Countdown Word Challenge

 This is not one of my normal blog posts . This is my attempt at the Countdown Word Challenge started by @miblodelcarpio . The object of the game is to write a story or article and include all the words from the days Countdown TV programme  at least once . This is my story using all the following words :

            Panties ; Hanged ; Sounds ; mouse ; pleating ; wearing ; love ; quotes ; looter ; borders .


 Tom looked out of his kitchen window and sighed . He gazed over his herbaceous borders into next doors garden . There was his 15yr old son , Josh , leaning up against his bicycle , laughing and joking with the neighbour and his son . Since the new neighbours had moved in 3 months ago , Josh had become best friends with the boy, Tyson and hero worshipped Tysons father , Wayne . Tom sighed again and went out of the back door to put the rubbish in the dustbin ,
 " Hey there mate , hows it hanging ?  "  Wayne shouted , " Still preaching peace and love , are ya ? "   and  Josh and Tyson laughed and jeered . Tom smiled a weary smile and went indoors again .He felt he was losing his son as Josh had turned from a kind , thoughtful boy into a carbon copy of Wayne  ........ a rough, tough , macho , rascist , homophobic bully . Josh was always coming out with the latest bigotted quotes from Wayne and Tyson . What was the latest comment ? .... Oh yes ,  " A looter should be hanged  ! " Charming  !  Tom wondered where he had gone wrong .  His job as a Social Worker  meant that he came into contact with many different religions , backgrounds , nationalities and  " persuasions " and he believed that everyone should be treated with respect .  He and his late wife had tried to instill the same values in Josh and the youngster had known nothing but love and comfort . Why on earth was Josh hero worshipping that monster next door , who delighted in telling tales of his exploits in his job as a security guard at the local Mall  ?  These tales always involved some sort of violence  and rascist comments . Tales of beating up anyone who didnt conform .  Persecution  of anyone that was different .   There and then Tom resolved to have it out with Josh , before it was too late .

 That evening when Josh came home for his tea , Tom began his lecture . How Wayne was a bad influence , how Waynes ideas were wrong  and why he didnt want Josh to hang around next door anymore . Josh reacted furiously ,
 " You are trying to ruin my life " he yelled , " I will do what I want ! Wayne is great , hes  not a hypocrite like you  ! He practises what he preaches , hes tough and wont take shit from anyone !  I want to be just like him  ! You say we should be tolerant  but  then you say I shouldnt go round there  ! You are just a bloody hypocrite !! "   Then he stamped out of the room , slamming the door behind him .

 The rest of the evening was spent in uneasy silence . Tom read the newspaper in the sitting room while Josh stayed up in his bedroom , sulking as only a 15yr old can . They stayed this way till bedtime .  They had both been asleep for hours when Tom woke to the sounds of scratching and scrabbling in the hall downstairs  , " Bloody cat " he thought and pulled the duvet round his shoulders . Then there was a crash and he knew it was the crystal vase on the hall table .  Leaping out of bed , he met Josh on the landing ,  " Tiddles has a mouse " , Josh said  and at that Tiddles pounced on his prey .  The two ran downstairs but it was too   late for the poor mouse , who lay lifeless on the hall carpet .  They both began to pick up the broken glass and Josh fetched a dustpan and brush .

 They were both wide awake by now , on their hands and knees in the hallway . Tom stood up and said  " How about you put all this in the dustbin and I'll put the kettle on ? "    He wandered into the kitchen  , the clock said 2am and it was black outside except for the glow of light from nextdoors kichen window and back door . Josh came through  with the glass and the dead mouse , all wrapped in newspaper and shoved into a carrier bag and opened the backdoor to go to the dustbin . Tom peered , absentmindedly out of the kitchen window as he filled the kettle  ............ And so it was that they were both greeted by the sight of Wayne , standing by his open back door , smoking a cigarette in a long tortoiseshell holder , wearing fishnet stockings , red lacey panties and silk camisole with lace pleating round the neckline .

                   Josh just stood and stared but Tom walked into the living room , smiling .
                                          
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