Sue’s #WritePhoto Prompt this week:
Well, this photo sparked some memories!
Sashaying around the house, 11-year-old Ritu was so proud of the new boots her parents had bought her.
She felt so grown up, so in fashion – something she had rarely been in the past. Actually, the boots had been given to her a few weeks back, and she had debuted them at her school residential trip, at the disco, along with her rainbow coloured dress.
Oh yes, so on-trend was Ritu!
They were the boots of her dreams, grey suede pixie boots, with a slight slouch to them. Ritu had never owned something so ‘cool’!
Today, they were visiting some family, and she was looking forward to showing off the funky footwear.
It was a beautiful sunny day so Ritu, her brother and cousins were playing in the garden. The boys played football – obviously – and the girls wandered around chatting.
Splash!
Stupid boys! They’d kicked the ball into the pond. Ritu couldn’t let the young ‘uns risk getting the ball out, so off she went, heroine extraordinaire, to rescue the situation.
Bending over she reached out to the middle of the pond to gently coax the ball towards the edge of the pond…
Even bigger SPLASH!
Ritu was sat in the pond, dripping wet, amongst the frogspawn… then she remembered her beautiful boots!
Ruined!
Based on a totally true event as I was growing up.
I never did wear them again, despite my mother doing some amazing rescue mission to make the boots wearable again… I just kept on smelling frog… (actually, I think I imagined a fishy smell that wasn’t really there…) Those poor boots… and poor me with frogspawn all over me!
They looked a bit like these boots!
https://scvincent.com/2018/04/26/thursday-photo-prompt-splash-writephoto/
But I Smile Anyway... 
Jun 11, 2018 @ 23:27:59
Omg nooo! frog spawn? ewwww! but hey you rescued your cousins ball? 😛 xxx
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Jun 12, 2018 @ 05:50:41
I don’t think I even gave the ball a thought, but possibly the splash that occurred when I fell in splashed it right out! Lol!
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May 03, 2018 @ 11:35:48
Aww, poor young Ritu! Your mom was so sweet in getting those boots back to their best shape. . . Love her! ❤️
Anyway, it is funny how we see this as comical and not at all embarrassing once we grow up! Too bad since you were rocking those cool boots and a rainbow dress, too! 🌈 xo
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May 03, 2018 @ 14:53:25
I know, that dress!!!! It was a true horror, but at the time I thought I was the bees Knees!!!
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Apr 29, 2018 @ 05:47:05
Awwe, I’m sure it was all a big conspiracy, even though you were too young and innocent to realize it then 🙂
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Apr 29, 2018 @ 06:54:47
Do you think So? To rid me of my boots???
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Apr 28, 2018 @ 23:54:49
Great story, Ritu. What is it about that age of girls? I remember pleading with my mother for a pair brown suede boots with heels – so cool, so grownup. She argued that they weren’t proper winter boots and that my feet would likely get wet and cold in the snow. I won and though I thought I was the pinnacle of fashion, my mother was right… wet, cold and salt-stained all that winter and the paint wore off the cheap heels. Of course, I didn’t DARE complain and admit my mother was right!
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Apr 29, 2018 @ 06:51:54
It’s obviously a right of passage!! Suede boots indeed!!!!
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Apr 28, 2018 @ 02:50:25
What a shame the boots got spoiled. I can remember getting suede shoes splattered with rain when I was about 11 too. It was a very sad moment. You capture the feeling well.
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Apr 28, 2018 @ 07:50:46
I was gutted!
Thanks Suzanne, I’m glad you understood!
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Apr 27, 2018 @ 17:49:09
Superb storytelling. 😎🥀😎🥀😎🥀
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Apr 27, 2018 @ 19:25:05
Thank you Dorna!!!!
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Apr 27, 2018 @ 14:23:02
In the drink and ruined boots on top of it all… Sending hugs to little Ritu. ❤
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Apr 27, 2018 @ 15:38:24
Thanks sis! Lil Ritu needed them!
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Apr 27, 2018 @ 12:07:32
I hate wardrobe malfunctions, especially when it comes to a beloved pair of shoes (or boots).
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Apr 27, 2018 @ 15:40:05
This was just too sad!!!
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Apr 27, 2018 @ 18:30:56
I know… 😥
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Apr 27, 2018 @ 11:50:58
Oh no, Ritu. You must have been heart broken. It is a pity you didn’t think to take them off. I lost a shoe down a drain once which upset me a great deal and I also would never wear the retrieved shoe again.
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Apr 27, 2018 @ 15:40:55
I was too busy thinking I could solve every problem lol!!!!
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Apr 27, 2018 @ 11:03:02
Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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Apr 27, 2018 @ 09:24:17
Frog smell and frogs spawn, will always negate the heroine you no doubt were.
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Apr 27, 2018 @ 11:36:57
Lol! Thanks Michael!
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Apr 27, 2018 @ 00:58:18
The sacrifices heroes must make… 😉
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Apr 27, 2018 @ 05:58:13
Indeed Brother… when duty calls…!
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Apr 27, 2018 @ 12:36:57
Too awesome!
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Apr 26, 2018 @ 22:48:49
Ah… the dangers of small boys and brothers 😉
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Apr 27, 2018 @ 05:54:31
They are truly perilous!
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Apr 27, 2018 @ 06:23:47
Oh yes!
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Apr 26, 2018 @ 22:34:20
Ah such a superhero. We know your chosen power too… to be completely water repellent…
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Apr 27, 2018 @ 05:54:18
That would have been handy… especially for my boots lol!
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Apr 26, 2018 @ 22:30:05
Oh! the ignominy of it all Sis 💜💜💜
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Apr 27, 2018 @ 05:53:50
I know sis! ❤
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Apr 27, 2018 @ 07:18:32
💜💜
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Apr 26, 2018 @ 22:06:29
No wonder you croak while singing. Must be the frog in your throat😃
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Apr 27, 2018 @ 05:53:26
HA ha!!!!!!! It was not a pleasant experience, I’ll tell you that!
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Apr 27, 2018 @ 13:15:15
😃😃😃
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Apr 26, 2018 @ 21:05:17
I can only imagine how tragic that must have felt at the time, especially since you still remember it.
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Apr 26, 2018 @ 21:07:06
Oh James, I think I must have looked tragic! Pondweed streaking my head and clothes, dripping pondwater as I pulled myself out of the pond… whilst the others were killing themselves laughing!
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Apr 26, 2018 @ 21:09:30
I hope you recovered.
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Apr 26, 2018 @ 21:13:30
Pride bruised more than anything else! 😉
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