Sharpen Your Pencils! Story time:)

[imaginethat]

This is a fun thread. We are going to write a story. I will start it and we can add on. The add ons must be two sentences long. (I am not really strict about that so just add your two cents worth and carry on :) ok....here is the opening...(a twist on "Catcher In The Rye's" first lines...

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is all about me and where I am from, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. So I am going to the store for some pop, bread and chips. I park near the cart bin and search for my list. I look at the signs to see which aisle I am in, which I won't remember when I come out anyway, and then I see Mrs Hiebel. She is my neighbor. My nosey neighbor. How can a body hide from their neighbor? So I_______

[Julia A Knaake]

bend my body down lower and lower until I am at the bottom shelf where the store brand bags of beans are displayed.

I stay there pretending to study the recipes printed on the back of the bag when I see the overly inquisitive of everyone else's business neighbor turn her cart down the opposite aisle I am in so I immediately__________

[imaginethat]

then I see a trail of grapes leading to this kid standing there with a bag of cheese nips and grapes in his hand. " mom, get oreos and "chocolate milk"   I'm hungry!"  I hear feet running and that brat heading up Mrs. Hiebel's aisle. The manager______

[imaginethat]

snatches him up by the coat. The kid's Mother stood motionless and for a split second considered running the other way and denying any relationship at all with the little alien in a blue coat. Instinct set in and she flapped her purse against the managers noggin. Thunk! It sounded hollow enough.....she had heard that sound often enough when testing for a ripe watermelon. The intercom was playing "Get Back". Oddly, some guy was playing air guitar and in mid-jam session, he exclaimed ____________

[Julia A Knaake]

Vous enfant gâté que ta mère ne vous enseigner les manières crié Mme Hiebel à haute voix *

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*You spoiled child did your mother never teach you manners screamed Mrs. Hiebel in a loud voice

[imaginethat]

(Thank you for the french Julia! How cool is that!)

She took him by the hand and marched him up the aisle. His face had become contorted and he dragged his feet, half hopped and fell into submission as she waited at the front of the store for his embarrassed mother and grateful manager to conclude this episode of stupidity. The guy who was playing air guitar whisked by and as an aside, whispered to the kid, "You can't always get what you want" and winked as he said "Mick Jagger, man"....Then_______