FF – Tree Man
Here is my story for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo was contributed by Sandra Crook.
In the following story, names have been changed to protect any real (or imagined) businesses who may or may not be good/bad/indifferent to the environment 🙂
Tired, the man sat on the trunk, not noticing the peeling bark, the mottling on the wood. The stump was diseased.
Spores penetrated his skin. His arms, his legs, his whole body was growing bark, leaves!
He was becoming… Tree Man!
He would become an eco-warrior without equal!
“What happened Dad, what happened?”
“Well, son, just as he began his eco-campaign someone chopped him down to build a MacDoonald’s.”
“Aw, Daaaadddd!”
“Go to sleep, son. And remember my words.”
Years later, the son became one of the world’s premier climate change campaigners. Until someone unfortunately bulldozed him over to build a Burrgerr King.
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draliman on life 
Don’t worry. The hurricanes will blow away the burger joints
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Woohoo! That’s an… um… relief 😮
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We mean well. We’d love to save the planet…but other things just come first.
Actually, I thought about the ecology just yesterday. As I was stuffing wet wash in the dryer, I recalled Grandma pegging out the sheets on her wind and solar-powered clothesline. Thank goodness for dryers. 😉
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Yes. They use tons of electricity, but with all the rain around here I’d never get anything dry without mine 🙂
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Oh that’s such a tragic story. Maybe one day they’ll gang up and revolt against us
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Some sort of Triffid tree situation perhaps 🙂
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Ah, Macdonalds the scum of the earth – well one of them at least! A very creative story well done.
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No no no, “MacDoonald’s” – let’s not get involved in any unfortunate legal wranglings 😉
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Lol, okay!
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Dear Ali,
I’d like to bulldoze MacDonald’s myself. Burger King runs a close second.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
I don’t know what these places put in the burgers, but if I have one at a motorway service station, half a mile down the road I’m suddenly craving another one…
Ali
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Hopefully, the son had a son to take revenge on Bugga King.
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I reckon he did, Brgr Kong had better watch out!
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Treebeard shall have the ultimate revenge!
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Gotta love Treebeard!
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There’s no stopping him and his mates, even if you’re a master magician with an army behind you 🙂
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The lot of the burger joints should be razed. Well done, you!
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Yeah, away with them 🙂
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Watch people’s waistlines whittle away…
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More truth than fiction. Nothing and no one shall stand in the way of progress. Imagining the last human on the planet standing in a wasteland and still screaming it.
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At least they’ll have a good choice of burgers to see out the end of the world with.
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Great take on the picture, Ali. Not your usual blood thirsty post … oh wait … yes, a guy got himself killed by a bulldozer 😀
Don’t have Burger King here in Oz – it’s called Hungry Jacks and it beats Maccas hands down. But I’d still blow up all of them. There is one place worth visiting and that’s World Burger. Their burgers are about 6 inches high and would feed a family of 4 for a whole day.
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We have some non-chain places (usually pubs) which serve amazing burgers 🙂
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Oooh yeah! Pub burgers or schnitty 😀
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Whew! You had me worried for a bit there. I sure hope the next hero in line was razed to build a KCF. I’m craving some chicken…
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Me too, Kenrucky Freed Chucken gets a free pass…
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Never been in a MacDonalds or a Burger King. I aim to keep it that way. Nice story.
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A nice pub meal is more my thing.
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if that’s called progress, i don’t know, but many climate deniers seem to agree. 🙂
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It “progresses” a few people’s bank balances I suppose.
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My bad… I read that title wrong… I thought it said “Three men and a stump”… guess it was that commercial for “Two Men and a Truck” moving services playing in the background. Great story… I’m sure that Treeman, aka, the son, had quite a few adventures along the way to the “King”.
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Yes, having become so prominent he must have created quite a few waves on his journey 🙂
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What next, KFC, would you believe it?
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They’re all at it (possibly and allegedly).
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I really have no idea which companies you’re talking about. Sad, true bedtime story,
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That’s because I obfuscated them so cleverly 😉
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Poor guy. Too bad the burger joints weren’t bulldozed!
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Like that would ever happen…
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Too bad. We don’t need any more McDoonalds or Buggerr Kings 🙂
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We certainly don’t.
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Oh, burrgerr! Why is it always the good guys who get bulldozered?
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They’re the ones who put themselves in harm’s way 😦
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A sad ending, till the bulldozers have an Ai implant, then they may turn on the anti nature brigade
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Ha, yes, once they begin to think for themselves…
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There’s something about that family … 😉 But, yeah, if there are any other family members left, please do just watch out for Wendeeeee
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That particular chain is about to enter the UK. Yay…
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Oy … 😉 That family needs to move, then .. 😉
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Tree man, now there is a super hero! Nemesis – MacDs!
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Everyone aspires to be Tree Man 🙂
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I like the brisk tone and the mash up between bed-time story and real life ! Good story.
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I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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Ali,
Maybe it’s time for Petrified Tree Man to make an appearance. 🤔
pax,
dora
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I’m sure he’d set them right 🙂
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Hmm… Well disguised names. I’m going to guess at MacFrugal’s and Bugger King.
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That’s the ones!
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It’s a good thing names were changed to make them unrecognizable. 😁
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Indeed, I wouldn’t want to fall foul of any legal personages 🙂
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That’s very noble of him to be sacrificed for the cause. I do love a good KenChuky’s Friday Chicken.
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That KenChuky’s is the best 🙂
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