Microfiction Monday #48
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Gender Confusion?
Tracy and Tony dressed for their draftboard interviews. Alas, Tony’s out-of-season white gloves blew their credibility. They were drafted.
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Well at least Tony will be ready for the dress blues :). Good one Q.
Thom, yeah, but Tracy is going to look better in them!
Ooh er, poor things. Yes the white gloves are a give away aren’t they? Great stuff. :O)
Madeline — they were Klinger’s inspiration, but he never quite got it right, either.
LOL 🙂 You’re so good at these.
Thanks for stopping by tonight 🙂 The comments on my blog are the part that make it the funnest 😛 (It may not be a word, but I’m using it 😉 )
Teresa — this one took awhile to think up. I almost passed on this pic!
He. . .he (excuse the pun infested laughter). I can’t stop laughing. Brilliant.
p.s. I’m running a competition this week and holding a blogfest in November. If you get time, pop along and have a look.
Ellie — puins are appreciated and celebrated here. Share them anytime!
hahaha- “out of season gloves”. This is a hoot! Enjoyed the laugh.
GEL — I am glad the boys wer3e able to provide some entertainment.
I won’t take that personally 🙂
Nice one.
Tony — I meant to cast no aspersions on your character. Thanks for the use of your name!
Good one!!
Deborah — had I not seen this exact same witty and insightful comment on a half-dozen other MFMs I’d thank you for it.
The things people do to avoid unpleasant duties! Very funny 🙂
Jabblog — you know, I might go to extremes to avoid getting shot at myself!
The draft board are not easily fooled are they? 😉
Akelamalu — you know, if might not have been the gloves at all. I think Tracy had a bit of 5 o’clock shadow going!
Poor Tony!
(I didn’t even notice the white gloves when I saw Thom’s entry.)
Karen — you didn’t spend hours staring at the pic trying to come up with a story!
Yep, this was a particularly good one.
Doug — thanks. The inspiration came to me in a flash of leg. (Tony’s aren’t very shapely.)
Funny!
Linda — yes, but looks aren’t everything.
Thanks for the morning laugh. What made me laugh the most is the idea that army induction personnel would know about the rules for when ladies should or should not wear white gloves! Excellent story.
Pat — you know, if they have fashion incensed wives, they just might!
I laughed at this Quilly, I am still chuckling. Poor Tony, I guess he should have checked what the best dressed woman was wearing this season. Well if all else fails they can sign up for the Local Playhouse Revival of La Cage Aux Folles. :} Nice one Quilly.
Bill — Tony always was short-sighted.
Alas!! LOL Love the cross-dresser angle.
Becca — thanks. You can always count on me to be unconventional — thus my characters generally are, too!
You’re two draft dodgers should have talked to My trend setters.
Then they would have known that white gloves are so yeasterdays news.
Ha Ha, good one Quilly . Those white gloves really needed to b noticed and written about..
Have a great day, sun is shining here and Fall is around the corner.
Peggy — men are just hopeless with fashion, aren’t they?
TOTALLY LOL~you’re just GREAT at this, Quilly!
I guess Jamie Farr could have given them lessons!
Kelley — they certainly could have used his fashion knowledge!
But gosh darn it all–they did look pretty good in their outfits! I think they should leave them at home, though, once they’re sent off to boot-camp! LOL
Have a wonderful week ahead. Cheers!
Sylvia — they’d probably be safer leaving their party dresses behind.
LOL! I would have never caught that, but I guess draft boards are well-trained in what to look for.
Barbara — they are in my fictional world!
You are too funny!
Mama Zen, that’s what I aspire to!
it pays to read the fashion magazines. Remember, don’t ask, don’t tell. i like that there are so many different ones this week.
Nessa — I think this was way before the don’t ask, don’t tell era.
That’s a great one. Made me smile!!! :O)
Diane — I’m glad my silly brightened your day.
This one made me laugh out loud! And I can see Tony Curtis playing that role!
Hope — Tony Curtis has nicer legs!
That’s “awful”! But it made me laugh! Thank you!
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This is cute, Quilly. I am betting that neither of these guys will last the duration of their enlistment. 🙂
You know, our draftboard was lazy. We didn’t get interviews, just a letter saying to report to Omaha for induction. That was the only time I ever rode in a Pulman Sleeper car, going to Omaha for a physical and swearing in.
My girls looked like yours, but they didn’t act goofy like yours unless you read that into the story. They went to the football game.
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Oh that’s fantastic! I love it. I was so hoping someone would use those gloves — one pair white, the other black. I tried and couldn’t come up with a thing (so I killed them off, as usual—!)
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