Stream of Consciousness Saturday – Prompt “To Me”

~ John W. Howell

A picture of a string with drops of water- the logo for SoCS

The coffee is ready in record time, which just says to me, “We love you, boss.” After a sip of the precious fluid, the thought again turns to the alarm clock. Although experience is being gained on each trip to maintain control, it seems to me that staying within a specific boundary is a good idea.

Therefore, the clock is set to December 8th, 1923. One hundred years ago. The time is set for two hours, and the plunger is pulled. Immediately, the scene changes, and My location is Madison Square Garden. There are a lot of people in the garden cheering for men on bicycles.

When questioned, the guy next to me informs me that this is the finish of the annual December Six-day race. He tells me there are fourteen thousand people in attendance.

He also says Ernest Kockler of Chicago and Percy Lawrence of San Francisco, comprising the American team, were the winners of the annual race. He fascinated me with what seemed to me to be a professional play-by-play recap of the events. He breathlessly recapped that the American riders, hanging tenaciously to the precious lap that they gained during one of the jams early in the week, finished the grind with a total mileage of 2,519 miles and 8 laps, and their one-lap margin was sufficient to give them the honors.

Thanking him for the information, the bell clanging means my time is up here in New York. In an instant, the familiar surroundings of the home told me the adventure is over. My phone buzzes, and a text arrives from Linda Hill. It reads.

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “to me.” Find a way to use the phrase “to me” in your post. Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy! To see what other bloggers have done with this prompt, visit Linda’s post. Here is the link: https://lindaghill.com/2023/12/08/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-dec-9-2023/

To Me by John W. Howell © 2023

“To me, this alarm thing needs to be ramped up.”

“What do you mean.”

“You’re stuck in going back 100 years.”

“Yeah, like I explained so as not to run into trouble.”

“Come on. There are more interesting things to see other than a bunch of sweaty jocks on bikes.”

“I suppose you are right.”

“Darned right, I’m right.”

“I  guess we could look up an event we wanted to visit.”

“Yeah, Like the ending of prohibition or Crusades. Anything but the 1920s.”

“Okay, next week we’ll try it.”

“Great. Let’s go celebrate.”

“Unlike every week.”

“Oh, come on. You know what I mean.”

“Did you order Uber?”

“He’s right over there.”

“I don’t see him.”

“That orange thing blowing leaves.”

Photo by Dan Antion

 

“You gotta be kidding.”

“What’s the matter?”

“Riding a blower to the pub?”

“Heavy discount.”

“And high visibility, let alone where to sit.”

“We stand behind the operator.”

“It looks to me like we might be better off walking.”

“That is another thing.”

“What.”

“We have to bag the leaves.”

“Sometimes I wonder about you.”

“It’s good exercise. Here’s your rake and gloves.”

“I can’t wait to see us on the ride home.”

 

 

85 thoughts on “Stream of Consciousness Saturday – Prompt “To Me””

  2. LOL!! That might be a hilarious ride on the way back.
    Wouldn’t it be neat to be able to time travel and not get into trouble!

    Lately, I’ve been thinking that all the raking I’ve been doing is conditioning for shoveling snow so, I’m not complaining about it…too much. 🍁🍁🍁

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  3. You piqued my interest with this one, John. I had never heard of the Six Day races. Our daughter and I rode in two Five-Borough races, but those were about 36 miles through the boroughs in NY, but I’d never heard of anything like this.

    Great job with the prompt. I’m with Liz, though when it comes to caution.

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  11. Without even seeing who took the photo, my immediate thought was, “Dan would like this picture.” Heck, Dan took this picture! I love the 1920’s–all those cute flapper dresses.

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  21. Two men riding inside for 14 days. I hope they had decent bicycle seats in those days. I get sore just reading about them. Speaking of seats, that leaf blower ride is going to vibrate a lot…

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  25. Ah! So, you’re riding rakes on the way home?
    How witchy of you.
    Well, goes with Voodoo.
    Umm, so the clock deal… think you’ll be hitting the early 1800’s?
    Now that you’re time traveling; there’s so many places to go, so much to do.
    What about that time continuum thing?
    Be careful!!!
    🕕⏳ 🕝⌛️ 🕤⏳ 🕘⌛️

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        2. Interesting.
          At first glance I had not connected this to the time continuum. A second later I knew you were talking about a tear in the continuum.
          I first read “A tear cannot be repaired.” as in shed a tear…to cry… 😢
          So I thought how poignant.
          Accidental on your part and on mine, but I think it’s a message from inner space.
          🤔X 😵X 😲X 🤔X

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  27. I’ve no trouble with the 100-year thing – I love how you are searching for what happened on that date. That said, if you start feeling the hang of this time travel, well the world is your oyster!
    As for you friend… really? His options for Uber are insane. He should always be paying the VooDoo!

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