Nice Sunshine

[Gita]

Nobody really speaks French anymore in Louisiana, at least not the younger generation, but everybody fakes it. Me, I really do, but I keep that to myself and pull in the shrimp nets and eat my soup slow-like with a polite spoon.

So the other day, I hear this song on the jukebox down at Ma Jolie Blonde by some group called Beausoleil. That was some good song, with a fiddler sawing away and an accordian player squeezing away and all the shrimpers swaying on their barstools to the beat.
So I say, I give $5 if the guy next to me knows what "beausoleil" means, and he don't know, and neither does the guy next to the guy next to the guy down the line.

Marie, who runs the joint says "it means nice sunshine," and palms my five off the bar, but her pretty eyes say "well, look at you!" and my eyes say back, "there's more surprises where that came from."

[Brian Michael Barbeito]

what Cath B. said.
great 6.

[Bill Floyd]

My college roommate loved Beausoleil. I could've made 5 bucks!

[Cath Barton]

I like the exchange of looks.

[Jared Handley]

I enjoyed the way this came together seamlessly around the reader. It was like riding through the scene on one of those airport people movers.

[Maria]

Interesting observation and gives a glimpse of saness indeed, but atleast some know how nice sunshine is in french.

It gives some sunshine itself.

[michael r. oconnor]

If I was a teacher and this was a class assignment, you would be at the head of the class for expressing realism and imagination. Very nice.

[Sandra Davies]

Lovely, atmospheric tale ... and how nice that I can say "I've been to Loiusana"

[Stephen Torelli]

An excellent down to earth Six.

[Gita]

Thank you all for reading my pieces. I appreciate your comments and support.

[Michael Brown]

Very authentic. I felt the Cajun sensibility wash over me in "That was some good song..." and from there on I was in that bar. When I was finished reading this marvelous piece, I thought, "Well, look at you!" You're full of surprises.