Poor Mrs Dumpty. Suddenly, I no longer feel sorry for poor, accident-prone Humpty – he’s a reckless, selfish egg! His sense of familial commitment is positively scrambled!

Good work, even if I can’t quite see where the wall or the King’s men might come into this… MH :)

Kind of absurd, and the reference to Humpty Dumpty seemed unnecessary to me. Was it part of the challenge?
Minor edit: You’ve got him walking around the table to his companion (singular) and sitting by them (plural). Otherwise a funny idea, this guy with big plans and no common sense or appreciation for just living.

@MH: Thought about that but I was mainly thinking about how he couldn’t be put back together again. So I thought getting blown up was a pretty decent idea to me.

@THX: I only referenced it because as MH said i didn’t really focus on all parts of the rhyme. So i had it in there so you knew who it was about and how it would definitely end (though the story did imply that anyway). I’ll try with those minor edits tomorrow. The main reason I said “them” is because i wanted to save the fact the his friend was really a woman / his wife til the very end.

Interesting and humorous, but can’t really be construed as the truth behind an 1800’s riddle – which greatly lessens the effect, at least for me. A more neutral time setting, or a more time-fitting scenario would take care of that.

Entertaining story though.