GOOD FRIDAY
A Good Friday Picnic…
At that particular Easter time, it was a good Friday, the sun was shining brightly from a clear blue sky, Asha laid the blanket out, in the shade of a big gum tree, on the grassy bank, by the Cobaki creek, little Belle sat there with her eyes wide open, as Asha produced a colorful salad, and set the plastic plates, me, Jesse and the Jettman, crossed the road and ordered up, at our local G ‘n’ G fish an chip shop.
Ok…So let me try and create a mind picture for the reader.
Were all sitting at the edge of the blanket, surrounding a mound of crumbed flathead fillets, chips, and calamari rings, a big bowl of a lively looking salad, and a plate of seeded cut slabs of that lovely watermelon…
Little Belle is wide eyed looking around, Asha an Jesse is laughing an talking, digging the now, Jettman is, as always, raving on about something or other…
As we all tucked in and enjoyed the picnic scoff, them birds nearby were chirping loudly, Asha says, ‘what are them birds on about’…
Then Jesse says, ‘QUICK everyone on there feet’…
Asha let off with a scream, and grabbed little wide eyed Belle, and threw her head first into the pram…Jettman jumped, Jesse, with a watchful eye, took a step backwards and surveyed the scene, me, I moved faster than I have for twenty years, landed on my feet and loudly clapped my hands, cause there, just a few paces away, was a mean an deadly, two meter, king brown snake, swirling across the grass toward us, I grabbed me croks and made a louder slapping, clapping sound, that big brown raised its ugly head, and with its beady eyes it looked straight through me, right then I realized, it was my time to sort this venomous creature out…One false move and that king brown would have fanged us all and helped itself to our fish an chips…
I conjured up one of my meanest, ugliest looks, then with a long and meaningful hiss…I shouts, ‘FUCK OFF ASP’…
That snake waved its forked tong at me and slithered off toward river bank…An Ibis poked around, Asha settled down, Belle was still wide eyed, Jesse was looking about, my heart settled down to an even thump, as Jettman blurted out, ‘Blokie, your better then Battman’…
As we motored up the hill, I was thinking yea, good call…
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