Charli’s prompt this week:
March 29, 2018, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story about fingers that fly. Think about the different ways we use our fingers and what happens when we add speed. Go where the prompt leads.
Life Savings
Nervously, Frank handed the package over to the girl.
“Now, be careful with that-” He paused to look at her name tag “-Jennifer. I worked hard for those dollars. Now they tell me I gotta keep it in a bank, and not under my mattress. Safety, they say. It was plenty safe with me – until they got that new cleaner in. I don’t like her. Always tidying. I know she knows where I keep my money…”
Frank watched as Jennifer’s fingers flew, deftly lifting and counting the bills, like a seasoned pro.
“You will keep it safe, won’t you?”
https://carrotranch.com/2018/03/30/march-29-flash-fiction-challenge/
But I Smile Anyway... 
Apr 05, 2018 @ 14:33:36
I used to keep my money in a jar in the closet. 🙂 I can relate to Frank. Great story, Ritu. 🙂
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Apr 05, 2018 @ 15:22:52
Glad you could relate! Thank you 💗
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Apr 02, 2018 @ 07:43:01
Ah, yes. We do trust that our earnings will be safe. Lovely flash showing the anxiety of losing it.
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Apr 02, 2018 @ 08:25:05
Thank you Norah 😊
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Apr 02, 2018 @ 02:31:58
Considering what we have been seeing over the last few years, I think his money would have been safer in the mattress 😦
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Apr 02, 2018 @ 08:27:31
In certain definitely 😉
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Mar 31, 2018 @ 16:14:47
I remember watching a couple of shows about homes, and one was that when the old owners left or died – all that was in the house was sold with it. One had a mattress stuffed with bills and another had money stashed in an upright piano.
The one with the piano – the new owners traced the old owner who had moved into a retirement community and gave it back.
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Mar 31, 2018 @ 16:17:02
I remember a couple coming into the bank when I worked there with rolls of old…really old £5 notes that they had found in a deceased parents belongings. It happens a lot!
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Mar 31, 2018 @ 13:39:10
Good, Ritu!
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Mar 31, 2018 @ 14:20:58
Thanks Jennie!
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Mar 31, 2018 @ 18:39:26
You’re welcome, Ritu!
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Mar 31, 2018 @ 09:17:55
Ah, shame, poor old man not wanting to put his money in the bank.
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Mar 31, 2018 @ 09:43:47
I know… so many elderly in the same situation…
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Mar 31, 2018 @ 02:53:00
Hard to trust anyone’s flying fingers around your life savings! Your flash seems to foreshadow an ominous misfortune. Good use of a teller’s flying fingers. They are fast!
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Mar 31, 2018 @ 07:20:24
They can indeed be lightning fast! But I used to trust my fingers more than the automatic counting machines when I worked as a cashier in a bank! Yes, my fingers would hurt with large amounts, but I felt more reassured!
Thanks Charli!
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Apr 03, 2018 @ 06:35:53
I never thought about the ain of flipping through money so quickly, but I suppose it’s repetitive, too.
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Apr 03, 2018 @ 07:24:43
Yup…. can You imagine my face at 4.55pm when a customer came, 5 minutes before closing and placed a briefcase on the counter with 150K cash… they’d just sold a yacht and the buyers paid in notes… but we had to check it all! I think there were 5 of us cashiers speedily counting because we wanted to get home!!!
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Apr 04, 2018 @ 02:27:30
Oh, wow!
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Apr 04, 2018 @ 07:23:51
I don’t think wow was what we thought at the time lol as we got later and later going home!!!
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Mar 31, 2018 @ 01:29:53
I feel for the poor old chap. Age has caused him to make a lot of changes and using the bank is probably the one that frightens him the most. The teller’s flying fingers probably did nothing to make him feel any more secure. Good use of seasoned pro. Enjoyed the story.
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Mar 31, 2018 @ 07:14:02
Thanks Irene. I worked as a cashier for some years in a bank and I used to talk to several elderly customers about these kinds of things… It’s hard to reassure someone who has never had a belief that others can look after their things (money) as well as them… but I tried!
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Apr 01, 2018 @ 00:27:09
At least you tried. Bank tellers are almost a thing of the past here and my poor Mum refuses to do banking electronically so I have to drive her miles to the only bank that still has a cashier so she can operate her passbook.
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Apr 01, 2018 @ 11:04:50
Human cashiers are definitely a dying breed!
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Mar 30, 2018 @ 20:36:06
Aren’t some tellers amazing? I have watched them handle money so rapidly that I have questioned if they were actually able to count it proper.
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Mar 30, 2018 @ 20:51:17
It’s a proper skill!!!!!
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Mar 30, 2018 @ 19:17:59
Love it Sis 💜💜
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Mar 30, 2018 @ 19:18:18
Thanks Sis!
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Mar 30, 2018 @ 19:20:43
💜💜
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Mar 30, 2018 @ 14:50:55
Nice topic.. wanted to make a video about it, but alright (Laughs)
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Mar 30, 2018 @ 16:20:52
Lol!!!
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Mar 30, 2018 @ 20:40:42
Yeah.. it’d be like a short 2D animation video.. (I’ll need to learn 2D animation first lol)
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Mar 30, 2018 @ 20:52:39
Good luck learning!
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Mar 30, 2018 @ 12:48:59
I’ve seen some fast fingers count money. This is good Sister!
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Mar 30, 2018 @ 12:52:23
Thanks Brother ! I used to do that for a living at one time yoo!
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Mar 30, 2018 @ 16:52:28
You’re welcome Sister!! Wow, you had lightning fingers!
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Mar 30, 2018 @ 17:09:59
Maybe not that fast… but pretty quick! 😉
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Mar 30, 2018 @ 21:43:27
😄
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Mar 30, 2018 @ 12:12:02
Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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Mar 30, 2018 @ 11:16:21
Good one, sis!
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Mar 30, 2018 @ 11:27:21
Short n sweet eh sis!
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Mar 30, 2018 @ 18:57:45
Right 👍
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Mar 30, 2018 @ 10:27:08
Awesome! I love it!
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Mar 30, 2018 @ 10:43:55
Thank you lovely!
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