polished cutlery - a writing prompt (exercise).

The cutlery was sharpened and polished. His boss had been after him for weeks now to come up with some new menu item; and item that would bring great attention to the restaurant. Day after day, night after night. The same old thing. "Give me something new; something wild. We need to be famous.

If famous was what he wanted, famous is what he would get. His boss came in that night. Said the same thing, "give me something new, something exciting, something to get my blood flowing." And the chef grabbed his newly sharpened and polished cutlery and sliced through the vegetables and herbs that would become the basis for his new and exciting menu creation. This was just the beginning. And the dish would become famous.

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NOTE: I gave myself a writing prompt. The idea was to take a thought and write two pages from it. I got two paragraphs. My concentration is shot. My next project is to create a recipe that can go along with this. Now that is a challenge.

gecko

I was paying bills today and had the television on in the background. I noticed a commercial with that annoying green gecko. The story caught my ear and I started watching.

The story was that the gecko walks into his boss's office because the boss wanted to see him. The boss starts talking about trust. He steps out from behind his desk and starts to do an exercise on trust. This exercise is where one participant trusts that the other participant will catch him as he falls backward. I looked and saw the boss, towering over the gecko and he started to fall backwards.

I was thinking "great, what a perfect way to get rid of this gecko." And then they cut away. They don't tell you what happened to the gecko. I can only hope.

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