This week’s picture for #writephoto prompt is
‘Where’s Poseidon?’
‘Getting the ice creams. Oh and Neptune’s bucket has a hole in it so Poseidon said he’d see if they have another.’
‘Did you tell him it must be blue? You know how Neptune gets if it’s not blue.’
‘Maybe if you didn’t pander to him so much…’
‘He’s a sodding god, so…’
‘That’s as maybe, but it wouldn’t hurt if he was less of a princess while he was being godly.’
‘And you’re going to tell him, are you?’
‘Poseidon doesn’t make a fuss. Not about the small stuff.’
‘It’s not the same for him. He’s Greek.’
‘So?’
‘The Greeks came first. Neptune’s always been in his shadow. That and the horses.’
‘They’re not still fighting about that, are they?’
‘You should have heard Neptune kick off the other day when they had to judge the gymkhana. “Why’d you agree to be the god of these beasts? They’re bloody dreadful.”’
‘I bet that went down well.’
‘Yes, well, Poseidon isn’t the god of storms and not able to create the odd maelstrom. Made an awful mess of the jam and condiments tent. Mrs Hunter-Dunne was beyond pissed. Made him stand in the corner. One of the scouts felt-tipped his winkie so it looked like a cigar. Took me an age and a bowlful of ambrosia to calm him down. Mind you I’m not sure Mrs Hunter-Dunne will be making much more jam. It looked a little like she’d been set.’
‘Maybe we could ask Zeus…’
‘He’s doing his taxes. Really not a good time.’
‘Jupiter?’
‘His in laws are staying over.’
‘Apollo?’
‘Painting his temple.’
‘We could ask Persephone to whisper sweet nothings…’
‘It’s her time of the month.’
‘I don’t suppose we could ask Pallas Athena to intercede…’
‘If you want another bloody flood. The bedding is only now drying out. No, let’s hope he gets a blue bucket and vanilla ice creams.’
‘Vanilla! Didn’t you tell him?’
‘He doesn’t like Vanilla?’
‘Nectar, ambrosia at a pinch. But plain vanilla for a god?’
‘Oh dear.’
‘Time for a cuppa?’
‘Why not?’
‘We can rebuild the coastline this afternoon.’
TanGental 
So many egos have been upset through the sands of time!
LikeLiked by 1 person
There must be a repository somewhere for broken and decrepit egos. I wonder if they are repurposed, maybe ground down and made into confidence boosting poultices for the serially introverted?
LikeLiked by 1 person
I’ll have to look online to see if I can source them.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Indeed. Amazon will surely cater for such obvious needs. I which department
LikeLiked by 1 person
This is utterly brilliant.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Oh thank you. Good to know those wretched gods suffer the same jealousies and stupidities we do…
LikeLiked by 1 person
Loved it. 😁
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you. I just wanted to humanise the little darlings
LikeLiked by 1 person
And you did.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Who knew Gods were so dang human! Time of the month…?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Is that not an expression that travels across the pond?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Oh yes, it does. It’s just hard to imagine a Goddess having to deal with it! 🙂 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Ah well, I think it is important to empathise with gods and their trials and tributaries
LikeLiked by 1 person
Zeus does his own taxes?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Of course the IRS don’t make any deity exemptions
LikeLike
Simply hilarious, Geoff. Happy Monday.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Have a delicious week. Its raining here just now so summer is getting under way!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Ah yes, I remember, the UK is a wet and overpopulated island (haha!)
LikeLiked by 1 person
Statistically no, but you tell that to anyone in Oxford Street tube on a mizzly Wednesday…
LikeLiked by 1 person
I never saw the appeal to worshiping such human-like beings as gods. It’s got to be like a soap opera all the time.
LikeLiked by 1 person
No quite. Mind you Gods in all forms are a gift to fantasy and comedy writers everywhere. If humans hadn’t made them up then well, you couldn’t make them up. I suspect we may have to agree to disagree on that last sentence in respect of at least one god.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes, well, I specifically meant the soap opera of the Parthenon.
LikeLiked by 1 person
That could indeed be a Netflix banker…
LikeLiked by 1 person
I meant pantheon. Sheesh; try reading a phone with a squirmy baby sometime…
LikeLiked by 1 person
I think I’m beyond squirmy babies but then I get threatened with grandchildren!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I love this one. Neptune and Poseidon fighting. Priceless.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Gods will be gods…
LikeLike
WordPress keep on telling me that sites where I’m posting can’t be reached. I have to then rewrite the reply (a pain if it’s long) and hit Post again. It happens when I first post, but usually ok afterwards. This time it did it both for my original reply and this one. What’s going on? Is anyone else having the same problem? It happens with both my tablet and my pc.
Or has WordPress ‘improved’ their site again? Have they not heard ‘If it ain’t broke don’t fix it’?
LikeLiked by 1 person
I’ve not heard anyone else with this specific problem. I have some issues with my ipad telling me I’ve duplicated a comment or requiring me to log on when I already am but thr comments do seem to get posted.
LikeLike
Mine has done that in the past. Upgrading my phone and the version of internet browser I was using helped those issues. It has more to do with permissions regarding cookies and browsing data than WP specifically -although the way they choose to program their website obviously makes the site better or worse at working with different browsers and different versions of browsers.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Trouble at mill!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Pingback: #Writephoto Round-Up – Bucket – New2Writing
Haha! I love it. I wrote something similar about Neptune and Poseidon last year, I think they definitely squabble. Mine started when Neptune made fun of Poseidon’s fork – lol. Thank you so much for joining in with #writephoto. KL ❤
LikeLiked by 1 person
That’s v good. I should have seen that opportunity.
LikeLiked by 1 person