Stream of Consciousness Saturday

~ John W. Howell

 

This is in response to the Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt using the word or thought of two. The prompt and rules can be found at: http://lindaghill.wordpress.com/2014/08/08/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-august-914/

A Couple by John W. Howell © 2014

“Give me a couple of those donuts.”

“A couple? Do you mean two?”

“Yeah, I mean two. What do you think a couple is?”

“Well, where I come from a couple could be four or more.”

“How’s that?”

“You got mom and dad and the young ens. We say that’s a couple.”

“Okay, but you don’t say a couple of donuts is more than two.”

“You do if they are on sale like buy two get one free. Then a couple is three.”

“Okay, so maybe I’m pretty dumb. I wouldn’t call a couple of donuts three even if the one was free.”

“You are not in the donut business.”

“And I’m so glad I’m not.”

“Here’s your donuts. That’ll be a couple of dollars.”

“A couple as in two or three?”

“Surprise me.”

 

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I have been working in business for over forty years and now have the time to work in special areas of interest. My passion has always been to create compelling stories of fiction. I have authored six novels and am working on my Seventh. The first novel is still in manuscript form and being utilized as a door stop in the laundry room. The second is a contemporary fiction novel of 89,000 words and is complete and I am currently seeking a publisher. I also write poetry but have not had the guts to share any with anyone. The one time I read a piece to a person their only comment was, “it doesn’t rhyme.” I will continue to write and hopefully my blog, Fiction Favorites at www.johnwhowell.com will provide some entertainment and an interesting thought or two. I live in the Austin area with my wife Molly and an assortment of loving pets.

21 thoughts on “Stream of Consciousness Saturday”

  4. Funny I would see this piece first thing. I am on a quest to find the new Dunkin Donut for Peyton. He loves doughnuts/donuts. So the question is do I get a couple or a few? For me – I get coffee:)

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  5. Haha… I am not sure if I would be pissed mad at the ‘couple expert’ for his ironic response after the lecture on what ‘couple’ means. Love the twist, made me break out in laughter.

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  7. Loved it. My very proper Aunt corrected my grammar all the time. We didn’t cut the grass, we mowed the lawn…It wasn’t cheap, it was more affordable…stuff like that. She said a couple was two, a few was three or four and five or more was several.

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  8. “You got mom and dad and the young ens. We say that’s a couple.” Wouldn’t that be two couples? The parents (one couple) with a couple of kids.

    Funny and entertaining.

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  11. That’s why “it’ll just take a couple minutes” can mean anywhere from two minutes to two hours! Great post! And if a “couple donuts” means 3, who am I to argue with that? Obviously the third one has no calories, so why not 😉

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  13. For some reason, I am craving donuts now. Luckily, there aren’t too many sources for such a thing in Taiwan. And it’s way too hot and humid to make them myself. I guess I’ll wait until November. haha Nice post on the two thing. 🙂

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