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TITLE: Morning for a baby boomer | Previous Challenge Entry
By Lou Bloss
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"Oh boy," he thought.
He stepped off the scale and reached into the shower to turn on the water. The hard spray cascaded down into the tub and a cloud of steam rose behind the shower curtain.
He closely examined his face in the mirror. A few wiry white strands stuck out from his eyebrows like wayward electrical wires. Wrinkles creased his forehead as he raised one eyebrow.
His belly rested on the faux marble counter top, and as he stepped back he also turned sideways to view his profile. He momentarily considered a body wax, or at least a belly wax, but quickly came to his senses. Why endure such pain when there is no one in your life to impress, he thought.
He looked at his partial which sat in a glass bowl of water, considered the surgical scar he acquired when his appendix was removed two years ago, and noticed his earlobes were getting bigger. They looked much like his Uncle Billy's earlobes, except with more hair in the ear.
"God never intended this," he thought. "But I guess you get what you pay for." He briefly envisioned a once-bitten apple as he stepped into the steamy shower, and he began to sing hymns loudly to an angelic audience of which he was blissfully ignorant. His day had begun.
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I liked it because I live with a baby boomers who does pretty much the same things each morning.
Thanks for sharing.
I had to spend time over the last paragraph -which is a clever tactic to make one linger on the page.
Again, good writing :) .