Words Matter, a freewrite

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"I'll have a pop."

You want me to pop you one?"

"No! I need a pop!"

Yeah, I agree. The painting needs a bit more color to make it pop."

"No! A pop! A pop! I must have a pop!"

Just then, a small bomb detonated somewhere in the museum. Security had been watching these two since they walked in, since one of them was dressed in camouflage and smelled strongly of pine trees. When their talk turned to pops, security became doubly interested. Immediately after the explosion, they were both thrown to the floor, handcuffed, and dragged to a small cubicle in the basement.

Hours later, they were offered coffee, water, or soda.

"Yes, PLEASE. I am desperate for a pop."

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This is my entry to @mariannewest's daily freewrite challenge. Today's prompt is soda pop.

I grew up in hillbilly country. When I went to college, I was ridiculed the first time I asked for a pop. No one knew what I meant.



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Here we call sodas 'minerals' and to have a pop at someone is to criticise or mock them.

I guess it's a good thing I don't drink soda, or I would be lost in most places.
Minerals?! I don't see how soda could possibly be called minerals.

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I don't see how soda could possibly be called mineral

Apparently, the original sodas were made with mineral water and sold in pharmacies.

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Right back at ya!

#ihatetags, hahaha, love it. It took me many years to know what a hashtag was and how to use it, it is like saying pop, a tag is something that you played as a child or it is something sewn to clothes or to mark the price of things. LOL
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My Uncle used to work in a circus as a human cannonball.
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Gotta love a reader who even reads my tags!!!

LOVE IT - #ihatetags
I hate tags
I hate hashtags
I love hash
Not hashtags
Pop! goes the hashtag...

Oh I love this! Where was I, 13 days ago, that I missed it....
This: one of them was dressed in camouflage and smelled strongly of pine trees.
You always have us wondering, and guessing, and laughing!
In a museum.
I'm glad they didn't splash tomato soup all over the Mona Lisa.
What is wrong with these protestors and their methods