Daily Prompt: A bird, A Plane, You!

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You get to choose one superpower. Pick one of these, and explain your choice:

  • the ability to speak and understand any language
  • the ability to travel through time
  • the ability to make any two people agree with each other

Photographers, artists, poets: show us POWER.

Fluffy in the living room

“Meow Fluffy”

No answer, let’s try again.

“Meow, MEOW Fluffy”

Still no answer. See WordPress Daily Prompt, it does not work, the ability to speak and understand any language. I tried Meow and my felines ignored me, but they would probably ignore me even if they understood: a matter of feline principles.

OK I am spoilt for languages. I live in a country where language differences form part of the daily survival. Where I live we speak German Swiss German in Solothurn dialect. Half an hour on the Motorway going south and they still speak Swiss German, but this time Bern dialect. Let us go West and we arrive in the town of 40% French speaking and the rest, you have it, Swiss German. Another ten minutes’ drive further and we are all speaking French. Let us go South for a few hours, and we all speak Italian: Swiss Tessin Italian dialect. Within five minutes of any journey in Switzerland you encounter a different dialect, we invented dialect. Coupled with the fact that after learning all this double dutch (no insult intended, I love the dutch) I took it upon myself to learn Russian for ten years, with a year Arabic thrown in for good measure. Who needs an ability to speak and understand a language. I am happy to manage to do my shopping in this country without speech complications.

I am not so sure about travelling through time. With my luck I might land in the trenches in the middle of a World Ware One battle and be gassed or killed. Perhaps I would arrive during the French revolution where the chopping block is waiting, being decapitated whilst the female revolutionaries would be busy knitting and looking on. I would be there when the Russian Revolution broke out, only to be shot by a misguided bullet from a revolutionary or Russian soldier. So let us put that on one side. Who wants to travel in time when you do not know where and when you will arrive.

I could make two people agree. Valdimir Putin and Barack Obama agree to have a Big Mac together: Putin because they are a delicacy in Moscow and Obama because he is fed up with super menus at the White House. They would agree to disagree and we would be no further in solving the world problems.

At the moment I would be happy to have a super power to solve my own problems. My diabetes would disappear overnight. Mr. Swiss back problems would no longer exist and my 98 year old father would again be able to walk down the road and do his shopping on his own. Who needs special powers, when the basics no longer function as they should.

Daily Prompt: A Bird, a Plane, You!

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  2. I read this post to a friend who chose time travel. They want to go into the future and bring back technology. I say bring a newspaper from tomorrow so I will know which horse is winning which race and the lottery numbers! I am stuck between time travel and speaking and understanding every language. Great post. Meow to Fluffy and the other fabulous felines.

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  14. Einverstanden, brilliant lady. But why ever does your cat have all that paraphernalia on? I can’t believe I figured out the spelling of that word.

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    • We have three cats and this is Fluffy an 11 year old Selkirk Rex. When he was 2 years old he had an accident and is completely blind (although he does not seem to realise it). He has a collar with his name and address in a pendent and a little bell to keep the birds away. He also sometimes has a harness as we attach him to a wooden pole in the garden with an expandable dog lead. That way he can still enjoy a safe walk around outside on his own at a comfortable distance.

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      • Oh, I thought he was just being Swiss. We have only one cat, Martha the Bad/Mad. She is one year old, got her from the pound. She, too, has a bell, but she has already snagged a starling. How, we don’t know, since she had never been allowed outside before we got her. I tried to secure her first with a bloody leash (‘lead’), but she started to claw me. ME! Her Father! After all I’d done for her! Anyway, she proved too fast for us, out the door. Deal with it. She had this ridiculous name when we got her, ‘cupcake.’ And so we decided to dub her Martha and the v.d.’s, but as you can see, her name keeps evolving……………….

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        • Cats are usually not so keen on leads but I found that in England they have very good leads for cats, more a harness, and does not put such pressure on their necks. Fluffy is used to going out on a lead, although you cannot lead a cat when walking, they lead you. Otherwise our other two cats go in and out as they please, no problem. They know where they belong and never go far. They are all now around 11-12 years old so slow down a bit in old age.

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          • Geesh! I hope so. Also that she outlives us. Rubes, our pooch, almost made it to l3, but just got too damn tired. Keep on truckin’. Hmm……..wonder what rhymes with that? Hmmm….

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