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And Yet Even More Real life screwups! 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |Pg 1 | Pg 2 | Pg 3 | Pg 4 | Pg 5 | Pg 7 | Pg 8 | Pg 9 | Top of page 1) “Back when i was nine years old, i would go over to my friends house and i would ask him if his parents were home. When he told me they werent i would say, "Lets do this!" We undressed at least 40 barbies and turned up the techno. We called it The Naked Dance Party. We heard a car pull up and they came down and saw us dancing with 40 or so naked barbies with the techno roaring...we still get teased today." 2) I ran outside as quickly as I possibly could while trying to simultaneously wiggle into my jacket and jam my shoes onto my feet. Battling against the relentless wind, I stumbled through the open garage door and regained my balance by leaning on the bumpy beige surface of the freezer. Perched on top of the large rectangle was the reason I braved such a gusty day: my red plastic Mickey Mouse kite. Excitedly, I stood on my tiptoes and grabbed the flimsy flying device. I unwound the thin white string from the neon orange plastic handle and thrust the kite out the door, hoping the wind would catch it and send it soaring majestically into the sky. For the first half of its two-second flight, the delicate synthetic apparatus managed to fight valiantly against the fearsome force of the wind. Onward my kite struggled against its invisible foe, until finally it could endure no longer. Before my reflexes could save me from what was about to happen, the plastic tube of the kite’s frame had plunged into my unshielded eye. I shrieked in pain as I flung my wind-battered kite to the ground and rushed back into the house with my hands covering my eye. As I lurched through the door, I somehow managed to recount my tragic tale to my mother in a series of sobs. With soothing words and an ice pack pressed gently against my teary eye, she guided me into the car and took me to the hospital. The doctor informed us that I had just scratched my cornea, to which he prescribed a tube of thick, cloudy ointment that I was to apply to my eye wound twice a day until the tube was empty. Luckily, my eye healed quickly and I didn’t damage my vision, but my view of carefree childhood playtimes became clouded with the fear of another calamitous screw-up, thus prompting my parents to force me to wear safety glasses from then on when handling kites outside." Sarah 3) My Screw-Up Moment "Once upon a time I decided to be a daredevil and I jumped off my bed. As I jumped I realized it wasn't a good idea because I saw my black lamp on the floor. I landed feet first on the lamp and the bulb shattered and cut my feet open. I had to crawl down the stairs because I couldn't walk and my mom had to pull the pieces of glass that were stuck in my foot out. I had a lot of band-aids on my feet and it hurt to walk for about a week. I don't think I will ever be that stupid again and maybe look at what's on the floor when I jump off things." Brittany 4) "For my fifteenth birthday my mother and I decided to keep it fairly simple, just all my best friends and a lot of pizza. We decided to play a game of "Imagine If" so I ran upstairs to get the game. As I came down the stairs I noticed my abnormally long cat, Oliver, laying on one of the steps. To avoid disturbing his highness I took one large step. Being the spastic cat he is, he freaked and ran which caused me to lose my footing. I fell all the way down the stairs on my back. I only made things worse by trying to catch myself. I reached up and knocked over a huge glass picture frame. Sitting in the dinning room my friends had a perfect view of the steep wooden staircase and I could hear them in perfect unison say ooooh then burst into laughter at the clumsiness that was just like me." Elizabeth 5) 6) "It was a nice day out, especially to be by our swimming pool. So one day I decided to follow my cousin and brother on my tricycle circling the pool. Paul my cousin was on a 2-wheeler, and my brother Cord was on a tricycle as well. We had been circling the pool for quite a while and to my surprise I was in the deep end, of the pool, tricycle and all. As I was slowly sinking into the pool my dad had jumped in and grabbed me. He carefully set me onto the pavement and got a towel to dry off. I sat there and stared at my yellow tricycle laying at the bottom of the pool, ten feet below me." 7) " As a writer, you know what you want to write about. But, even the best writers have problems spelling sometimes. With me, it's the little words that screw me up. One day, during summer vacation, I was lying on my bed, writing a new adventure story. The first five pages were great, until that one stupid word screwed me up. "How do you spell murder?" I asked my sister, of course, she was on the floor, reading a book and listening to music. "M.u.r.d.e.r. idiot." I heard a voice mutter. "Thanks." I muttered back as I fixed my spelling. Now, spelling was never one of my stronger subjects, but that was sad. After I thanked the voice, my sister looked at me like i was crazy. "Who are you talking to?" "Didn't you just answer me?" "No." "Oh, great, that little voice in my head is talking to me again." "I thought that you weren't supposed to listen to them." "Well, this one has spell check. I got the final remark. It's still bad because I still listen to that voice (or sometimes the more than one), and sometimes it has good advice. Others, not so much." 8) "It was the end of one of marching band shows, and we were marching off the field. The drum line was playing our cadence, and all of a sudden my stick breaks. Everybody in the stands was laughing at me, it was so embarassing." 9) When I got there I was so shocked, and mad at myself. The team's socks were orange and mine were black! I stuck out like a sore thumb. My dad wasn't too happy to see the coach's son not have his whole uniform. Let's just say I didn't play too well either. The sock screw-up started a chain reaction of other screw-ups. And there went my ride home, because my dad didn't want to ride with me." Gaye 10) Luckily I had a pole in my hand to hit it right out of its trajectory path. Well when It got dark and the girls left we had nothing to do again so me and 6 other guys decided to keep throwing pops in. we never got a big explosion so we decided to get something bigger. We decided a big can of highly pressurized/flammable TAG would work. So we threw it in and all ran. Well there was a few crackles and nothing big so we where all disappointed.Well we just sat there talking for a little bit but still weren’t real close to the fire. Well as we got closer a friend went to it and poked the fire with the stick. “So much for that Idea right??” WRONG!!! As he started to walk away BOOOMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!! is all we could hear while seeing I giant ball of cloud and fire and ashes forming a mushroom cloud. It blew my friend right on his butt and all of us on the ground. But Evan and I just started crying of laughter on the ground, because despite being scary it was the funniest thing in the world. I even slapped him in the face I was laughing so hard! When we all recuperated we noticed neighbors lookin out their windows and all the back yard lights on. So we put out the fire as quickly as possible and decided it was the stupidest thing we could do EVER!!!
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