The Friday Fictioneer Challenge: Write a 100-word story based on the photo.
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Photo copyright Sean Fallon
Everything In Its Place
“Why are you saving those? Didn’t you replace them because they were dead?”
“They still have a little power left. Maybe they will be good for something else.”
“Stop! Don’t put them back in the container with the new ones. That’s not where they belong.”
“I’m not getting rid of them!”
Susie sighed, knowing she could never convince Don to get rid of the dead batteries. She decided on the next best thing: a place of their own. She gave him a jar to store the batteries in and let him fill it to his heart’s content. Everyone was happy.
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To read other Friday Fictioneer stories based on this photo, select the smiley blue frog.
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Note: I’d like to say that this is fiction, but at my house, this is a true story. I didn’t think about the jar idea until seeing the photo prompt, so now it’s on my shopping list. Everyone will be happy!
It's a long story ... 
Oh we have a drawer of ‘might not be quite dead’ ones!
So it’s not just at my house? Interesting . . .
It’s a man thing I think!
Yeah, we have ours right next to the jar of a thousand drawer pulls.
Sounds like an episode of Hoarders 😀
Very good solution to the problem. Probably the most realistic back story to the jar of batteries.
O it’s so hard to get rid of things. It’s certainly a man thing, I am now recording my writing on line.
Words retain their value even when re-used, taken out of one story and put into another. Batteries, not so much. Keep recording.
So true! Good story. This is the first prompt picture that gave me an idea, so I wrote it and put it up on the frog-link. Only took me about twenty minutes to get the story right, but took three hours to post it on the inlinkz, because first I had to post it on my blog [with picture copyright Sean Fallon], then try to post it on the frog-link which for some reason I had trouble with. And then when I tried to put the prompt picture as a thumbnail, it kept saying it was too big and I couldn’t get the photo to load on my program so I could make a smaller version. Gah. I hope it goes easier next time. Anyway, it’s on my blog if you want to check it out.
While cleaning out the drawers at our elderly neighbors house my mother found a box labeled “Pieces of Thread too Short to Use.”
Funny! We humans are so funny!
Oh, that sounds so like my grannie and her six daughters!
This is a true story in ours as well! Though a jar would look better than the piles my sons keep!
Yes, ours are in piles at the moment, as well. Looking for a jar. A big jar.
This is a wise woman, at least they don’t lie around (as so many of the ‘collections’ do in our house…). Great story.
There just might be a use for them. You never know. I think we all know someone who lives by that creed. Very good story.
There might be a use for them, but no one knows what it might be!
A little collecting doesn’t hurt as long as it doesn’t get out of hand. A lot of people like my parents who went through the depression were afraid not to save what could be useful. My kids are just the opposite. Buy new and throw the old or don’t collect anything. These younger people are often on the move and don’t want to burden themselves. They may change as they age. Well done, Tresha. 🙂 — Suzanne
Yes, two extremes. People saved everything because they had to (and it still wasn’t enough) and now people often opt just to buy another one (of something).