Isn't Life Funny

Flash Fiction

Isn’t Life Funny

Walking around the block, again. Required being in the… well, old enough to need to walk daily if I want to keep walking at all. I usually go left one day and right the next, but I’ve seen every house on my block so many times! Today I decided to go up the side street at the end of our block just to be different. I could time it, walk up ex number of minutes, and then back and get my whole walking time in!

I’d never been up this street. I moved into the retirement home two years ago, and really wasn’t inspired to peruse the neighborhood. Living in a retirement home was embarrassing enough.

About ten minutes up, I came across a huge wall! Taller than me! Suddenly I wanted to see what kind of house was behind it! It must be somebody rich! Probably a mansion back there! But I couldn’t find a gate! Also, both ends of the huge wall had huge turns, but then trees and bushes you couldn’t walk through. Well!! If only I had wings…

However, I can be creative, I decided to climb the wall! I had on my shoes with the rubber bottoms so I could just climb up the sticky outie boards without worrying, there were lots of places to hang on to. Nobody was around, so up I went!

Well! the lace on my shoe caught somehow about three feet up. Too high to step down, and I couldn’t see to get the shoe off! Panic started closing in. Then Mike came by. I went to school with Mike! Mike owned this fence, which was holding his sheep in! I’d had a crush on Mike all through school.

Guess whose new husband is a sheep farmer… Isn’t life funny!