POTATOES AND SOCKS: Genre Shorties Prompt -- Week 137 Prompt

Genre Shorties Prompt -- Week 137

Here's some famous pairings ~

peasand carrots
stars and stripes
oil and water
Laverne and Shirley
peanut butter and jelly
needle and thread
cake and icecream
potatoes and gravy
Abbott and Costello
shoes and socks
Batman and Robin

I want you to

take thefirstwordof oneof those linesand 
thesecond wordfrom another line

-- "peasandwater" or "shoesandjelly" --

... and write up to 100 words on how well they go together. Or don't go together at all!

C'mon, you can do it. You slayed the "What happened to Thursday?" prompt, didn't you? Yes! Yes, you did!

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Your story may be serious or lighthearted or as silly as you like so long as it is 100 or  fewerwords.

Post your stories toGenre Shorties.

POTATOES AND SOCKS

(With apologies to both sides of the great sock potato debate)

© 2013 by David Wainland

100 words

“What have you got in your sock,” asked Sheila.

“A potato, the baking type.”

“Why such a big potato?”

“To give the sock the heft it needs.”

“Why?”

“To defend our house from communists.” I answered.

“Why, a baking potato is overkill.”

“Because I can, besides, potatoes don’t kill people, people with potatoes kill people.”

“You already have a safe loaded with sock potatoes”

“You cannot have enough potato loaded socks. That and the government is trying to ban potato socks.”

“Will you give them up if they do?”

“They’ll have to pry the sock from my cold dead fingers.”