Written for the Carrot Ranch‘s 99-word Flash Fiction prompt for August 22, 2019, ‘Old world charm’.
In my old world, nits were removed with kerosene, visits to the spider infested outhouse were completed with newspaper squares, mothers bored into your ears to stop the potatoes growing in there and rubbed at your face with their spit on a handkerchief, fathers twisted your ears as they dragged you to the scene of your latest sin, teachers clipped your ears to instill learning and the local copper handled juvenile delinquency with the toe of his boot. Charming. I tell my grandson but he just scratches his head. Now where did I put that kerosene?
Six Crooked Highways 
nicely written. Parental authority has kind of reduced now:)
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Thank you. Candidate for the understatement of the year, Nightlake 🙂
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lol:)
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Nice punch line. 🙂
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Lol, loved it. You can’t be too careful with nits 😉
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Sometimes we need to go back to our old-world roots! Great details that bring your writing to life. And I appreciate the twist of humor.
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Ha. Yeah. 👍
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Good one Doug, I recall the same treatments as I grew up.
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Sigh! Those were the days….:-)
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