Fantastic
When Uncle Wrinkle woke up he was gobsmacked by what he saw.
He stood at the window and couldn’t believe what he was seeing.
“This is fantastic,” he said many times over.
Uncle Wrinkle had been asleep for fifty years and upon waking wanted to know who had won the grand final. We looked in amazement at him as no one remembered the 1968 grand final in fact most the family gathered round his bed weren’t even born then.
Uncle Wrinkle looked around his room and was immediately transfixed by the television on the wall.
There was a lot of explaining to do and a lot of news to convey like the death of his parents, his eldest brother passing away and his girlfriend at the time marrying someone else and having five children.
In the following days Uncle Wrinkle learned so much and sat for a long time looking out the window at the hurrying world. He was now seventy-eight years old. The family had registered him for the old age pension and they paid him from when he was sixty-five so he had a healthy sum to start with.
“Money!” he said, “fantastic I have some but I’d rather have someone I remember with me.”
Written for: https://lindaghill.com/2018/01/29/jusjojan-daily-prompt-january-29th-2018/
Morpethroad 
I can imagine that. Money is OK I guess, but love is better and you need someone to share it.
Yes don’t I know that
🙂 I don’t think I’d like to sleep for 50 years and when I wake up find everyone I know has gone.
I agree, its the same issue you’d face if they froze you and then brought you back….you’d be a foreigner so to speak….
Did you see the Mel Gibson film Forever Young? That had a similar theme.
Of course the classic for waking up years later is the OTT Demolition Man (Stallone and Wesley Snipes with a very young Sandra Bullock) which is so funny!
Yes I’ve seen both, Demolition Man I agree was good fun.
Money can’t by me love 🎶🎵🎶
So true, thanks for stopping by Jill.
1968? I remember it well. Souths beat Manly 13-9. I was born in Manly. We are notoriously bad losers.
Well I knew it wasn’t St. George. Manly supporter eh? Yes I know you hate losing. As a Knights supporter we are used to it.
Very poignant 🌹
Thanks willow