Tuesday – Anything Possible – Finger Point Prompt – Claims

~ John W. Howell

The idea of a finger-point prompt is to open a book at a random place and, without looking, point to the page. The word or words closest to the pointing finger becomes the prompt. For example, today, I opened The Last Drive to page 151. The word closest to the pointing finger is “claims.”

Claims by John W. Howell © 2023

“Her father was a no count. Claims he has a bad back.”

“What are you doing?”

“Singing a song.”

“I can’t get the tune, but the words sound familiar.”

“Polk Salad, Annie.”

“Could have fooled me. I thought you were singing “Ring of Fire.”

“The words don’t match.”

“Well, your tune is one I never heard connected to the song.”

“I guess I have a tin ear.”

“The man claims to cover his music ineptitude.”

“By the way. I was very happy here by myself.”

“I’ll bet. I just came from the insurance office.”

“What were you doing there?”

“Had a couple of claims to sign.”

“What kind of claims?”

“Remenber that guy who backed into my car.”

“Yeah. That is one claim.”

“The guy behind me had damage when my car hit his.”

“Oh. I didn’t know. Makes sense there would be two claims.”

“Three.”

“Three? How.”

“The guy behind the guy behind me.”

“You are making my head hurt. Is everything okay?”

“Yup. Everyone is happy.”

“That’s good. Well, I’m off to get lunch.”

“Oh yeah? Where you going?”

“To the clam shack to stake my claims on some clams.”

“”I think we are done here.”

“I hope.”

61 thoughts on “Tuesday – Anything Possible – Finger Point Prompt – Claims”

  9. I had to reread the clam claim a couple of time to make sure I was reading that right. 😂 That was a head spinner of a tale!

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  14. Good one, Johan 🙂 That insurance claim sounds like the one my husband did when a deer ran into him and two other cars behind him.

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  24. I so enjoy point-finger prompts, John. Yours was the best icing on that cake, though. Fun, I claim, and don’t ever let anyone clam you up! (umm, perhaps that doesn’t work, but it’s the POINT that counts. 🙂

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