Zebra was thirteen and frustrated. The herd’s ne’er-do-well tripped over a stone one morning. He limped to the watering hole. Fawns cooed. “You okay?
Zebra’s chest puffed up. “Yeah. Kicked a hyena senseless, so…”
“My baby!” Zebra’s mother gushed. “Can you believe he used to wet his bed as a foal?”
Never gloat on social media, especially when your mother is on your friends’ list.
Hahahaha! Now that zebra is black, white, and pink from embarrassment…
Haha! I’d written a beautiful line about that, but I had to cut it to meet word count 🙁 Thanks for commenting, Courtenay!
Oh no! Ha ha ha ha, I can just picture his embarrassment 😀 Remind me to ALWAYS be on social media to embarrass my kid , Hema 😉
LOL! Always 🙂
It’s so hard to reinvent yourself as the person (er… zebra) you want to be when your mother cramps your style!
LOL! Mama needs to understand social media etiquette.
Mamas never do though (*cough* peeks at what own children are up to on the interweb)
Hehheee I bet I’ll be the snoopy mama once M is old enough to get on social media (which I hope she’ll never be! She needs to stay 4 forever!)
Good luck with that! Kids have a knack for growing up much more quickly than parents would like them to. (My second one just started driving… I’m not okay).
Oooh I can I imagine. Hugs! ❤️❤️
I love your modern day moral. 🙂
Thanks, Margaret! I was worried it wasn’t “moral-y” enough, but works for 2018 I guess 🙂
Hah! I bet the fawns are waiting for photo proof of the deed too 😛
LOL! Zebra needs to get on Instagram! Hope his mama won’t follow him there.
OOh, this was a cool take on the prompt. My mother totally does this, so she has been slightly blocked. LOL
tee hee! I’ve unfollowed so many people that my newsfeed is full of Buzzfeed tasty videos 🙂
Hahahaha that’s funny… Loved the story 😁
Thank you so much!
Haha! I love the funny take on the prompt. Even the moral gave me a chuckle. I enjoyed reading this!
Thank you, Carrie. This was my first attempt at writing comedy, so glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Ha. good reminder that my mom is on my friend’s list!!
So funny and so (almost) true. In my world, it’s not my mom but sisters and cousins.
Ha! This is a great modern moral. The way you equate the watering hole with social media is the perfect metaphor. I do have one criticism, since you posted the badge. 🙂 It seems to me that the story was leading to a different moral. That is, the young zebra wasn’t gloating, he was actually flat-out lying. If he had actually kicked the hyena, the moral would follow more cleanly. Or if the mother had called him out on the lie in public, that might have been a little closer.
Love the modern-day moral.
I think I brayed out loud when I read this. And then I went to click the Haha smilie and realized I wasn’t on facebook…
Great modern moral.
I giggled at the moral, and Zebra’s chest-puffing. Teenagers! I’m not sure it was necessary to describe him as a ne’er-do-well, though – his instinct to boast at the fawns, and the story he goes with, tell us all we need to know about him.