Rattle is the prompt from https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2025/04/20/sundays-six-sentence-story-word-prompt-363/
Some older people love to tease.
They call it rattling the other person’s chain.
As the chain is the weakest link that disturbs the person’s static.
The winner is not the rattler.
Rather, the winner is the resistor.
Because s/he refuses to be rattled.
The End.
Good one.
not bad, yo*
*a compliment… not having any particular skill in the writing of pomes, we’re reduced to simple ‘yeah, ok. I enjoyed that.’
Good point that the winner is the one who refuses to be rattled.
Nicely said! Yes, refuse to be rattled, or at least to let them know.
Rattle me not! Nice one.
Simply, and poetically put, so true!