PHOTO PROMPT © Sandra Crook
Alexander and Peter inherited their parents’ fortune, and spent their time bickering.
Alexander enjoyed picking up pennies from the street and adding them to his bank account; while Peter was so wasteful, he threw money out the window of his plane.
On this occasion, Alexander was driving to town to buy groceries. He drove the rusted Mercedes convertible his dad left him. Suddenly, he lost control of the car as it left the road.
Search crews located Alexander’s car in a deep ravine. He was DOA. The autopsy revealed he died from a massive brain injury. A penny was found inside his skull.
This ironic tale of the fast and the frivolous is brought to you courtesy of Friday Fictioneers. Click on the froggy for more stories based on the photo prompt.
And the morale is… 🙂 Love it.
I feel a bit sorry for Alexander! Nice moral.
Wow, that was wicked!
lol thanks for reading
Now this is an interesting story, did the penny in his brain fall from the sky
could have
…not so pennies from heaven…good story.
thanks for reading, and glad to hear you enjoyed it
I take it the Alex was driving with the top down that day and penny-tossing Peter was passing overhead.
how’s that for bad luck?
Proof it serves no purpose to save and save and save… go out and live!
I wonder if Peter inherited Alex’s pennies? Perhaps that penny in the head was no accident. :o)
awful good aim though
You can now clean out the Tim Hortons cups from your truck (you do drink Timmies, don’t you? not that pretentious Starbucks, do they even have them on The Rock?) when you go through Corner Brook. The City Council has issued a 5 cents/cup bounty on them, to help keep the town clean. 🙂
I have a Kuerig, I make my own coffee. as for the truck, we just traded ‘er in
The antithesis of all that has been touted!💐