September 7: Flash Fiction Challenge
Silvio the waiter moved from table to table taking customer’s orders and answering their many questions about the menu. He then ran back to the kitchen, quickly arranged various plates of food onto a serving tray, and ran back out with the tray on his upturned palm. He adroitly sidestepped other servers and bussers on his way to table.
“Waiter!” an obnoxious customer screeched.
Silvio halted and looked down at the customer contemptuously.
“What’s this fly doing in my soup?” the customer demanded as he pointed down at his soup bowl.
Silvio glanced down at the bowl. “The backstroke!”
Robert Kirkendall 
Haha. Good retort from the waiter.
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It’s an old joke, but still funny 😀
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LOL, Thanks for the laugh.
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You’re welcome 🙂
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Ha, ha! That’s a brilliant revival of an old joke. Love how you wove it into a flash about a busy waiter named Silvio!
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Thank you, glad you like it 🙂
Not sure why I chose the name Silvio, but it seems to fit.
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It has a nice intonation.
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Also the name of a Bob Dylan song, one of the few of his original songs to be written by another songwriter (Robert Hunter). A nice, catchy up tempo song.
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A-ha! That is a great song. Haven’t heard it in a long time!
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Lol haven’t heard that one!
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I wasn’t expecting that last part. 😂
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Glad you liked it! It’s an old Borscht Belt joke, I “borrowed” it.
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