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Snapped Up – Short Stories # 2 by Salty

Posted by salty | Main, Reader Submissions | Posted on September 12th, 2011

One night an old boy went out to celebrate the passing of certain important personal milestones with some of his friends. The night started off reasonably sanely with a barbecue for dinner along with plenty of liquid refreshments of the locally brewed and distilled varieties.  As the evening progressed, with a certain tasks to be carried out by teams of our revelers, consisting of certain photographic evidence being produced and other objects to be collected, the eventual winners were required to drink more refreshments.

To obtain the photographic evidence a certain reasonably good camera was obtained along with the owner of same. Much merrymaking was had in bars followed by more merry making in Walking street. As the camera owner was required to be reasonably sober for work the next morning he left the happy gathering about 11 pm and proceeded to walk home. Walking Street to his apartment was a good 30 minutes walk and so along the way he became thirsty and was persuaded to partake of more refreshments by some very hospitable young ladies.

The bar where these ladies resided had the obligatory pool table which for some reason attracted the attention of our evening traveler.  The pool table passed inspection in that the balls ran straight and did not deviate as they were propelled along the table. An agreement was made with one of the hospitable ladies whereby if she could win 3 games of pool out of 3 games, our evening rover would bar fine her.  She lost and could only win 1 game.  Was she trying to win or was the late evening imbiber not to her liking. Not too sure about her intentions as she was at other times involved with wantonly molesting him. Our, by now, somewhat drunken friend made his excuses and proceeded on his way somewhat refreshed. Next morning on inspection of the damage to his person and property, he could not find his camera no matter where he looked in his apartment. This was not good news for him as he also uses it in his work and the pictures were not all uploaded to his computer. No time to waste as work was soon to start.  On the way to work he found the bar from the previous evening open for cleaning and inquiry there revealed that his camera was safely tucked behind the bar. That night drinks all round for the bar girls for their honesty.

Thanks girls!