CCC #68
“This won’t do,” Marc shook his hard-hatted head and lifted the dreaded red marker to the clipboard.
Nicholas scratched under his own protective gear in effort to control his irritation. Marc’s been insufferable ever since he’d been promoted, parading with his supervisor’s paraphernalia as if it made him a demigod. For the millionth time, Nicholas wondered whether Bob The Builder — their blue coveralls donning boss — had assigned him to Marc’s team just to get back at him for the moniker. As if it was Nicholas’s fault that the man fit the cartoon character to a T.
“How come not?” he managed when the silence lingered.
“The arrow,” Marc pointed the board across the water.
“What about the arrow?!” Nicholas snarled. He almost fell, painting the darn thing while standing in a dingy.
“Pointing the wrong way,” Marc smirked in evident satisfaction. “Won’t do to go against the flow, you know.”
For Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge #68
Na'ama Yehuda 
I love that you focused on the red arrow, Na’ama! this was great…. Bob the Builder… oy… the hours spent “watching” this with my boys..
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Ah, it was the first thing that caught my eye – that and the current appearing to go in the opposite direction. I don’t know if this is a tidal channel like we have here in the East River (which is really part of the Atlantic Ocean, but sneaking between Brooklyn/Queens and Manhattan), where the water can go in one or other direction depending on the tides (makes it a tricky place for boating, for sure, and why ships always need a pilot in the NY Harbor). In any event, that’s what my eye saw and that’s what I had to write about … As for poor Bob … 😉 Yeah, I know… Do you remember Barney the Purple Dinosaur with the “I love you, you love me, we’re a happy family….” (I’m ducking just in case I ear-wormed you). 😉
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Very cool (that you noticed all that)
And aaarrrgghh!!! How dare you! Between Barney and the Teletubbies…
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Sheesh, I didn’t have the Teletubbies squeaky Jibberish in my mind for a long time now … Now … well … yeah …. Gee, thanks! 😉
I guess we’re even, eh? 😉
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I think so… Tinky Winky! Dipsy! Laa Laa! Po!
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Oy vey…😁
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Interesting, the things that caught your eye in this photo. Yes, it is a tidal channel, so the flow goes both ways. And in honesty I don’t know why the red arrow, for this isn’t the channel the shipping uses.
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My eye is known to catch odd things … sometimes it works, sometimes I keep my mouth shut (or not … ;)) – I thought it was a tidal channel!!! As for the arrow, maybe it is for any boats who are docking by the pilings, to know that they should keep to the left? Or, who knows … 🙂
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It’s not for mooring. There’s a large dolphin upriver from here, but otherwise no mooring allowed for quite a distance. It might be to direct *smaller* boats… eg Broads’ cruisers who come through here and then must veer sharply to port to swing into the River Bure which joins the Yare just beyond the bridge.
Or maybe it’s just to get a discussion going amongst those who notice it!!! 🙂
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Ah! I’m all for the discussion option! 🙂
Where do I sign up for the arrow-discussion-group? 😉
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When I find out I’ll let you know 🙂 🙂 🙂
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🙂 LOL
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Brilliant focus. Fine telling too. I really enjoyed this.
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Yay Violet! Thank you for reading and commenting and I’m so glad you’ve enjoyed this! 🙂 Most gratifying to know!
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I think the arrow is just a warning to get into the channel. The real danger is what’s happening to their friendship. It’s becoming a hostile working environment.
Fun take. There squabbling seemed realistic.
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Yeah, I think you are right about the unsustainable undercurrents in their working environment …
As for the arrow, as long as it does what it was meant to do … 🙂
Thank you for reading and commenting! 🙂
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