Bethany's bathtub

Bethany was laying down in the tub. She watched as she raised her foot (which was starting to turn into a giant raisin) out of the water and plopped it back in, making the bubbles in her water make little popping noises. Then came the bad news, the doorknob clicked as it opened. And in it came. It was furry, it was huge, it was pink with Hawaiian flowers! Bethany closed her eyes tightly. The thing spoke.

"Bethany, it's time to get out of the tub."

Bethany stood up, reaching for the towel. "Ok, Mom. You can unplug the bathtub, and I'll get dried off."


Mom snatched the towel away, cruelly. "Bethany, be a big girl and unplug it yourself. I've done it for five years, it's your turn now."

"I think I want to stay in the tub a little longer."

Mom gave Bethany the evil 'someday-when-you-have-kids-and-they-give-you-a -had-time-I-will-laugh-in-your-face' look. She stuck a finger in the tub. "Bethany, you've been in here for almost an hour. The water's freezing. Come on, get out."

"No!" Bethany was ready to cry. She was too scared to unplug the tub. When you unplug the tub, you go down, down, down the drain with the rest of the water. Bethany had never witnessed this happen before, but she'd heard about it from her older brother.


Mom gave Bethany another look. But this time it was the deadly 'If-you-don't-start-cooperating-right now...' look. Mom never finished that phrase. She didn't have to, Bethany knew what she meant.

Mom started tapping her foot.

Bethany squeezed her eyes shut. A few tears slid down her cheek as she slipped her hand into the water. She yanked it back out. "I can' do it!"

Mom wasn't being merciful today. Her foot continued to tap, and the deadly look was still on her face.

Bethany started screaming and crying. Mom didn't even move-except for her eyebrow. She was doing the eyebrow-cock.

Finally, Bethany reached her hand down to the plug and was promptly sucked sown the drain without another trace.

"Bethany, stop crying. Just do it." Mom reached over and grabbed Bethany's hand, guiding it toward the drain.

Without any other choice, Bethany unplugged the drain all by herself and was promptly not sucked down the drain!
From then on, Bethany was never afraid of unplugging anything. She always remembered how brave she had been that day and it helped her never to be scared!
Until the day she had to take her first shower...but that's another story.

There is an analogy in that story so whoever can guess the correct one gets a post written for them. My next post will explain the analogy if no one can get it.
Jocelberry

Have you seen it?

Hello, the few people who read my blog!

Maybe you can help me find something. I lost it, and couldn't find it. Maybe I was just too busy to find it. But I somehow or other, I lost it.

MISSING: Have you seen Summer? If you have, please contact me and leave a comment.

That's right. I lost my summer. Summer ran away, leaving behind it a schooless and very extremely busy world. I don't exactly know why it ran away, though I think it was because it took one look at my mom's calender and ran away screaming.

And was never seen since.

Though I did do some very fun things like go to California, work VBS (discussed in one of my previous posts), and get my ears pierced, it would've been nice to have Summer with me to share in the excitement. Summer is always so good at helping me relax.

But Summer will not be so greatly missed because Fall is here now.

Fall keeps me busy enough that I wont miss Summer quite so much.

Here are some pictures of my not- Summer