One Perfect Sentence - The Jaunty July Challenge

[Hannah Faoileán]

Inspired by something I read while on holiday (I'll divulge at the results), the Jaunty July Challenge requires you to start your sentence with:

We didn't inherit . . .


The rules are simple:

• Each entry must be ONE sentence only, as defined by the basic rules of English grammar. We will notice if you squeeze unrelated clauses together and pretend it's a sentence, so please don't do it. Your entry will be disqualified and removed.

• Don’t comment on other people's entries – this makes the thread far less readable. If you’d like to make a comment – or if you have a question – then please do so in Café Life, using the “One Perfect Sentence” prefix. I will keep checking the thread to answer any questions. If you have a question you don't want others to read, please private message me directly.

• You can make as many entries as you want to, (new addition) but only your entry with the greatest number of votes will win a place (and litbits).

• IMPORTANT: Due to a technical hitch that has erased the anonymous option, for one month only your name will appear with your entry.

Voting will open later this month.

Good luck and get writing!

 

[mickleinapickle]

“We didn’t inherit Colonel Blenkinsop’s old blunderbuss so that you could ‘accidently discharge’ a full barrel of buckshot at the president’s fat ass,” he gasped as we hightailed along the freeway with an army of secret service agents in hot pursuit.

 

[Sedayne]

We didn't inherit the earth, but perhaps we weren't meek enough, and maybe there was nothing left worth inheriting.

 

[James Charles]

We didn't inherit the wind, but so many have certainly passed it!

 

[Jodes]

Are we meant to post anonymously @Hannah Faoileán ? I can't see the button.

 

[Jonny]

We didn't inherit anything other than an empty tub of margarine and a ball of string, but we were still happy and counted ourselves extremely fortunate.

 

[Hannah Faoileán]

"WE didn't inherit Mum's estate," she said, her gun pointing directly (and rather alarmingly) at my heart . . .

 

[Jodes]

We didn't inherit the house, but the paperweight will come in handy.

 

[Jodes]

We didn't inherit our father's intelligence, which is a shame given that we did inherit his lust for larceny.

 

[Jodes]

We didn't inherit anything of worldly value - a house, savings, a key to a secret safe full of money - but the man in her closet, with black tape over his mouth, wide eyes, and hands and feet tied, meant we'd inherited a whole lot of trouble.

 

[Anonymous]

Is this anonymous...?

 

[Anonymous]

This is also anonymous