Words have different meanings depending on the setting. This adorable sign would probably have an entirely different meaning if placed in the downtown district of a busy city. However, this particular sign is placed on the side of a country route in a small town. And it means exactly what it says – pick up your chicks here. The soft, fuzzy, yellow pets sold at a country feed store to parents wanting to surprise their children at Easter.
I do love the marketing appeal from the sign and I giggle every time I drive past it. But it is a reminder to me how setting really does have a major part in our stories.
How do you develop setting for your story?
How do you weave appropriate description without becoming boring?
Remember, we must choose our words carefully. 😉
And the sad part is… I completely knew what this meant without an explanation. Perhaps because I raise chickens. 🙂
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Comment by Pegg Thomas — April 11, 2012
Oh Pegg, thanks for the laugh! Only us country folk would understand these things. Though when they first put the sign out I had to look twice…
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Comment by admin — April 11, 2012
It seems like life “up North” would be so different from where I am “down South”- but this scene looks like something I could see tooling around the rural Tennessee backroads! Cynthia, I so love reading your views on the world around you. Delightful!! — keep ’em coming (p.s. I love chicks and chickens – can’t wait to have some of my own!)
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Comment by Connie Clyburn — April 12, 2012
Connie,
This is actually close to where you turn on to our road. So I pass by it a lot and it still makes me laugh! Hope to see you soon…
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Comment by admin — April 12, 2012