The Friday Fictioneer Challenge: Write a 100-word story based on the photo.
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Photo copyright Ted Strutz
Bottom of the Food Chain
In welding school, Tony imagined being on jobs like on the TV commercials: sitting on steel beams above the skyline, sparks flying, the building boom signaling a strong economy.
That didn’t happen. His assignments came from the bottom of the welding food chain: repair jobs for businesses barely hanging on.
He hated this job site: he cleaned it up each night; it was trashed out every morning. Punks. Thank goodness I’ll finish today, he thought. They can keep their discarded tires and toilets and find someone else to abuse.
Only today held a surprise for Tony: flowers in the toilet.
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It's a long story ... 
Life is not often what you see on TV… rarely, in fact!
A nice surprise 🙂
Secret admirer? 🙂 A fun little story. Hopefully things turn around for him soon.
Good start to a nice story with more stuff, Tresha. I never thought of the welding profession as something that had its own little “food chain.” Great! Nice work.
Perhaps that morning improved his outlook on life just a little.
I think you are right. Flowers do wonders for one’s outlook.
Someone’s appreciated his work. What a nice surprise for him, and an interesting story for us.
Was he in …, or was it just a discarded flower arrangement,
Nice story, I hope it changed his day!