Sunday Photo Fiction — Just Bagpipes

Fandango

47315682-8671-48B9-90F7-731F29684E00“Do you sell kilts?” the man asked.

“No, sir, just bagpipes,” the man behind the table responded.

“How about tartan scarves?” another prospective customer asked.

“Just bagpipes, ma’am.”

A man walked up to the proprietor and said, “I’m looking for a Scottish sporran, but I don’t see any on display.”

“That’s because we make and sell bagpipes,” he said, pointing to the banner behind him.

A lady with a perplexed look on her face asked, “Scottish clan tumblers?”

“Sorry, lady, our specialty is bagpipes,” the man answered. “Only bagpipes.”

The next customer explained that he used to have a pewter hip flask with an engraved Scottish piper on it. “I don’t suppose you have one of those, do you?” he asked.

The guy manning the booth finally lost it. He threw down his water bottle and started to shout. “What the fook is wrong with you fooking people? I am a bagpipe maker. I make and sell bagpipes. Not kilts, not scarves, not tumblers, not sporrans, not flasks. Just bagpipes. Only bagpipes. Can’t you fookers read?”

And with that, the guy told everyone to get out of his booth. “I’m done,” he shouted, and started packing up his bagpipes.

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Written for Susan Spaulding’s Sunday Photo Fiction prompt. Photo credit: C.E. Ayr.

14 thoughts on “Sunday Photo Fiction — Just Bagpipes”

    • ceayr September 11, 2018 / 1:19 pm

      Because haggis is the best food in the world?

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  3. Iain Kelly September 9, 2018 / 2:29 pm

    Yeah, but it’s difficult to fit souvenir bagpipes into the suitcase for the flight home 🙂

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  4. Susan September 9, 2018 / 3:05 pm

    Me thinks he needs a lesson in customer service, Fandango. Or maybe he should expand his inventory. Loved the ‘fook’.

    Susan

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  5. Sight11 September 9, 2018 / 4:56 pm

    I think his customers were mostly teenagers, who were successful in pissing him off..

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  6. michael1148humphris September 10, 2018 / 2:03 am

    Sounds like he could have made a mint, if he had just taken along some Scottish fridge magnets. 😉

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  7. Abhijit Ray September 10, 2018 / 5:43 am

    He has reason to be angry. My sympathies. No one asked about bag pipes!

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