I left a bowl of cucumbers on a folding table alongside a sign reading “Free.” Someone took the table but left the cukes.
New strategy: I try car doors until I find one unlocked. Surreptitiously, I deposit the produce onto the front seat, shut the door, and walk quickly away.
Elizabeth Barton has been making stuff up for most of her life. A day job as a medical writer pays the bills, but her true passion is fiction. Her work has appeared in Gemini Magazine, Skirt!, and Prime Number Magazine, among other journals and anthologies. She loves cats, ice cream, Halloween, and Hungarian aggressive piglet jokes.
Omg we have way too many cucumbers and don’t know what to do with them. I had just said to a friend that I wanted to put them out at the top of the driveway but was afraid someone would take my table. I laughed so hard at this story. My new ploy was to demand all visitors to our home left with a bag of cukes, but I kinda like your strategy.