For goodness sake! I only wanted to go to the supermarket to get a few things, so I jumped into the car and set out for the few miles to get there.
I swear that every ten yards or so that the car travelled, everything went back in time by several years. The style of the houses and gardens changed; the other vehicles were ancient models. Before long there were carts being pulled by horses along a dirt track. I still seemed to be driving my modern car but no one noticed.
The style of clothing changed, as did the hair. Everyone wore hats! Good gracious! I swear that boy is wearing what I would call knickerbockers. And there is a group of children racing with hoops.
Oh but it’s changed again. The industrial factories have given way to pasture land. I must have gone back quite a few centuries by now. There goes a knight on a horse exactly like I imagined they looked like. He was possibly on his way to join the Crusades. And here is the village market in the street.
I parked my car next to the communal well and walked along the stalls. I couldn’t see what I wanted, so I asked.
“Hello,” I said, “I’m looking for a few things but I can’t find them. I need to buy peppers, tomatoes, avocados, potatoes, and possibly some teabags?”
The man looked at me as if I was from outer space. He said a few things in what sounded like a foreign language, so I said “Speak proper English, you Bonehead.”
What a fool he was. I held up a couple of carrots indicating that I wanted to buy them and gave him a two dollar note hoping that would cover things. He took one look at my money and went berserk. Other stall holders joined in. Some threw eggs at me. I barely made it back to my car.
As I travelled home the time gradually moved forward again, and as I entered into my gated community I thanked God I was once again safely ensconced in the enlightened twenty-first century.
Very creative time travel! But would he ever be able to drive out to buy groceries now?
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It’s ok to get groceries provided one is doubled vaxed, got several boosters, wearing a triple mask, and order the groceries from home to be delivered once the shops are able to stock the shelves!
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This was so enjoyable to read. I felt transported as well. A marvellous story-teller
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Thank you Matthew!
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I always wanted to see a time travel story… keep driving to the fifties and buy things cheaply.
I thought for sure you were going to say you were leaving the Amish community.
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My life is too ordinary to be Amish.
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Yea I woudn’t fit either.
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Nice drive down memory lane, but not for that dolt (or anyone alive after a certain time, I guess). I too, wonder if he’ll venture out again…
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Of course he asked for American food which we take so for granted. Your garden these days would be so boring without them!
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It was the avocado that made me doubt his brains…
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Avocado is one of those spellings that I can never get right the first time!
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The time travel is a regular science fiction issue, but the climactic twist occurring during the attempted purchase of groceries is a marvellous stroke. I wonder how far from being guillotined was our naive protagonist!
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Cake wasn’t on his grocery list.
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Ah, the fantasy of time travel, you’ve got my favourite genre Bruce.
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So that explains why you often travel back in time in the outback!
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😂
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Hate it when that happens.
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Yes – thank goodness it’s only happened to me 4 times.
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3 for me so far.
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Good gracious. I think I’d be flogged.
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At least you won’t be hanged, drawn, and quartered.
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You have pretty perfectly captured the frustration of a trip to the grocery store today what with all the empty shelves.
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We don’t seem to have a shortage in most things – but prices have gone up – why miss out on an opportunity to bleed the consumer? The only thing I couldn’t find were cranberries – so had to get a commercially made jar of cranberry sauce. I shall disguise it in a pretty bowl and hope people don’t say “Your cranberry sauce is even nicer than last year’s”!
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My family actually prefers the jellied cranberries in the shape of a can. 😊
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Obviously the family were brought up right!
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I wish if I could go back. So, tired of this world. 😔
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I hope you don’t mean Build Back Better!
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No, I really Want to go back in the Time Of my childhood. But, I Know that it’s not possible. 😅
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