! …But I don’t like marshmallows 😮
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Maybe we can find something else for you to toast 🙂
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I think we found the Darwin Award winner for the year, or maybe the decade. All raise a toast to the winner.
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He certainly had the lacks of brains for it!
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Waste not, want not. Have fire, will roast!
There’s no reasoning with some folks!
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Some people never learn until they’ve tried it and burst into flames.
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Exactly! The doubting Thomases of this world!!
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loved this poem it made me laugh!!
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I’m glad you liked it!
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Great story, he just wouldn’t listen, oh dear. Beliefs before facts I guess.
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Some people are convinced they’re always right.
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So if he would have just hopped up on the cable without touching anything else he would be fine? (I really don’t know the answer to this question.)
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Yes, like a bird on an electricity wire. If your whole body is at 30,000 volts you’re fine, it’s a difference in voltage which allows current to flow which kills you.
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Ah! I think he should have listened to his friend. I’ll pass on the marshmallows though 😉
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Nice words😁
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Thanks 🙂
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Ignacio haven’t seen it, but I’ve heard there is a video of a guy trying something similar with a pack of grizzleys… It supposedly ends in a similar way, too. Unless you choose to believe otherwise, of course.
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That’s something I’d like to see 🙂
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Hello everyone ! can anyone advise where I can buy Wi Pod Concentrate Device Kit?
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Loved reading this tthank you
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You’re welcome.
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