Comments on '642'Somewhere in Laredo is a building. One huge importers warehouse that has long sat vacant, at least in the legal sense. For in the shadows behind the wall of shipping crates is a makeshift home for two furtive vagabonds.
They've been there three weeks, amassing newspapers and trinkets rescued from dumpsters. The collection is beginning to attract the attention of passers-by. It's very difficult to sneak large objects into a building that isn't yours, of course. The locals' suspicion was first aroused when the men were seen smuggling four industrial-size washing machines through the gate in the middle of the night.
Most assume the men are compulsive hoarders. The armchair psychiatrists across the street have diagnosed the pair with no less than five mental disorders between them. And they're wrong.
Tonight six officers are raiding the building but they will find it empty, save for the smoldering remains of the vagabonds' toiletries and cardboard mattresses.
And a note for them:
_At last, we have built it._2008-06-04T12:33:12Zhttp://ficlets.com/feed/story/32945Comment on 642<p>@Eckhouse, I’m impressed with your cheese recognition skills. @uselessness, Cheesy or not I love the title.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/32945?basename=678802008-06-04T12:33:12Zthebetweenspacehttp://ficlets.com/authors/thebetweenspaceComment on 642<p>OH! Now I get it! Took me a minute there… heh… hmm <em>embarassed</em></p>http://ficlets.com/stories/32945?basename=678102008-06-04T01:26:11Zg2 (la pianista irlandesa)http://ficlets.com/authors/spanishpiano701Comment on 642<p>Either I’m wicked low on the age scale, or I just crawled out from under my rock, b/c I do <strong> NOT </strong> understand the title reference… no matter; still awesome bit. I sense add-on potential with this one! :-D But something involving washing machines?! This is going to keep me occupied for some time… someone could have a ton of fun leaping from that springboard.<br />Anywho, great job again!</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/32945?basename=678092008-06-04T01:24:49Zg2 (la pianista irlandesa)http://ficlets.com/authors/spanishpiano701Comment on 642<p>It takes cheese to recognize cheese, my friend.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/32945?basename=677022008-06-03T20:49:42ZEckhousehttp://ficlets.com/authors/eckhouseComment on 642<p>Eckhouse got it. I told you it was cheesy! ;-)<br />LoA</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/32945?basename=676952008-06-03T20:42:35Zuselessnesshttp://ficlets.com/authors/uselessnessComment on 642<p>I got it! You have to think like Prince – 6 men came 4 2 vagrants. Huh? Huh?</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/32945?basename=676822008-06-03T19:50:12ZEckhousehttp://ficlets.com/authors/eckhouseComment on 642<p>Really liked it, the numbers fit so well into it that I didn’t notice them until I re read. No idea about the title either.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/32945?basename=676642008-06-03T19:13:45ZRussell Ruffinohttp://ficlets.com/authors/ruffinoComment on 642<p>Haha, the title is a mystery, but the solution is <em>really cheesy</em>. I won’t spoil it for you. :-) And thanks for the kind words!<br />LoA</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/32945?basename=676532008-06-03T18:44:33Zuselessnesshttp://ficlets.com/authors/uselessnessComment on 642<p>Another great entry into the challenge that completely stands on its own. I still haven’t figured out the title, though. And it vexes me. ;)</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/32945?basename=676512008-06-03T18:36:59Zthebetweenspacehttp://ficlets.com/authors/thebetweenspaceComment on 642<p>Interesting little story with the possibility of alternate universes or some other nefarious plan involving washing machines. You did a very nice job of hiding the count. It was very subtle and fit into the story nicely.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/32945?basename=676392008-06-03T18:03:00ZJohn Perkinshttp://ficlets.com/authors/johnperkins21Comment on 642<p>Great ficlet, and like a few other entries, a solid stand-alone ficlet with or without the challenge. Took me a sec to catch the sequential use of numbers, very tricky! And I’m lost on the title too, unless it’s some obscure reference to what they’ve made. A literary allusion perhaps?</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/32945?basename=676272008-06-03T17:46:17ZTHX 0477http://ficlets.com/authors/thx_0477Comment on 642<p>Keep guessing… ;-)<br />LoA</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/32945?basename=676242008-06-03T17:40:50Zuselessnesshttp://ficlets.com/authors/uselessnessComment on 642<p>Building 642?<br />Loved the ficlet Uselessness-nessness!</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/32945?basename=676232008-06-03T17:38:06ZALRO613 ♪ LoA ♫http://ficlets.com/authors/alro613Comment on 642<p>Awesome ficlet. You have a keen ability to mix the bizarre with the dramatic. Though me, being slow, I’m still trying to figure out the title…</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/32945?basename=676212008-06-03T17:32:53ZEckhousehttp://ficlets.com/authors/eckhouse