The Ill-Fated Breakfast: a limerick

Jabo

@jaboUK (64360)

• United Kingdom

12 Jun 16

@pgntwo Yes, I hadn't noticed about the 3rd line - that would make it a perfect limerick.

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

12 Jun 16

If you separate the third line into two at the comma, it's more a Limerick then... ;)

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@puddleglum (1380)

• United States

12 Jun 16

Thanks. You're right, it doesn't strictly adhere to form/content. It's not a form I've played with since I was a teenager. I loved reading limericks back then.

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

12 Jun 16

Good limerick! I wonder if the cook in an early-start diner has breakfast before he starts work? Oh to be a short-order cook, His bleary eyes so often mistook The waitress's order Notes on the border The diner his fist he then shook!

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

12 Jun 16

@puddleglum And to be up and coping with all those grumps who have yet to take their first swig of coffee... no, not a short-order cook's life for me, I think.

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@puddleglum (1380)

• United States

12 Jun 16

@pgntwo Yes, people are not at their best in the morning. I'm certainly not!

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@puddleglum (1380)

• United States

12 Jun 16

Thanks! If I were a cook at a place like that, I probably wouldn't want to eat breakfast food. I'd probably have pizza. Nice verse! One should really sympathize with the cook. It can't be easy to keep up with all those orders.

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Marlina

@marlina (154163)

• Canada

15 Jun 16

Cute little thing!

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@puddleglum (1380)

• United States

15 Jun 16

Thanks. I shared this with my coworker and he felt better about his breakfast troubles after reading it.

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M.-L.

@MALUSE (69388)

• Germany

12 Jun 16

You have breakfast at work?

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

12 Jun 16

Many who start work early have breakfast at work, I suspect, @MALUSE. I know I do, a leisurely breakfast at 9:30 beats a rushed one at 7:30.

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@puddleglum (1380)

• United States

12 Jun 16

My coworkers and I eat breakfast at a restaurant every Friday morning before work. Usually, the pancakes don't take that long, but there was a new cook at the restaurant. I'm sure he will improve by next Friday.

Judy Evans

@JudyEv (329038)

• Rockingham, Australia

12 Jun 16

That's a long time to wait for pancakes isn't it? Great limerick!

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (329038)

• Rockingham, Australia

13 Jun 16

@puddleglum What a shame to have to walk away and leave them.

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@puddleglum (1380)

• United States

12 Jun 16

Thanks! Yes, I'm not sure they were worth it. My coworker didn't think so, he left and told the waitress to cancel the order, since we were supposed to start work at eight.

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@puddleglum (1380)

• United States

13 Jun 16

@JudyEv Yes. He deserved something after his wait.

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Claudia Kirkland

@CRK109 (14558)

• United States

17 Jun 16

lol! now that's just great! I love it and you've done such a good job on it!

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Claudia Kirkland

@CRK109 (14558)

• United States

17 Jun 16

@puddleglum It just goes to show that inspiration really does come from everywhere!

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@puddleglum (1380)

• United States

17 Jun 16

@CRK109 So true!

@puddleglum (1380)

• United States

17 Jun 16

Thanks! My coworker said he was glad his misfortune inspired me. I told him I hoped the limerick would cheer him up after not getting pancakes.

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Toni

@toniganzon (72279)

• Philippines

12 Jun 16

i would have had cornflakes as well if it takes that long to wait for a pancake.

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@puddleglum (1380)

• United States

12 Jun 16

Sometimes the best things in life are the simplest. Lol.

Toni

@toniganzon (72279)

• Philippines

12 Jun 16

@puddleglum

right.

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Bluedoll

@Bluedoll (16774)

• Canada

12 Jun 16

the cook Fred was much too hot he ignored for want of colder so hot cake day was never bought the waitress name was Holder Pete he thought it was a real steal because he lost his break fast times sitting in a booth begging for a meal writing on small napkins silly little rhymes

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Bluedoll

@Bluedoll (16774)

• Canada

13 Jun 16

@puddleglum but still get corn flakes

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