“Who would do this to us?” wailed Betty.

“Any number of damn idiots!” retorted George.

“What can we do?”

“First; both of us are fine.”

“Yes but”

“And we still have each other.”

“I know that ‘ but these despicable”

“Never mind,” soothed George. “We’ll just have to buy another garden gnome.”

Notes:

• All rights reserved.
• Copyright Trevor W. Hampel 2006
• First published in FreeXpreSsion magazine August 2001