Smoke Break

An everyday conversation

Tony Atkinson
The Curmudgeon
Published in
4 min readMar 6, 2022

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Photo by Stephen Hocking on Unsplash

“All right?”

“Not so bad. You?”

“Surviving.”

“Not so cold today.”

“At least it’s dry. How’s the wife and kids?”

“Driving me up the wall. Jan says to me yesterday ‘You know I can still fit into my wedding dress?’ I says ‘If you want to get married again, I’ll give you away!’”

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Tony Atkinson
The Curmudgeon

Snapper-up of unconsidered trifles, walker of paths less travelled by. Writer of fanfiction. Player of games. argonaut57@gmail.com