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. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.

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 to read it and add a few encouraging words.

This month the words/prompts are supplied by River (that's me) and can be found here

**Next month's prompts will be supplied by Messymimi**

This week's words/prompts are: 

1. instruction 

2. construction 

3. obstruction 

4. fuel 

5. compassion 

6. presentation 

and/or: 

1. depression 

2. craziness 

3. seemed 

4. house 

5. fountain 

6. chariot.

Here is my story:

Muddy water fountained out of the depressions left by the collapsed gazebo behind the house. The yard began to flood and the newly laid terrace seemed in danger of floating away. The site manager and the construction boss screamed at each other as muddy rivulets ran down their faces.

“How could this happen?” screamed Benny. “The instruction was very clear!”

“There was an underground obstruction where you wanted that west foundation,” said Roger. “We made a small deviation, but it should have been fine.”

“What obstruction?” yelled Benny.

“A watering or drainage system of some kind,” said Roger. “By the looks of things, there’s old pipes all over this damn plot and they’ve cracked wherever the heavier parts of machinery ran over them when delivering the parts for the gazebo.”

“So, what exactly went wrong?” said Benny.

“The water gathering underground from the leaking pipes made the soil too soggy to support the weight I guess. There has been a lot of rain lately,” said Roger.

“Who was the site inspector that passed the plan?” asked Roger. “Clearly he didn’t do his job properly.”

The craziness of the situation struck them both at once and they stood quietly, surveying the damage.

“Has the owner made any payments on the gazebo?” asked Benny. “I know he’s quite elderly and was planning to hold some kind of presentation party here once it was done.”

“Presentation party?” asked Roger.

“Yes, he was planning on handing the deeds to the property to his grandchildren, so they have a home instead of renting, he has already moved to a small retirement village with assisted living arrangements,” said Benny.

“So a little compassion on our part would be good along with a lot of apologizing,” said Roger. “I’ll go and fuel up The Chariot and go to the office and hunt up this site inspector.”

“I’ll go to the village and tell the owner and let him know we will be responsible for repairing the damage.”