"Good morning, sir. Can I help?"
"I wish to buy lucky pants. Girl I chat in bar yesterday say 'no' when I ask… you know. She laugh and say Dmitri not wearing lucky pants. I did not know. Is shame, very shame."
Tina pepped her professional smile. Dmitri's accent suggested his handicap was idiom, not idiocy. Idiom and optimism.
"Men's underwear is second floor."
"Yes. Man there say ask you."
Darren. Bloody Darren. Bloody childish. Anything he could do to wind her up. He still couldn't accept she'd turned him down.
Her smile straightened out, paused a moment in thought… and revived, a little sharper, a little less professional.
"Could you take these and show them to him?"
She took a pair of knickers down from the display and wrote on them: "Mmm, thanks Dmitri. I got lucky. Love, Tina."
"Lucky Pants" was first published online with Flash-Fiction South West and then included in the Kissing Frankenstein & Other Stories anthology. More background here and here.
"I wish to buy lucky pants. Girl I chat in bar yesterday say 'no' when I ask… you know. She laugh and say Dmitri not wearing lucky pants. I did not know. Is shame, very shame."
Tina pepped her professional smile. Dmitri's accent suggested his handicap was idiom, not idiocy. Idiom and optimism.
"Men's underwear is second floor."
"Yes. Man there say ask you."
Darren. Bloody Darren. Bloody childish. Anything he could do to wind her up. He still couldn't accept she'd turned him down.
Her smile straightened out, paused a moment in thought… and revived, a little sharper, a little less professional.
"Could you take these and show them to him?"
She took a pair of knickers down from the display and wrote on them: "Mmm, thanks Dmitri. I got lucky. Love, Tina."
"Lucky Pants" was first published online with Flash-Fiction South West and then included in the Kissing Frankenstein & Other Stories anthology. More background here and here.
2 comments:
That was very awesome! I liked how she went for revenge. It was also hilarious! Especially what Tina wrote on the knickers. Great job!
Haha! Tina is not a woman to be messed with.
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