Written as part of a challenge called Sunday Photo Fiction, details at https://sundayphotofictioner.wordpress.com/2016/06/26/sunday-photo-fiction-june-26th-2016/
“George! The Homeowners Association won’t let us keep a catapult in the front yard! I can’t believe you found it! And you just bring it home. You don’t ask. You show up with a pickup drags it behind.” Irene is red with anger.
“I couldn’t get the Scorpion! But it’s a historical artifact. You can’t hold it against us. We are Italian and it’s a Roman catapult. Heritage item. HOA rules can’t discriminate. It’s only fair.” George defends his purchase
“The Murphy’s are just particular. He’s a member of the HOA. You can’t think this week go unnoticed.” Irene is embarrassed at the thought of what they will think.
“Relax Irene. I have to replace the basket with waxed leather. Then it can laugh fifty pounds of tar and sawdust up to one thousand feet. But I’ll have to play with the adjustment in tension line. It will throw a pumpkin about a third of a mile! It so cool! You’ll love it once once working. ” George walks away
describing his vision.
“No! It’s not staying. You have to take it back. George! George! Do you hear me?!” She tries to make her point.
“No truck to take it back with. I had to pay to get delivery. We’ll see what HOA says first.” George is already going out to play with the new toy.
The crazy person, of course, is ill equipped to know he’s crazy anyway.
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Maybe you could pass it off as a way to fertilize everybody’s lawns at the same time. Sell tickets for fertilizing fees. Who knows? You might find another one some day and be able to double your money when others see what a good fertilizer this machine is.
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Now were talking! Environmentally responsible fertilizer without the use of Carbon based fuel. If you used organic fertilizer, you slap a giant green organic sticker on the front! Boom! Maybe sound of raining pellet… this could work 🤔
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I hear the money coming down the road! 😀
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Most great invention were stolen ideas reassembled from parts. So it would fit in well
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“I’d love to have a catapult, but no punkin chuckin’, ” she laughed, “Great story.”
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It would be fun up until you actually had to load the thing up. But I guess they had underlings that did that. And some haughty person pulled the level to destroy whatever it was pointed at.
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“There is this insane man on television who tries out all sorts of medieval weaponry,” she replied. “His show on catapults was amazing.”
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Actually he is quite rational, it’s tgev rest of what’s on the TV that is the issue😉
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“Could be,” she pondered.
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Very Funny. It’s cool to own one, but it would cost you either jail time, or lots of money for all the damage it could cause.
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I guess it would be hard to say it was an accident if you flung burning tar on someone’s house. 😉
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Hahahaha! I think I would feel the same way as Irene.
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My wife would not go for the catapult either. She would have some reason lille is too big or it’s ugly. Then be the first one to say why don’t you take out those people across the street…what’s the sense of having it if you never use the thing!
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Hahahaha! Use it to take out the neighbors across the street! LOL! Do ya’ll have problems with those neighbors?
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Minor stuff there are hundreds of feet away. Mostly they trap animals or come over to our side of the street to dump things. They avoid or yard after I returned dine things the next day with a note
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I don’t blame you for returning those things and with a note! How rude!
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Since we are on the edge of the “country”, people like to dump on land that isn’t theirs. Since our yard is kept fairly well, we don’t have problem.
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That’s great! Now, since you said something to your neighbor, you don’t have a problem with them anymore either. Dumping stuff other than in the landfill is just awful!
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Noone wants to pay for a dumpster or the extra fees to have it hauled off. I don’t know why these people think the world is their trash can
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Disgusting!!
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Haha! Fun read! 😄
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If you took it ask the Homeowners Association people the rest would probably let you keep it too.
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Haha. Very funny. He shows up with a canapult. I do t think the HOA is going to be impressed. I honk like Irene, they’d be a bit scared of George’s new toy. It would be cool to have because of its historic value, but using it could cause real damage lol.
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Only if he can figure out how to aim it. The gem castles with these babies. A condo would be no problem. 😎
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