55 Flash Fiction Friday – 7/16/10
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LOVE ‘EM AND HATE ‘EM
The beauty, precision and grace are stunning.
From beginning to end many patterns and shapes.
The power they hold are awesome. They don’t even talk.
People behave and follow their commands.
Sometimes they are hurt but recover quickly.
Traffic cones. Silent. Powerful. Bossy. Grrrrr.
Hey, it’s only my opinion.
A Hui Hou
Those blaze-orange cones do have a way of having the last word, don’t they? Got nipped by one this week, cycling to work. I swear, it jumped out and bit me.
ROFLMAO…They can be a pain in the ass that’s for sure
What is this a non theme theme week???
Cones have sooo much power!!!
Hope you are doing well
Must be and indeed they do. Have a good one
I bet you see your share of them you Brother?
Excellent 55 My Friend.
Thanks Thom for your fantastic support, you Rock Maui, Hilo, and all points in between!
Have a Kick Ass Week-End…G
You are too kind my friend. Yup I do see plenty. Have a good weekend yourself
ah the power in those little plastic cones. we have them all over the place here right now…seems like every road is getting worked on..but no money in the budget for education…whoops slipping into a rant…smiles. nice 55.
My friend I could have with this about that as well. I almost went that way with this
Thanks 
And you can rant here any time you want 
Because that my friend, is so true 
Traffic cones are our friends. They taught me how to parallel park, getting into the spot the first time. I’ll be forever grateful.
(Of course, I think my dad may have stolen those cones…)
ROFLMAO!!! To funny. Thank goodness for dads
Take a bow sir – excellent!
*bowing
Thanks my dear sweet friend 
a different perspective !! an interesting one too
Thank you very much
Loved this – so globally appreciated!
Thanks so much my friend. Indeed they are global. I never thought of that
Yes, it’s amazing how we concede to them so easily.
Enjoyed that.
And they are so short too LOL Thanks
Love ‘em or hate ‘em you have to obey ‘em! LOL
Good one Thom.
Mahalo my friend. Indeed we do
So good! The beauty and grace of traffic cones. By the way – they seem to be international as well – because ours in Germany look exactly the same.
And now that you opened my eyes for their grace, I will never ever just call ‘em “Leitkegel” any more…
Mahalo my friend. I’m glad you enjoyed.
I’m glad I’ve helped you give them another name 
Cones are better than barrels any day, but here in Michigan cones just get run over.
Aloha!
I think they do everywhere LOL
Yeah, but traffic lights are more permanent in their sway.
Isn’t that the truth
the beauty, precision and grace of traffic cones… definitely not the words i would use to describe them. but you do have a point (and so do the cones)
And you are so clever my friend
Mahalo 
Maybe it’s just my pointy head that made me come up with this LOL
That is really good! Funny how something small and silent still wields authority,
LOl..thanks my friend. I thought so as well
You sucked me in on this one. So true, just the same.
It took a long time for the picture to load, so as I was reading I kept wondering what you were talking about. Tremendously well done. Nice to meet you. I’m new to the 55 party. You can find me here.
Thank you my friend and thanks for stopping by. Much appreciated. Sorry it took the picture so long to load YIKES!!!
Oh man, those cones are nasty, vicious. Once the car in front of me hit one, flung it into the air, it hit the road, ricocheted under my car and took out the oil filter.
They have a mind of their own LOL
We have so much road construction on one patch I commute on the cones have grown into orange BARRELS. :0
Have a nice week off!
LOL…I think that is true all over the place LOL
Thanks I will 
I’ve never seen a construction zone so beautifully protrayed with precision and grace! Such staying power hath the traffic cone.
Excellent 55 I’d say.
Thank you very much. It was something that was needed to be said LOL