Morning all. I hope you are doing well as we enter the middle of the week. As always I feel like I haven’t done enough and feel like the weekend is looming. Every Wednesday I feel like my to do lists get longer and longer. It is always fine once Thursday arrives, but Wednesday always feels like a crush. So no dawdling this morning. Let’s just jump into the morning prompt.
Okay this one has potential. Not sure where it is going, but it has potential.
Wednesday, November 2nd: How do you feel about giraffes?
“How do you feel about giraffes?” he asked. Anna looked up from her account book.
“Giraffes?” Numbers still danced in front of her eyes. She tried blinking them away.
David waved a brochure in her direction. “Yeah it says here they are a big attraction the whole family will love. We could go see them.”
Anna lifted a hand and rubbed her temple. “You mean like a trip to the zoo?”
“Zoos are cruel and inhumane,” David said. “You saw the movie. This is a Safari park.”
“What movie?” Anna asked.
“You know the one where they are always trying to escape. “
“Eascape?”
“You know, with the penguins and the evil octopus.”
Anna dropped her hand and looked at David. “I hate that I have to say this but you do klnow that animated films are not the same as documentaries?”
“I know, I know,” he said. “But the point is we could go to this safari park. With my family.”
“To see the giraffes, like for an afternoon off?”
Anna began to warm to the idea. How long had it been since she had an afternoon off. She envisioned a safari park,. No doubt there would be a car, acres of land and since David and the rest of his family would be so focused on the animals it would give her some relief. After all they couldn’t do anything stupid if they were focused on the giraffes.
“Is the park near the zoo or outside of town?” she asked.
“It’s not local,” he said. “We’d have to fly there it would ba a grand adventure, two maybe even three weeks.”
David unfolded the brochure and studied the pictures. His face was lit with excitement and his eyes were aglow with the thought of a new adventure. As always, she felt like the lowest of the low as she had to bring him back to reality.
“David, we can’t go somewhere for two or three weeks,” Anna told him. She tried to keep the judgement out of her voice, to keep her tone neutral. Still his face fell as he looked up from the brochure. He looked at her like a kid who had just dropped his ice cream cone into the dirt.
“But why not?” He asked.
“If we leave then who will run the company?” she told him. She still tried to keep it gentle.
“Oh,” David said. He nodded slowly. “I get it. So you’ll have to stay while the rest of us go. You can keep an eye on things right?”
“David,” Anna said. She could feel the edges of her temper fraying but still tried to hold herself in check. “What will you use for money?”
“We have credit cards,” he replied. He shook his head. “You really are clueless sometimes.
“David those cards are currently maxxed out,” Anna said.
He shrugged. “Then we’ll just borrow money from the company.”
“You and your family borrowing money from the company is causing problems for the company,” she told him
“It’s a family company, therefore it supports the family.” He looked at her and shook his head slowly. “I know you didn’t grow up with a big family company able to take care of all your expenses, but that is just the way it is.”
“No David it isn’t,” Anna said.
Ten til Midnight 