Tired of Wheeler-Dealers? Be Patient. Payoff$ are Not Always Unheard Of

“It’s the wheel thing!” remarked well-wisher and fellow inventor John “Mr. Coca-Cola” Pemberton, of his casual acquaintance’s newfangled contraption, after which he immediately staked his claim on the catchy slogan.

WELCOME TO the happily-hosted-by-Grandma’s-Goulash Succinctly Yours, a perfectly wonderful meme that picks up where our ♥dearly♥ departed Microfiction Monday left off by asking the burning question:

How low can you go?

THE GIST: Use the photo provided by GG as inspiration for a story of 140 characters or 140 words. (It doesn’t have to be exactly 140, just not more.) Oh?! *nods an impressed head* You want an even BIGGER challenge?! Then incorporate the word of the week into your flash tale. This Monday's assignment is "hibernate," which I chose to skip, since that smitch of the game is optional. <-–Whew! and thank God, because I DON'T need that kind o' preshah!

HERE’S
January 30th’s picture
AND my story:

It was Alan Schwinn’s 25th birthday and his patience was dangerously thin. Seventeen years ago to the day, a young and longing Al had followed his $tingy Uncle Ignaz’ Do-It-Yourself Two-Wheeler "kit" advice: after B-day gifting his nephew with a couple of beyond-spent inner tubes, “Farmer” Ig instructed him to “Pflant sem unter sie olt zycamore, owt back. You, too, can grow your own!” Yep, nigh on twenty years later, the bike still wasn’t ready for harvest. Not to worry, though. A more resourceful than spiteful Alan went on to invent the stationary bicycle, making million$! “Now whoze eatink meine stay-in-one-place dust, Onkel Ignaz?!” snarked BIG Al. --108 WORDS

HM.

A SparkleFarkled Afterthought:

Allowing someone to pull your chain
is lucrative only if it’s of

the bicycle variety.

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NOT me.

BOO HOO DEE hoo hoo, because I never did get that Schwinn I wanted for Christmas. And guess what, Momsy? Santa's not to blame, like you said. Aw, it's okay, though. *shakes free of unattractive whinies* No hard feelings, since that aquamarine bicycle (<–the very colour of

the best Little Mermaid,

whom I had the distinct pleasure of first meeting on my View-Master® in 1958. And, yeah, that special blue colour-selection part was planned.) I then $aved up for, suited me better anyhow. And I still have "her," can you believe it?! Uh-huh. She remains forever embellished with my sometimes-name plated to her, too.

ONE WORD:

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Tired of this entry? Me, too-ly,
SparkleFarkle~~~~~*

Rest in peace, my Mollo and Zuzie

A BIG P.S.
Don’t forget the

SAG Awards tonight!
(Sunday, January 29, 2012–>18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, Live on TNT at 8 p.m. ET and 5 p.m. PT)

IMAGE SOURCES
“Straight out of the Schwinn family album” snapshot first downloaded at Schwinn Cruisers
Stationary apparatus borrowed from Weight Loss-O-Rama
Chain, Chain, Chain = 5 Recipes for Life
Girl with a Christmas Schwinn courtesy of iCollect247 View-Master® reel Little Mermaid: source appears to have skipped the country. Huffy decal on loan from the eBay library
SAG Award guy borrowed from Bump Shack