Choice Morsels

  A little known fact about me is I was once was an active member of an Official Star Trek Club.  It was around the spring of 1988. My husband and I were living in Eglin Air Force Base Housing at the time and we saw listed in the personal ads in the Base newspaper that someone was seeking people interested in participating in a Star Trek Club. So, we were immediately interested and called the provided phone number. Turned out it was a couple right there in Base Housing. who only lived a few streets away from us, named Chris & Tammy. We promptly met them and soon we and a few others became regular Club attendees. To become an "Official Chapter of Starfleet," we first had to choose a name for our club, which was considered our "ship," then we registered formally with whoever managed the Trek Club regional chapters in Florida at that time. It had to be a unique name not being used by any other club.  Then we members in order to become "official crew members,...

   It was Christmas, 1969 when Santa Claus left me a Green Ghost Game, like the one this one pictured below.    The game consisted of the cool glowing board that stood on legs about 4 inches above the floor with black decorative pieces you slid into slots to decorate it.  (a spooky house, shipwreck &  tree). It included 1 large ghost spinner, 12 mini ghosts, 4 player pieces, 3 trap doors and keys to open those doors plus 3 card board box "pits" that fit under the doors that held "creepy" things. (feathers, plastic sticks and length rubber band's which represented "batwings" "bones" and "snakes" respectively.) To play, the game board, spinner and mini-ghosts had to sit out in the light several hours. Then, in a dark room, you'd set it up, dividing the 12 mini-ghosts between the 3 boxes, putting the boxes under the doors & distributing the keys among the 4 players.  The large ghost spinner clicked over a metal tab when yo...

      Today's writers prompt is, "Tell us about a wrong number where you either received a call in error or made one."  Once upon a time, quite a few years ago, I got a completely unexpected message on my cell phone from someone I didn't know about something I didn't know anything about. The message was this: "Hey, if you need a ride to the funeral, give me a call back." That was it. No name, nothing. I looked from my phone to my husband and told him the message said, then said, " "Looks like someone's going to be disappointed when they don't get a ride to the funeral."  ******* If you're interested in participating in our Thursday Writer's Prompt, visit here sometime posting is due on Thursday to choose your prompt.