“This was my first accident,” Marlise said with laughter in her voice.
Grandma didn’t find it funny at all.
“What happened?” she wanted to know.
“It wasn’t my fault. They will come by tomorrow and fix the damage.”
“They?”
“Yes, the guys from the other car.”
“Do you know them?”
“No, but they looked honest.”
“And you believed them?”
“Of course I did. Why wouldn’t I?”
Grandma shook her head in disbelieve.
The next day a tow truck showed up and picked up the car. A few days later it looked brand-new.
Grandma didn’t say much, but she looked pleased.
Word count: 100
I will not openly admit that this story happened almost the way I described it because it would make me sound like a fool. Perhaps the car was older, and they didn’t come with a tow truck but repaired the vehicle in our barn. But as I said, would never admit it.
Friday Fictioneers are held by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Give it a try. It’s fascinating how much we can tell with just 100 words.
I like a story where trust and open-heartedness is rewarded. Although even I wouldn’t have let them tow the car away. Now, let them fix it in my barn? That sounds totally reasonable. 🙂
See, that’s what I thought too. 🙂
Wise to be suspicious and careful. They were lucky this time.
Loved the tone of this story and it’s positive POV.
Great story, Bridget. The world is so full of suspicion and distrust. It’s nice to see the other side.
I try to stay positive but it’s not easy. Every day when I open the news I feel it is getting worse.
I read all the comments and now I have forgotten my comment. It was something along the lines of ?
🙂
I can’t believe they brought the car back. A happy ending 🙂
Dear Bridget,
I won’t repeat this to a soul. Your secret’s safe with me. 😉 It makes me smile to know this is based on fact and that there really are good people in the world. Good one.
Shalom,
Rochelle
In times like this we need to be reminded that there is so much good out there.
this is wonderful Bridget!
Interesting what surfaces back to the top with blogging.
Oh Bridget! You are funny! Do you ever consider it a miracle you made it to adulthood? 😉
I trying to answer this since yesterday in the evening. Every time when I think tried it ended up being a novel and not a comment.
I will answer that later
I find it a bit sad that we always expect that people always will be doing the worst. I know so many stories of people who got their wallets back for instance… and I know i would do the right thing
You are spot on Bjoern. I couldn’t agree more. I am one of the people who got their wallet back once an nothing was missing.
We won’t tell a soul… but, I like to believe there are still good people out there and that when our gut tells us they are honest, we are right.
Thank you for not telling. 🙂 I believe there are many good people out there, we just live in a time where we focus on the bad more than we should.
Sadly, it is…
It’s nice to know there are people out there who will do the decent thing.
Nice story. There are still honest good people all over the world. Glad you ran into a couple of them. Oh, and I won’t tell anyone that, except for a few details, the story is true. 🙂
We were young and times were different back then. Perhaps I trusted because it felt right. I learned to distrust later .
I should write the real story down even though it will make me look stupid.
You already prepared us. And has anyone actually made it through the teens without doing stupid things? Not me and more than once!
Admit nothing!
your secret is safe with us. don’t admit it
Never 🙂
Glad they were honest. Pretty rare these days.
That’s true, but it’s still there.
I love the disclaimer 😉
Well… 🙂
Not that I’m saying I think that you did something similar once, just… well… 😉
Laughter here