Succinctly Yours is a weekly meme by grandma. Of this meme she says:
How low can you go?
Use the photo as inspiration for a story of 140 characters OR 140 words. It doesn’t have to be exactly 140, just not more. This one is 139 characters.
Giggling, my two-year old daughter ran toward the geese. She stopped, baffled, when they flew off. I threw a lavender ball to distract her.
Story Treasury 
one-thirty-nine
just under the line
as close as it can be —
just perfectly fine
at one-thirty-nine
at least, if you ask me!
The little girl is lucky you threw the ball to distract her because, if the geese hadn’t flown off, they might have attacked her. They can be pretty ferocious, and they bite!
— K
Kay, Alberta, Canada
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LOL Way to rhyme in the comment box! Good job!
i’ll believe that, the few geese I’ve seen look bigger than most toddlers.
You paint a very sweet picture of mother and child in the park – lovely!
Thanks Helen!
Nice mother/child story to go with the picture. I could relate, actually, as I used to bring my kids to the park to feed the ducks and geese. 🙂
My parents used to take me to the park, but ours only pigeons.
Aww, what a sweet picture you painted with your words. Lovely!
Thanks Pat!
Very sweet! I’m glad she didn’t run into the water (my daughter did, at a similar age, followed by our dog!)
That would be scary!
Children do love running after geese or any bird for that matter, I could totally picture it Nice one 🙂
They do! Butterflies, bees, anything. Got to keep a sharp eye on kids.
Distraction is the key-good one!
Thanks Susan!
Distraction is one of parenting’s finest techniques. Makes for a very nice microfiction as well.
It is! Thanks Grandma
You have mastered the art of parenting… defence and distraction. Nice take.
thanks! I’ve only a couple of nieces, but I learned it on them.
Children are so disappointed when geese and ducks fly off aren’t they? The ball would make up for that no doubt. 🙂
They do! and yeah the ball should more than make up for it!
Interesting- yours is the first story in the list that is told by someone else watching the geese.