Wednesday's Words on a Friday

The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles.

The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.

If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along and read it.

This month the words are supplied by messymimi and can be found here.

This week's words are:

1. introduce
2. bawdy
3. insidious
4. outgoing
5. laborer
6. polite

and/or:

1. hall
2. conscious
3. ad hoc
4. sign
5. yarn
6. share

here is my story:

"I think it's very brave of you to make such an enormous change," said Joyce. "To introduce so much colour and texture."

"It's something I've been needing," said Marian. "I used to be such an outgoing person, but after marrying Doug I changed and didn't even notice it. His influence was so insidious, I was never conscious of the little things I changed in myself to accommodate his needs. Being polite, never meeting up with the girls for a bawdy night out sharing yarns of what went on at work and so on. There was no sign at all, until he died and I noticed everything. That elite circle we were living in, not one of them has been to visit since the funeral. Now that I'm a widow, I guess I'm one of the riff-raff again, just because I didn't have money when Doug married me. It doesn't make a bit of difference to them that I now have everything he left to me. I don't count, simply because I didn't 'come from money.'

"Well, I think you're a great person, just as you've always been and changing the look of this house now is a great idea. Pooh-Pooh to their bland ideas, their dull rooms with dull furniture, the beige everything, the whiter than white kitchens that never get cooked in. I love your new living room theme, the soft sage green walls, the rose coloured couch. What will you do in the entrance hall?"

"I'll hire a laborer to remove that ridiculous over-sized chandelier to start with," said Marian. "Then I'm not sure. Maybe some antique wall sconces to throw softer light and a few indoor ferns or something for greenery, definitely a chair to sit and take off my shoes the minute I get in, that's for sure."

Joyce grinned at that and said, "I know all about that. The first thing I do is kick off the shoes too and Barry does exactly the same when he gets in from work. I think it's far more normal than always being so perfect and so stiffly mannered all the time." 

"That was the worst," said Marian. "Never being able to laugh out loud at a joke or even tell a joke, making sure every dress I owned was wrinkle free and never wearing the same outfit twice in a season. Blah to all of that. I'm being me again."

"Good on you," said Joyce. 

"And I'm bringing the kids home from boarding school too," said Marian. "They're babies still. Five and six is too young to be away from me for weeks at a time. I never should have allowed that, just to please all of that crowd."