essay on why juju is banned from going door to door with b trying to sell seeds.
i'm so silly, i thought ju bringing her box of stuff - literally junk, (a piece of yarn she had been playing with, 3 rubber bands, a pencil, small pad of paper, several pages of copy paper, little toys, jacked up slinky), would be cute. she just wanted to be like her big brother and make some money.
b could not have been more embarrassed. when she tried to shimmy in front of him at the first door he was mortified. he kept elbowing her to get back, he is selling flower seeds so he can go to science camp after all!!
i still thought it was funny that she would stand next to b with her shoe box open, displaying her wares - no takers, funny that was...
this is where the fun begins - if you are not, ju, b or me. bottom of our 2nd street; i put a seed pod from a lantern tree (she can sell people the seeds from their own front yards!) in her box; one house later - shrieks, screams, throwing of the box; not too surprising, she could be board already, she does tend to wear her heart on her sleeve. b kindly went back for the box, i opened it to see a dozen red bugs scurrying around. too bad it's not trash day, i would pitch the entire thing, that would be too easy. i take all the treasures out, dump the 'bloody, red, bitting, poisonous, bugs' (ju's new name for them) out and give the box back.
because she is so creeped out she, takes forever walking, because she has to investigate each doorway for new frightening insects.
as soon as she forgot about the bugs, she found new confidence to interact with people at the doorstep - much to the dismay of her older brother!
top three embarrassing instances : crawling around 'michami's' house like a freakin' cat. telling a girl she had dirty knees (they just needed a little lotion). and plugging her nose and making yucky faces because she didn't like the smell from someones house - while b was still talking to them!
after writing all that i have just realized this might be the cosmos at work... could it be that b is getting a taste of his own medicine - the pleas to "stop, don't, quit and you're making me crazy!" falling on deaf ears. i think i just saw a circle complete itself.
all in all, ju is a crazy character, there's never a dull moment. at least we had a good laugh.
maybe we'll sell lotion and air freshener next time.
i'm so silly, i thought ju bringing her box of stuff - literally junk, (a piece of yarn she had been playing with, 3 rubber bands, a pencil, small pad of paper, several pages of copy paper, little toys, jacked up slinky), would be cute. she just wanted to be like her big brother and make some money.
b could not have been more embarrassed. when she tried to shimmy in front of him at the first door he was mortified. he kept elbowing her to get back, he is selling flower seeds so he can go to science camp after all!!
i still thought it was funny that she would stand next to b with her shoe box open, displaying her wares - no takers, funny that was...
this is where the fun begins - if you are not, ju, b or me. bottom of our 2nd street; i put a seed pod from a lantern tree (she can sell people the seeds from their own front yards!) in her box; one house later - shrieks, screams, throwing of the box; not too surprising, she could be board already, she does tend to wear her heart on her sleeve. b kindly went back for the box, i opened it to see a dozen red bugs scurrying around. too bad it's not trash day, i would pitch the entire thing, that would be too easy. i take all the treasures out, dump the 'bloody, red, bitting, poisonous, bugs' (ju's new name for them) out and give the box back.
because she is so creeped out she, takes forever walking, because she has to investigate each doorway for new frightening insects.
as soon as she forgot about the bugs, she found new confidence to interact with people at the doorstep - much to the dismay of her older brother!
top three embarrassing instances : crawling around 'michami's' house like a freakin' cat. telling a girl she had dirty knees (they just needed a little lotion). and plugging her nose and making yucky faces because she didn't like the smell from someones house - while b was still talking to them!
after writing all that i have just realized this might be the cosmos at work... could it be that b is getting a taste of his own medicine - the pleas to "stop, don't, quit and you're making me crazy!" falling on deaf ears. i think i just saw a circle complete itself.
all in all, ju is a crazy character, there's never a dull moment. at least we had a good laugh.
maybe we'll sell lotion and air freshener next time.
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