Pedantry

A Thursday Prompt story
© 2020 by Walter Reimer


Prompt: teacher


Jasper looked up wearily that morning as his coworker breezed into the office. The redtailed hawk stopped as soon as he saw the badger and clacked his beak in disbelief. “Jasper? That you?”

“Yeah. Yeah, it’s me, Tom.”

“You okay? You look like two miles of bad road – and what’s with the sports drink?” he asked, gesturing at the bottle by Jasper’s elbow. “You hung over?”

“I wish.” The badger grabbed the bottle and drained the last of it to the dregs in one long swallow. “Went out to the club last night. Met this cute little jenny.”

“Ah!” The hawk nodded. “Got up under her tail, huh?”

“Yeah.”

“So why are you looking so worn out?”

Jasper opened another bottle of sports drink and said, “She’s a teacher – made me do it over and over again until I got it right.” He took a healthy swig and smiled.

“Teacher, huh? Did she do it with class?” Tom asked.

Jasper threw the empty bottle at him.


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