When You’re Rich You Have No Need to Worry
Today’s random word is: POSH
The story must start with: Uncovering my family’s pictures was a shock.
Uncovering my family’s pictures was a shock. There they were, dressed up to the nines, hob-knobbing with the rich as they travelled to and from India.
In those days people like us didn’t travel far. Oh we’d have the odd week by the sea, freezing our backsides off, pretending to have fun, but that was it!
And now I see we had a subset of monied relatives.
“We’re officially POSH,” they said excitedly.
“Posh?”
“Stands for, port out, starboard home, which now means we travel to India and back in the cooler cabins of the Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
Note: This POSH way of travel is hotly-debated by those in the know. Still, money has always bought preferential treatment, so ...
If you’re not already on board with writing drabbles, (short, 100-word stories, no more, no less,) do yourself a favour. Get stuck in! They are a lot of fun to write, but also serve as a lesson in tight writing, given the 100-word constraint.
