Story Without End.

[Spoonboy]

I do not know if this is the correct site for my quest; but, I will have a go and see.

I thought that we could do a story without an end and see where it leads us, just for fun: of course, I shall start off with a character and you can add to the story, and those after can follow on from there...

...But we also need a title, I think. Therefore, I shall call it, The Turning Point.

Here goes...

Jack Dempsey's life has just taken a turn - for the worse, he cannot decide...

[AlwaysConfused]

what direction to turn or who to blame for his demise.

[Spoonboy]

If a demise it must be. For he has just won the lottery, but cannot remember where he put his ticket...

[Maydup]

.....between leaving his job anyway, or going to the disciplinary hearing. He hadn't expected things to get to this stage when he first ......

[Maydup]

Oh well he's won the lottery so quit the job and start hunting for that ticket! Try the shed....

[AlwaysConfused]

"the ticket, the ticket" he muttered, whilst pacing the lengths of his study. Then it came to him. He'd left it.....

[paddywak]

In the pocket of the jacket he'd sent to the charity shop

[AlwaysConfused]

It was the worn dark jacket with slightly frayed cuffs. Why did he give it up to the shop? He wondered. He loved that coat. Racking his brains for the answer, last weeks events starts to unfold in his mind.

[paddywak]

It was his wife and daughter he decided, always going on about how scruffy he looked when he went to the allotment, women just didn't understand a mans attachment to a comfy old jacket and a battered hat.

[Spoonboy]

He laid on the grass in the park and an elephant came along and trampled it...

[Spoonboy]

(not part of it, but I sahll leave it alone now, and let you all have fun: I am laughing at some of the story as I speak).

[AlwaysConfused]

crushing all in sight. "Elephant", he chuckled to himself. He had fond pet names for his for his wife. She...

[slinky.kate]

'oh that elephant gave me a fright but now i see its only plastic,i wonder if it belongs to that kid thats crying

[AlwaysConfused]

Jack handed the toy elephant to the child and laughed that he had been startled. Nothing had made him jump since the realistic mannequin in that clothes store, the store where he had originally bought that jacket. The store seemed to feel familiar, seemed to have relevance to the missing ticket. That's it! Whilst trying the jacket on, he...

[Leecon]

...was sure that he had seen the mannequin REALLY move and it took on the persona of... ...his wife!!! Had SHE got anything to do with the missing lottery ticket... ...

[askyourgran]

Was she really in Peckham visiting her mother, or on a plane to some exotic island with her lover and his lotto ticket? He remembered putting the jacket into the charity bag, but his wife had taken it to the shop.......

[AlwaysConfused]

...which was unusual as she hated anything to do with shopping or shops. Exotic Island? Would she? Jack wondered if his wife was trying to get back at him somehow for swapping her menopause tablets for....

[sandyRoe]

He gave a wry smile to himself. Yes, he thought, she will be in Peckham. We've never been further afield than Spain. A flight to the Carribean is out of the question. Paranoia is creeping in. That damned ticket...

[Flyhalf]

Then he thought, her mother always hated me, and she's the one who gathered together all the bits and pieces going to the charity shop. And she couldn't resist rummaging where she wasn't wanted.

[paddywak]

Who'd been responsible for half the problems in in the marriage, no matter what Jack did it was never good enough for HER little princess.

[Spoonboy]

I like the reference of the elephant and wife: a stroke of genius, confused. Well done to all of you, you deserve a merit. And thank you.