Lina waited patiently in the queue.
“Ten already ahead of me… I hope it doesn’t finish by the time I reach.”
With each person who walked back past her, her anxiety grew.
When she reached, and asked for it, she was happy it was in stock.
She remembered the time she had first experienced it five years back.
She had saved enough to buy one every day. And she did exactly that.
“Twenty rupees, little girl,” said the ice-cream vendor, breaking her thoughts.
She wished she knew then what she knew now.
That ice-cream wouldn’t stay the same price always.
This is a Drabble, which is a form of microfiction that is hundred words in length.
This post is shared with and inspired by the prompt at Write Tribe 100 Words on Saturday. The prompt was “s/he wished s/he knew then what s/he knew now”.
(20th May 2014)
Vinay Leo R.
Poetry & writing to me are to me, a breath of fresh air in a life that is sometimes covered by the smoke of sorrow or self doubt. They also become the sweets I share to celebrate when life offers me a reason to. But most of all, they are to me, my life. For each word I write is a piece of my heart, a thought that just had to find its way into the world.
Darn inflation. Yes I remember those days when my quarter allowance could be stretched over a few days. Now a quarter doesn’t even make a decent down payment.
Lee
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Haha 🙂 Yeah Lee. I remember those days too. 1 rupee lollies and kulfis. Now it’s very rare that you get for less than 10 rupees. 🙁 Sigh. Inflation!
Five years!!! Too much of wait.. harsh reality indeed…
Er, that got lost in translation Archana 🙂 The girl didn’t wait 5 years for the ice-cream. The price inflated so much. 😛
we will never know the truth.. maybe there are unfortunate s…
Maybe there are… maybe there are…
The bitter truth. We need to factor in inflation even while planning for the simplest pleasures.
Yeah. Rising costs everywhere, Jb. Even for the smallest of things.
Yeah, if only we knew then what our habits would cost us years later… Stopping by for the first time..nice one Vinay 🙂
Maybe 🙂 but at that age, I think we’d still go ahead and spend. Welcome to my blog, Seeta.
oh noo.. someone lend her some money for that ice creammmmmm
No worries, Biks! I lent her some 😀
Excellentttttttttttttttttttt…. see a person with a good heart 🙂
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Haa.. next time she needs fb updates with the vendors.. 🙂 loved it.. I wish she gets one..
I hope she gets an ice-cream too. Priya 🙂 But maybe not the FB updates. Childhood is better spent with novels and friends, than social networks. 😀
Oh this was such a cute take!!
Thanks, Shailaja 🙂
How sweet this is 😛 As sweet as an icecream 😀
Yeah 😉 So many sour takes to this, including my first attempt. Thought I’d give it a sweet twist, Sree 😀 Thanks!
O that’s a good one. Innocent yet a bit sad….I hope the vendor did give her a big discount. 🙂
That would be one kind vendor then, Beloo. Don’t see such people these days 🙁
Oh! That’s so sad. How I wished the vendor gave her just for the love of the child for the ice cream. By the way, been through that in school:)
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I know. Been through that before too, Vishal 😀
Oh so sad! It would have broken the little girl’s heart 🙁
I know. It would have, Swarasa!