Everybody wants to change everything. It’s part of our nature. Well, most people’s nature. Some people, though, go to extremes with it. Others are just able to chill.
Each week Rochelle Wisoff-Fields posts a pic to write a 100 word story about.
This week it’s a story about love and tolerance and personal development (ha):
© Dee Lovering
A Long History
“Doris, we’re on vacation.”
Doris sized up every place they went for real estate development.
“I’d fill in the water, and open a golf course or a upscale mall.”
“Doris, chill.”
“I will not, Frank, not while there are still possibilities to increase our revenue stream.”
“But we’re on vacation.”
“One has to always be on the lookout.”
“But this is an historical site. Maybe they want to keep it just as it is.”
“They don’t know what they want unless we tell them.”
“Cut it out, Doris. You’re not even employed.”
“Frank, have I told you lately I don’t like you?”
Randy Mazie
The Writer's Village 
I can see how the feeling might be reciprocal. 😦 Nicely done.
Actually, I think they’re deeply in love. Just no one has told them that they are, yet.
This is fun – the dialogue reads well and reveals the characters and their relationship… and I liked Doris’s entrepreneurship 🙂 nicely done.
Doris asked me to ask you if you know of any undeveloped areas where you are…
Have her people call my people.
😉
big 😉
Beautifully written – not sure how the good folk of Barcelona would think about her scheme!
Rosey Pinkerton
She has some thoughts about Mauna Kea, too!
Doris is a force! Great dialog, I enjoyed it.
Force or farce? Was that a typo?
Grand ideas. Nice dialogue.
Doris thinks so…
Really energetic dialogue.
They are one energetic couple.
Oops. A grand vacation gone very very wrong. Delightful.
You think so?
i think they live like this all the time.
Delicious take on the challenge! I know people like this–what they have in front of them is never good enough. They always must tweak it, make it different (supposedly better). You captured that essence perfectly! 😉
Thank you. You have such good judgment. I would never tweak a word of what you just wrote. I couldn’t have been written it better.
Doris, shut up. I’m reading. No, Doris, she doesn’t know of any undeveloped property near her.
Now what were you saying, Lorna? Could you repeat that?
Doris needs a hobby! 😉 Thanks for visiting. 🙂
Good dialog. Do either of them like the other?
Tracey
Like such an arbitrary word…
Doesn’t sound like she is a big loss… this is a great take on the prompt, I know people like this.
it’s great listing to them, isn’t it?
Just not for very long, if they go on and on.
Very funny and “They don’t know what they want unless we tell them” is a great line. This post ought to get you girls for sure!
I think that’s why a lot of readers (read that female) are saying they don’t like her. But, ya know, i didn’t intend for that to be a statement about Women about lording it over Mankind, I really meant it as a statement about capitalistic (or even Man’s) insensitivity and proclivity to over-development. Do we really need one more mall or golf course? Leave it alone already. My stories usually have the man in this position. I thought it was time to place the woman in that position.
Dear Randy,
I’m not sure I like Doris very much. 😉 I think she needs to stop and smell the roses without assessing their value. Good dialogue.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Doris says, Harumphf!
Roses need to be pruned back to hold their beauty each year. Doris says she wants a steady supply of flowers. That, she says, is real value. Everything else is just fluff.
She represents a 1% solution dominating the rest of the world – even if she is unemployed at the moment – she says unemployment is a temporary setback caused by her husband’s over-regulation.
I wonder if Frank has told Doris how much he doesn’t like her. I think this has to become murder mystery at some point.
Ha. Murder in Barcelona… Agatha Christie, move over.
Indeed!
Aaahh marriage. Good times!
Aaahh marriage. What a wild ride.
Funny stuff, Randy. If she keeps this up, either he or she is going to end up buried in that golf course. He better help her find a job quick so she can be too tired to think up all those schemes, just like most people. 😀 — Suzanne
I like how you think.
Get her a job – that’ll keep her occupied.
Classic line – “They don’t know what they want unless we tell them” 🙂
I admire Doris’ enthusiasm, and well done to Frank for putting up with it!
Isn’t it a great line?
Don’t we just hear that all the time from those who have power to make decisions about others and for others – as if “the others” can not decide for themselves – or, still worse, deny “them” any voice at all.
it looks like frank hasn’t learned those magic words yet. it’s “yes, dear.” end of discussion. 🙂
Frank said to tell you, “You’re right, dear.”
Ah, some people will always be working the money angle!
Very realistic dialogue in this story–opposites attract!
I enjoyed putting the woman in this position this week.
Glad to hear from you, Jan, as always.
Randy
Great dialogue. They sound like a long married couple and the story is carried along nicely.
Thank you, Irene.
Hope Doris never finds the capital to put her ideas into practice. certainly not around here.
What do you have against the golf course or an upscale mall. Are you anti-American? What’s with you, buddy?
I think Doris might have overestimated her own lure. There is definitely a development that might improve it for Frank.
Huh?
I like the way you write, nice story. And your response to comments, hilarious.
I like your judgment, your honesty and candor – and I think i like you!
By the way, Doris says, Hi – but stay away from Frank, please.
Randy
Ok warning heeded!
Some people just can’t turn it of for vacation…
And some don’t appreciate historical buildings!
Well done!
You are so right. Some people just can’t it turn it off and appreciate.
And other people seem to turn it off so much that they still may not appreciate.
There’s a line there somehwere.
Thanks,
Randy
Tsk. Way to burst her bubble. Just let her try to get financing. 🙂
we just let her spin…
Doris sounds like one of the developers our city council is allowing to take over our city. She’s probably never finished decorating the house either, right? This was amusing…
Ellespeth
You got her pegged well.
Now as to you city council, time to get out some new candidates and the vote…
but first ask to see the council persons’ campaign donations and check the budget for decorating.
Randy
Not sure this relationship is going to last much longer… wow, I’d want to get out of this vacation as soon as possible!
Oh great job. So focused in the future can’t enjoy the now. Theres a lesson in there!