Photo prompt: © Dale Rogerson
It was better in the movie.
She’d slipped on the snow and had a wet imprint of her behind on her dress and a freezing spot in her lower back. His shoes got drenched when he’d stepped in a slush puddle, and generated awful squeaky sounds in every step. The benches needed deicing or they risked breaking their necks if they as much as tried to climb them, let alone jump around.
“I am sixteen, going on seventeen, and I’m going back inside,” she declared, teeth chattering.
“I am seventeen going on eighteen, and I’ll beat you to the house…”
For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers
Na'ama Yehuda 
You wench!
Now I have the song stuck in my head!
Love what you did here…
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The blame is all yours! YOU put that earworm in MY ear with that photo! So there! 😉
Glad you liked it!
Here’s a bit of reinforcement (ducking …)
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I can’t even be mad at you as I missed it this year…. 😛
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Yay! She “can’t even be mad at” me! (scheming to think of what else I can do while the ‘can’t be mad at me’ is actively on … ;))
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Don’t push it, lady! 😉
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Tee-hee! 😀
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😉
Tee hee away…
xoxo
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😀
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The outdoors is the reason we have an indoors. I’m with you
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LOL! Yeah! Sitting cozy by the hearth or wrapped in a throw on the couch sounds a whole lot more romantic to me … The movies are fine, but one must not take them too literally … 😉
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Oh, I am so laughing. I wasn’t expecting that!
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🙂 Yay! T’was meant to make people laugh! Mission accomplished! 🙂
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Oh, you can always rely on me to laugh. But I don’t do serious very well. 🙂
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You do you!
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🙂
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Children, they think they are so grown up! Haha. Fun story.
I saw the clip you posted for Dale. Painful, just do it already haha. – I did grow up with Dirty Dancing so that might explain it 😀.
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Haha! Love the movie “Dirty Dancing”!! (and this scene in “Sound of Music” is indeed painful. I wanna yell at them to get on with it and save us from the misery of having to watch this endlessly drawn out song … ;)) LOL!
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Ah, my mum told me in regards to The Sound of Music, not in my house. Haha.
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😀 Yeah, all that whistling and traipsing about in curtains … 😉
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Na’ama Y’karah,
Wouldn’t it be nice if things happened the way they do in the movies? I think they should opt for hot chocolate in front of a roaring fireplace. Now that’s romantic. 😉 Thank you for the ear worm.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Yeah, me agree. A nice cozy fireplace, a soft throw to share, hot cocoa (to share or not to share … ;)), and a warm snuggle. Far superior to jumping on benches in the freezer … 😉
As for the movies — some things are better in the movies, but I find that most things are better in real life … because, well, I like real life better … 🙂
XO
(Re: ear worm — you’re welcome. I’m on Dale’s naughty list, though … ;)).
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Made my laugh–as did your banter with Dale.
We listened to and watched a lot of musicals when our daughters were young. (I’m not a fan of most children’s movies.) This was a favorite scene of my younger daughter when she was in preschool, and we used to listen to it in the car, too.
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Glad it made you laugh — that was certainly the intended reaction … 😉 I like musicals. I even like the Sound of Music, but I can’t say that this particular song was a favorite. I find it a bit draggy, too long, and ‘just get on with it’ too longish … 😉
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No, not my favorite either. But my 3-year-old daughter liked it. 🙂
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It does have a ‘hop-and-skip’ rhythm to it … 😉
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Excellent, a good laugh. My kids are still young enough to want to run out and play in the snow, I dread having to take them out and stand around freezing while they have a brilliant time!
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It was Dale’s amazing photo that immediately made the association for me … 🙂 And, I actually love the snow. I just don’t like the raw cold that often comes before/after it, and I don’t care for the slush/mush that the City becomes … and generally speaking, I’d rather stay warm … 🙂 LOL. Getting old!
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Funny. I briefly considered using the same couple in a scenario, but I’m glad I didn’t. Yours was perfect 🙂
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It would have been nice to see your interpretation, too! 🙂 Thank you for your kind comment!
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Lovely piece, made me chuckle. I hate the snow so my sympathies are very much with both of them.
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I’m so glad you enjoyed it! 🙂 The photo Dale provided for Rochelle was delightful! 🙂 Took me ‘right there’. 🙂
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Funny stuff, Na’ama
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🙂 I’m glad it made you chuckle! 🙂 That photo gave me an immediate association to the song … and the rest is FF history … 😉
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Nope, life ain’t like the movies. Usually for the best!
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Indeed! I prefer life to heavily edited scripts and role play anyway! 😉
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Snow looks lovely, and is good for skiing on; other than that, it sucks! As it’s the festive season, I’ll settle for a sofa, a roaring log fire, a good book (for example, an anthology of flash fiction by Na’ama Yehuda) and a glass of something agreeable.
You gave us a very believable account of the young people’s encounter and their response. Nicely done!
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Yeah, I’m with ya on the fireplace, couch, and I’m CERTAINLY up for good reads (an am partial to anyone doing a the book-by-me recommendation … :)). There are four of actual books by me out there (not anthology of flash-fiction, though … a bit more involved than that … Dale might attest … and some others here who’d read one or more of them). But yeah, FAR better than freezing in the wet and damp outdoors … 😉
Easy choice, that! 😉
Thank you for the kind and generous comment! Na’ama
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Dancing in the snow is never a good thing. I would have ended up on my behind as well. A very creative story. I love it!
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Yay that you loved it, Brenda! I was a fun one that kind of wrote itself. … Also, yeah, dancing in the snow is good for snowflakes. The real ones. And dogs. Well, some dogs. 😀
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It’s always better in the movies! I for one hate playing in the snow! Happy to stay indoors and look at it through the window!
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🙂 You and me both … 😀
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john legend’s baby, it’s cold outside would work too in this case. happy holidays.
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Yep, would certainly work well with this story, too! 🙂 Happy Holidays to you, too!
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