You’re stranded in a foreign city for a day with no money and no friends. What do you do?
I know I haven’t done the daily prompt for a while, but this one was just too good to pass up! Some folks might cower in fear at the prospect of this scenario, but not me.
Being stranded like this would force anyone to stretch their survival skills. Am I right? For me, I would use all three of my super powers to get out of this mess~
1. My creativity
2. My charming personality
3. My horrific singing voice
I would put these to work with just a couple of found items~
1. A piece of cardboard
2. A bucket
“How, pray tell, fair Diva, would you use those things to survive all alone in a strange land?”
Well, let’s just set the stage, shall we?
I work in a crummy office, and sit at a desk all day. I hardly get a chance to charm and dazzle people with my wit.
Then one day, a tragically hot man in uniform comes in to where I work. It’s love at first sight.
We share a thrilling whirlwind romance! Jet setting all over the place. We can hardly escape the paparazzi!
We get married, and go far, far away for a honeymoon. This is really the first time we’ve spent a lot of time together.
After just a few days, my annoying personality starts to get the better of him, so he decides to ditch me and head for home to start divorce proceedings. Leaving me all alone in a foreign land to fend for myself. I’m heartbroken.
Mr. Cheeky seems to have snuck away with all of my cash, traveler’s checks and credit cards. I need to find a way to make some quick bucks so I can get home to kick Mr. Cheeky’s teeth out.
Once the shock of being dumped wears off, I get angry. The wheels start turning. How do I get myself out of this? What can I do to make just enough money to get back home? Who the hell is that creepy girl leering over my shoulder? In my younger days, I used to be quite the singer. I can use this to get me back home. (I didn’t say good, I just said “quite the”)
I go to a place that I think is the most likely to find someone who speaks the local language as well as English to ask for help. I ask for a big piece of cardboard and I write a message on it. The kind stranger writes the same message in their native tongue. I then ask for a bucket.
I head to the busiest place in town, set down my bucket, hold up my sign, and start belting out some show tunes at the top of my polyester clad lungs. My sign says:
AS SOON AS THE BUCKET IS FULL OF MONEY, I’LL STOP SINGING
As you can imagine, that bucket is overflowing with cash in short order. Mr. Cheeky has no idea what’s in store for him, as he’s already making plans with someone else. Little does he know, he’s about to get his comeuppance.
Within a few hours, I am headed home and I am ready to give him what for. I’ve even dressed for the occasion.
Poor Mr. Cheeky. I’ll teach him to rue the day he tried to get rid of me. Serious rue-age.
After some really hard soul searching, and a sock in the nose, Mr. Cheeky realizes the error of his ways.
“And they lived happily ever after”
~In reality, the marriage of Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman was one of Hollywood’s shortest. They were married on June 27th, 1964, and divorced on July 28th of the same year, just 32 days later.~
Well that was an enjoyable adventure that I hope never happens to me! lol
Ha ha! Thanks. I decided to use these two because I DO have a terrible singing voice and I did a post a while back about how I could make Mr. Cheeky look like Ernest Borgnine if I beat him with a frying pan. I had no idea they were married to each other when I got the idea, or that the marriage really did end in essence on the honeymoon. 🙂
that’s funny!
wow
I loved that
I have spent many days in many cities with no money or stuff. It isn’t as fun as you made it sound. But I too can be creative in my use of free time. So it’s all good.
Have you really seen Ernest Borgnine naked???
No, and I don’t want to.
Ha!
Interesting plan!
Being caught out like that for a day wouldn’t really bother me.
But if it did, I’d find similarly lost people, and we’d go and beat the hell out of Daily Prompt for putting us in that position
Yeah! Don’t forget all the people that suffered a house fire thanks to the Daily Prompt as well! Happy Friday!
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Brilliant! Funny! Awesome! The daily prompts have been missing your cheekiness. 🙂 32 days… Wow, that seems the start of something funny: how many things have lasted longer than their marriage? The tub o’ mystery in my fridge… Honey Boo Boo… Bieber mania… Oh dear, this is starting to get depressing.
Thank you so much! I’ve really missed doing them. It’s so funny, I had the pics in mind, those always come before the words. Had no idea these two were really married. Mr. Cheeky read it over his lunch. What a good sport. He laughed. Hope our marriage lasts at least 32 years, but we aren’t spring chickens, so I don’t know if we’ll make it. But it won’t be for lack of trying~and laughing together a lot. 🙂
*raises glass* Here’s to you and the Mr., and may you reach that 32 year mark and go beyond it too.
thanks! at 32 years, we’ll both be 79. Yikes! Sucks to get old. 🙂
Sucks? Old? By then, 79 will be the new 50. 😉 Besides, each new age brings its own new adventures right?
Um, yeah……50 is looming, and it doesn’t feel like the new 40 by any means. You young folks and your optimism. It’s kinda cute.
It’s all we have!!!! Without our optimism we’d just have to face the truth, and that sounds terrible, because getting old sucks, as you already so eloquently stated. 😛
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This was a lot of fun, Cheeky. You were Ernest Borgnine in that scenario, right?
Um, yeah sure, Valerie 😉
Ain’t love grand 🙂
Um yeah, it sure is. I had way too much fun with this one. Thanks for dropping by.
This is brilliant, how do you mean how
brilliant? Well let’s just say that I like it a lot 🙂
Aww, thanks! “brilliant” isn’t a word I would have used, but I’ll take it! I try to only write here when I’m in a silly mood.
I could make money that way! Thanks for all the info & pics about Ernest Borgnine & Ethel Merman too!