Luke eyed the sign ahead.
“I won’t be allowed in,” he sighed.
Sarah scrunched her forehead. “Maybe they won’t notice?”
Luke raised an eyebrow. He was 6’8″.
Of course they would notice. It was a stupid thing to say. She blushed. “I’m sorry, Luke. I mean, it’s just so unfair!”
He nodded. Such rules often were. Still many tended to accept, even embrace, ‘patriotic regulations’ … until caprice hit close to home. Or in his case, on the way back to it.
He had pooh-poohed the risk. What folly.
He wouldn’t be allowed into the City. Even though he’d been born and raised and lived there. Had committed no crime. He was banished. They’d expel him if he were still home.
The militia could shoot him on sight. Neighbors would be expected to report his presence. As of that morning, anyone above 6’6″ feet was considered a 4T security risk – Too Tall To Trust.
For Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge
Crikey, that’s worry. Luckily my ‘love interest’ is 6’3″ Phew
Nice one, Na’ama
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I’m so glad he can get in under the wire …
And … oy to capricious regulations that have little to do with anything but division, discrimination, fear-mongering and control.
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Always something
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yep…
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Lucky wench.
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😀
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Not to be deleted by the 4Ts (forties?)
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Hahaha!
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🙂
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😀
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LOL!!!! I hope not!
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Nah. Escaped it
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🙂
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Bad news for tall people everywhere!
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Yeah … some of the beanpoles in my family (and we sprout one or who in every nuclear family …) may not be pleased if this was so …
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I’m the beanpole in my family and it made me quite nervous!
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Fiction … (for now … ) 😉
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Reblogged this on Anita Dawes & Jaye Marie ~ Authors.
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This made me think of my sister’s neighbour, who stands at 6’7″ and cannot fit on some rides at our amusement park as he is too tall and can’t be strapped in properly!
What a sad state of affairs when one is too tall to be accepted in one’s own hometown!
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I have a few beanpoles in my family who face similar ‘issues’ in amusement parks (and ski-resorts, where it is hard to find them long-enough-skis…).
Indeed a VERY sad state of affairs when ANY government decided on some arbitrary rules to bar or ban a whole group of people for things those people cannot control and that have NOTHING to do with morality (ya know, by religion, country of origin, color of skin, gender … or height).
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Nuts, I tell ya! Nuts!
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Yeah. And not our good kind of nutty, either. The NOT GOOD kind of nutty …
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No, not at all
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xoxo
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xoxo
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