Friday Fictioneers – Write a 100-word story based on the Photo Prompt image above by  © Rowena Curtin

Table for Two

With a spring in her step, Mia breezed into the supermarket. It was her turn to host the writer’s group meeting, with a potluck lunch to follow. 

She scanned her shopping and to-do list. She was doing alfresco on the patio. All was sorted, but the small table and two chairs needed a wipe. 

At self-checkout, her bag of parsnips wouldn’t scan. She hailed staff to help.

“Who prints a barcode on a crease?”

“I’d say probably a man!”

“Coming tomorrow?”

“Sure am!”

“Great! I’ll reserve the table for two for your palm reading!”

“Hopefully I don’t see troubled waters with Claudia’s cruise!”

Thanks for reading. This tale came to me while at the supermarket, and I was buying parsnips for a stew, and they wouldn’t scan for me, the lovely assistant did say, laughing, ‘probably a man’, and I do belong to a writer’s group. But that’s all! Everything else in this yarn is fictional!