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Spring break 2016 on a warm sunny day I was at my best friend Lexi’s beach house at Topsail Island. Lexi and I were decently far from land sitting on boogie boards in the ocean. The waves were humongous so of course we were trying to get over the waves before they crashed. After a good hour of riding over the waves we realized the waves weren't as big and fun to try and avoid, we decided the best way to fix this was to annoy the ocean by singing a song with our awful voices. We decided to sing “Do Re Mi” from The Sound Of Music because we had listened to it a few weeks before in ELA. As we laughed at each other while singing the song we turned to see the biggest wave I've ever seen. We kicked with all our might to get over the enormous wave before it crashed, I looked up and realized it was too late. I felt myself being thrashed under the water flipping and spinning without any air until my body slammed into a fleshy object. I quickly arose realizing I could touch the sand, I was trying to find where Lexi was when I saw a set of eyes pop out of the water beside me. As I screamed with fear Lexi arose from the water laughing, as we talked about how fun that was we later realized we had ended up bumping into each other. That was the most fun day we had at the beach that week

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One time when I was about 4 nobody was watching me at the time. I ended up sitting on the stairs. When I was 4 nobody ever really paid that much attention to me so it was pointless to be with an adult if they didn’t pay attention to me. I ended up finding something on the stairs while I was sitting there since I start to look for things when I get bored. I found a dead bug on the corner of the stairs. It looked like it was dead for a while. It ended up in my mouth. I have always wanted to know what kind of bug it was ever since I was told that I ate one. My mom said that she wishes she could have gotten it on video so that she could show me now eating the bug. It is sad that she didn’t stop me from eating it, she just walked up and saw me pick it up. All she had to do was say don’t eat it. Looking back on it now it was more gross rather than funny though to be honest. It is just nasty that I would even do that no matter how old I am. It is still not okay. It makes me wonder what other weird stuff I did when I was growing up. There were probably a lot of weird stuff that I don’t know about and I really don’t want to know about them either.

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So one day I was at my house and my brother, a strange boy who you can never tell what he is going to do next, decided that he wanted to take my dogs for a walk. I had finished all my homework so I decided to go with. Now two out of my three dogs are good dogs who usually do what they are told, but the other one, Kimba not so much. Of coarse, Kimba is my brothers favorite, so he just had to be holding his leash. We get outside it’s a warm, but not hot summer day. You can hear birds chirping and squirrels ticking and Kimba running at the ticking squirrels, the other two dogs are also able to break away chase after kimba, because they just love a good adventure. Of course there’s lots of other people in our neighborhood, enjoying the nice day with their pets that my dogs think would make great friends so they have to meet them. But my dogs already know that they are friends with me so when I approach them, they run away. They are big dogs and very fit also, so it isn’t very easy to catch up with them, but when they see a squirrel, you know they aren’t coming home until they have a dead rodent in their jaws. They chase that squirrel for a while until they see it. The most beautiful dog in the neighborhood, they have to befriend her! She's such a good girl. Her owner is also a good girl so she grabbed his collar and was thankfully able to return him to us. That is the last time my brother is allow to take kimba on a walk.

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About 4 years ago, I went to the beach with my family. I had recently purchased a skimboard and wanted to ride it. I had surfed before and thought it would be easy to learn. When I showed up to the beach, I instantly grabbed the board and walked down to the beach. My first try, I went to soon and the board sunk in the water. The next time, I jumped on and  rode for about 10 feet and the board sunk into the sand. On my third try, I jumped on the board at the perfect time and rode down the beach for about 100 feet. Now that I had the hang  of it, I wanted to show off my skills. I waited until I saw that there was a group of girls walking down the beach, I waited until they got close and then jumped on my board. I ran and jumped on, everything was fine until my board got stuck in the sand. I was going too fast to stop myself and ended up falling right on my face into the sand.

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One day I was at Evans house with Owen and I brought my drone with. I had this great idea to fly my drone around Evan and Owen. I turned on my drone and was flying it two feet off the ground when I first started to chase Evan and Owen around Evans garage. Evan and Owen both ran outside the garage and so I followed them outside and chased them all around the place. After I chased them around I stopped and flew my drone really high up and said that I was done chasing them around. I waited about a minute and flew it up high and then Evan turned away from me and I started to descend. Evan did not know what I was doing because he had his back turned to me and i turned my drone on full speed. I flew away from Evan and tuned my drone around to face him. I lowered my drone to about five feet and flew full speed at him and my drone could go up to about twenty five miles an hour and I knew that so i hit full throttle and flew towards Evan. It hit him in the leg and cut him and it was really funny because he was not expecting it and Owen did not get hit or hurt for some reason.

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I remember it as if it was a Tuesday, They day when one ran into the glass next to the door at church. Now, this happens right after we were talking about a very serious subject with they youth group leader Ben so it was a very funny change of events later on. So if I'm not mistaken I remember hearing a sudden thud from the lobby then a sudden laughter from my long time best friend Gideon. So I got curious and decided to go check it out now I remember seeing his face red with embarrassment and laughing like crazy while the rest of us surrounded him like seagulls to a french fry. Then Ben came to she what happen and when he saw what happened he started to laugh like a hyena. So after the entire ordeal, we help him up while trying not to laugh at him and that's how I spent my time at the end of youth at church.

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I remember it as if it was a Tuesday, They day when one ran into the glass next to the door at church. Now, this happens right after we were talking about a very serious subject with they youth group leader Ben so it was a very funny change of events later on. So if I'm not mistaken I remember hearing a sudden thud from the lobby then a sudden laughter from my long time best friend Gideon. So I got curious and decided to go check it out now I remember seeing his face red with embarrassment and laughing like crazy while the rest of us surrounded him like seagulls to a french fry. Then Ben came to she what happen and when he saw what happened he started to laugh like a hyena. So after the entire ordeal, we help him up while trying not to laugh at him and that's how I spent my time at the end of youth at church.

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I was at a music summer camp, and we decided to have a Nerf war. We spent two hours setting everything up, putting barricades on doors, put the furniture outside, and chose teams. Our first battle was capture the flag. Everything went fine, it was fun. The whole building changed from a music school to a Nerf battlefield. Instead of musicians, we were intense army soldiers. We were having a great time. After a round of capture the flag, we decided to play a game of regular Nerf war. When we took our positions, my friend decided to go on top of the stairs. All of a sudden, the game starts and the other team rushes in. My friend, who is on top of the stairs, starts walking down the stairs. He walks down one step, and proceeds to fall down the stairs. Everyone looks over at him, in a disbelief of what is currently happening. As a “grand finale”, he hits his head on a barricade. After all of this had happened we all walk over to him. He stands up and yells “Long Live team Blue!” and the Nerf war proceeded. We all laughed and resumed the game. It was a nice funny break away from the somewhat serious Nerf war.

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Last summer me and my family  went to my grandparents house to go to a family reunion. Once we got to their house we had a little while before everyone was there. Me and my brother went to play outside. The house had a small garden. Me and my brother were with my grand mother picking some of the green beans when I was walking around in the garden and I tripped and fell into a mud puddle. I was completely covered in mud.

It had been about a half hour and everyone was there and my dad told me and my brother to come in. Most of the relatives there were family that I had not seen in years. Or not seen before at all. It was the first time I had seen most of these family members and I was completely covered in mud!

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It was summer of 2014, and my three best friends Bella, Tori, Amya and I  were walking onto the scorching hot beach.(Myrtle Beach) We swam around, surfed, and built sand Castles for about three hours.Until we saw one of those planes that have a cheesy advertising flag attached to it. But this one actually wasn't that cheesy it said " Banana Boat riding! Myrtle Beach, SC." After reading it we practically begged Bella's mom to let us do it even thought we had completely no idea what it was. Her mom was little skeptical at first but she eventually caved in and said "yes". we walked and walked for what seemed like forever then we came to a stand where her mom had to pay and basically sign a bunch of papers saying that if any of us die while riding then they are not responsible and cannot be sued. This made me even more nervous than I already was. After signing the papers we all went to put on our life jackets and chose where we wanted to sit on the boat. After listening to the guides long list of rules we hopped onto the boat. At first, we were going pretty slow but the further back in the ocean we got the faster the jet-ski pulled us. I was sitting in the front of the boat, which was the worst spot because the salty ocean water drenched my face. I continuously wiped my face, then all of a sudden we took a sharp turn and as expected I fell off. It took about 30 seconds for everyone to realize I was missing and in these 30 seconds I freaked out. so many thoughts went through my head " I MIGHT GET EATEN BY A SHARK". The boat turned around and I could hear my friends laughing at me. It's been three years since this happened or what I like to refer to as the day I almost died and my friends still laugh about it. This is something I don't think they will ever forget about.

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Once, when I was about 4, my best friend Manushri and I decided to play pretend. If you remember playing pretend when you were a kid, I bet you remember the ‘struggle’ of choosing a type of pretend play. There are so many choices! Family, Castle, Space, etc. We finally agreed to play Hair Salon. We started off with a pair of plastic scissors, a chair, and a dresser mirror. We then started upgrading our salon with other toys and household items, such as a plastic hair dryer with batteries, a fake hair straightener with a sticker of the Disney Cinderella on it, and hair accessories such as hair clips and bobby pins.
After a while (at this age, that means about 10 minutes), we were starting to get bored. We scoured the house, looking for more upgrades. Finally, I came across a pair of safety scissors which, of course, were hot pink. An idea popped into my head: what if we tested the scissors on our hair? You know, just to see if they worked?
Manu was skeptical, but I managed to convince her that it was a good idea. We knew our parents would not be happy if they found out, so we created a plan which we believed was well thought out―we would hide the locks of hair behind my bed. I mean, who would notice? Manu went first. She squeezed her eyes shut as I picked a small lock of hair and carefully positioned the scissors above her head. SNIP! Two inches of hair fell to the ground. She let out a small gasp when she heard the sound of the scissors closing. I picked up the hair, shoved it behind the bed, and plopped into the chair. We did the same with my hair. Once we were done, we ran off to play Candyland. After a round or two, we heard footsteps coming down the hallway. Manu’s mom and my mom appeared at the doorway.

“What are you girls up to?” My mom exclaimed over-enthusiastically.

“Can’t you see?” I snapped. I was a bratty kid.
Manu kept looking over at the bed. I elbowed her hard in the ribs. Unfortunately, her mom noticed anyway and strolled over to see what she was looking at. She inspected the ground all around the bed, until she came across the locks of black hair. She lifted her head slowly. My heart nearly exploded out of my chest when I saw the expression on her face. I was grounded for a week. Though at the time it wasn’t very funny, my family remembers and laughs at this whenever any of us has a hair appointment.

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One day, Kailtyn, Nicole, Madeline, and I were sitting in the loud lunch room. We were sitting at the end of the table, as usual. There were a few people around us sitting at the next lunch table.  At lunch that day, Kaitlyn had macaroni and cheese. Kaitlyn always giggles and is often laughing. I don’t remember what we were talking about and what all was said but for some reason, I suddenly turned around to look at something. Then, I turn back around and say something about the conversation we were having, and Kaitlyn was bending back down to her macaroni to get more on her fork. Kaitlyn was coming back up and had macaroni in her mouth. Kaitlyn started to chew the macaroni when she just started laughing. There was no reason to laugh at that point except for the fact that Kaitlyn had just spit macaroni and cheese onto the lunch table. Then Kaitlyn and I went to get paper towels to clean it all up. Nicole, Madeline, Kaitlyn, and I were all laughing at that point. I don’t think that anyone noticed. No one stared at us or started laughing. I have never let Kaitlyn live that one time down. Now, whenever she has macaroni and cheese for lunch, I always remind her not to laugh while she has it in her mouth. There have only been a few times that that has happened since then. Whenever it does happen, I always make jokes about it.

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It was July 4, 2015, me and two of my friends went to Carowinds with my dad. It was a nice, sunny day so, we decided to go the smaller rides first, and save the Intimidator and Fury for last. So, as the day went by I kept begging my friends and my dad to go on the Fury or Intimidator every time we went past one of them. My dad was too scared to go on either of them, it was quite funny it was one of those you have to be there to understand it situations. So, at the end of the end of the day it was like 7:30 pm, at 8 pm Carowinds, started the fireworks show, and we were still in line by the time we were even slightly close to getting on Fury, the fireworks were over. This is when the really funny yet, torturous part came in, my friends began to realize how tall the very first drop was. The two of them started muttering every prayer and sloka they could think of, to put it simply they thought they were going to die on the ride. So, basically, the next twenty minutes consisted of me having to listen to every sloka we learned in Sunday school. I was just there laughing at them, slapping my knees, almost choking because of how much I was laughing from the looks of fright and sheer terror on their faces. By the time, we got to the front of the line they were both trying to run away from me and the ride. In the end, we got on the ride pretty close to the front maybe one or two rows away from the front row. The whole time, they screamed in my ear and they weren’t even sitting on the sides, they both sat in the middle. Well, because they are scaredy cats and I was laughing so hard during the ride with my hands up in the air, I almost throw up. It was okay, ‘cause well it was definitely worth it.

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Instead of doing family activities, events, or go on trips, my family watches shows together. On weekends and during vacations my family and I have watched a countless number of tv shows, ranging from Friends to The Arrow. One Saturday night we were all sitting on the couch binge watching Agents of Shield. After 12 episodes my mom, unfortunately, said,”It’s time to go to bed.”Me and my sister, Lucy, begrudgingly got up and started to go up the stairs to our bedrooms. Being the butthead that I am, I plopped myself on the stairs attempting to do fish season as my dad climbed up the stairs. Fish season is when your hands touch together, palm to palm, and you move them back and forth between people's legs as the climb the stairs. I successfully annoyed my dad, but when my mom came up the stairs I figured I shouldn’t do it to her. As my mom was going up the stairs she told my other sister, Lily, to put down the iPad and go to bed. She kept insisting on finishing the puzzle she was working on. Getting slightly annoyed with her, my mom whispers to me,”Scare her really badly,” as she passes me on the stairs. So I went around the corner and turned the hallway light off. I heard her the stairs creak as she climbed up the stairs. When I heard the last stair creak I whirled around screaming,”Boo!” at the top of my lungs. Lily screamed, completely petrified, her eyes welling up with tears. I ran into my mom’s room, laughing my head off. Seeing the smile on my face, my mom figured I had succeeded and gave me a high five. My sister stormed in furious at me and my mom. I don’t let her forget the day I scared her so badly she cried.  

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Instead of doing family activities, events, or go on trips, my family watches shows together. On weekends and during vacations my family and I have watched a countless number of tv shows, ranging from Friends to The Arrow. One Saturday night we were all sitting on the couch binge watching Agents of Shield. After 12 episodes my mom, unfortunately, said,”It’s time to go to bed.”Me and my sister, Lucy, begrudgingly got up and started to go up the stairs to our bedrooms. Being the butthead that I am, I plopped myself on the stairs attempting to do fish season as my dad climbed up the stairs. Fish season is when your hands touch together, palm to palm, and you move them back and forth between people's legs as the climb the stairs. I successfully annoyed my dad, but when my mom came up the stairs I figured I shouldn’t do it to her. As my mom was going up the stairs she told my other sister, Lily, to put down the iPad and go to bed. She kept insisting on finishing the puzzle she was working on. Getting slightly annoyed with her, my mom whispers to me,”Scare her really badly,” as she passes me on the stairs. So I went around the corner and turned the hallway light off. I heard her the stairs creak as she climbed up the stairs. When I heard the last stair creak I whirled around screaming,”Boo!” at the top of my lungs. Lily screamed, completely petrified, her eyes welling up with tears. I ran into my mom’s room, laughing my head off. Seeing the smile on my face, my mom figured I had succeeded and gave me a high five. My sister stormed in furious at me and my mom. I don’t let her forget the day I scared her so badly she cried.  

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It’s weird, during Christmas time in the piedmont of North Carolina it can be as cold as Antarctica or as hot as Death Valley, but a few years ago it was not too hot, and not too cold, my favorite weather. We had just finished a very pleasing Christmas dinner at my Aunt and Uncle’s house. Almost ready to leave to go to my Grandma’s house to open presents, my Mom and Aunt started to talk for what seemed to be years. So to help preclude my boredom I sat under my Aunt and played with her keychain that was dangling above me, little did I know that she had a bottle of pepper spray on it. With my curiosity I touched and searched every surface of the objects attached to her keychain, somehow I succeeded to make the pepper spray bottle leak the vile liquid all over my face and hands.

As soon as it hit my skin, I started to feel the most constant pain in my whole life, it felt like a fire was burning my skin to ash. I started to cry because of the terrible pain I was going through, so my family rushed over to see what was wrong, I told them what it felt like, and then my Aunt figured out that it was her pepper spray. They all felt sympathy for me so they ran to get ice to counteract the burning sensation.

Even though that event was melancholy, I had my family with me to cheer me up, and the rest of the day turned out to swell. We all opened presents and enjoyed each other’s company.

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Humorous Story:

One time I was at my friend josh's  house  with another friend Cannon other kid and we decided to play some airsoft. We got everything set up . I put on dark clothes knowing it was dark but what we didn’t know is that it was 11 at night. Now my friends house is around lots of woods so we decided one person would start deep in the woods, one person in the front yard and one person in the backyard. Now just to my luck i got to start deep in the woods. We created a group text when to start. So it starts and it takes me two to three minutes just to get up to the house. We searched for minutes which seemed like hours. Finally I found Josh but he was sitting in a chair. I was about to shoot him but I realized he was out. After about five minutes I walk up right behind Cannon. And for some stupid reason josh made a rule if you are within 20 yards of someone you have to tell them to surrender. So I yelled surrender. For no reason cannon just turned around and shot without aiming. Now all the times I've played this I never wear a helmet and still never do but somehow when he turned around his first shot put a hole in my lip. I fell on the ground and died in laughter. Until I actually found the hole. Then my lip swole up, we wrapped it up and hoped Josh’s mom wouldn't see. But she caught us wrapping it up. She made me put rubbing alcohol on it. I still laugh when i think about it.

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I went upstairs to go get my new birthday present so I could go show it to my best friend Mila. I brought it down and showed her my glass cupcake. It had pink frosting at the top and had rainbow sprinkles. “You can even take the top off of it and put stuff in it! I even painted it myself!” I was saying to her.
Milla was admiring it when my dad came stomping down the stairs. He then said, “make sure you don’t drop that Elena. It’s very fragile”.
“I would never drop it! I'm very careful,” I said. He then just went and sat on the brown couch and watched some boring football, in my opinion.
Milla and I both then got hungry and wanted a snack. So I picked up my pretty brand new glass cupcake and carried it over to the kitchen to get a fruit roll up. Me being the clumsy person I am, of course dropped the glass cupcake on the floor. It shattered into a million pieces all over the kitchen floor in a flash making a loud noise. My face then turned as red as a tomato.
My dad quickly turned around and asked, “is everything alright?” Milla and I both quickly responded and said, “we’re fine!”
“What was that anyway?”
Milla and I swiftly responded with, “we just dropped some forks on the floor. We’ll pick them back up. Sorry!”
“It’s ok, as long as it wasn’t the cupcake! That was really expensive.”
We both just stared at the broken cupcake.

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My family really likes animals, so we always have more than 1 dog. So, we were looking to get another dog. Once we decided that we really wanted this dog, we adopted her! One day, I decided to play with her.  She was fairly calm before I started to play with her, but she got hyper real quick. I didn’t know this at the time, but she really likes to jump on people. When she jumped on me for the first time, I stumbled back but managed to stay standing.  Then I ran away from her and decided to face the corner of a wall. Our dog jumped on me and shoved me into the corner of the wall. I fell back and cried. My mom jumped out of her chair and dropped her *new* computer. She hung up the phone and carried me to the counter. She called our neighbor who as a doctor. He told us to take me to the E.R. My dad drove like a mad man to the E.R. I had to get stitches, which I still hate. The doctor came in and put this paper the had a piece cut out for my cut. He tried to stitch my cut shut, but I managed to get away and kick him in the stomach. My parents had to hold me down after that. After that was done, I had this huge bruise down the side of my face. My family still laughs at this today. This is why I don’t trust walls any more.

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Hayyyy

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In 2011, I went to the beach and we were trying out a new hotel that we found online. It was called Dunes Village Resort. It has a pool, lazy river, oversized board games (giant chess, checkers, etc.), and a few hot tubs underneath the rooms. We were heading down to where the pools were for the first time. When we got down there was an old man guarding the pool and telling us what to do and what not to do. He finally finished after about five minutes. We walked down the ramp into where the pools were and swam for a bit, and after we went to get ice-cream because we heard music outside of the pool room. We finished and came back into the pool room and learned that there was another pool room in the next building (still part of Dunes Village Resort). We went into it; the floor was soaking wet all around the place. We floated in the lazy river for a bit and then I got bored and wanted to go back to the other building with the big slides, even though I knew I wasn’t tall enough for them yet. When I walked over to my grandparents we began walking over to the other building again, and I ran into a pole and fell over. It was like I was half-unconscious. I could see and breath but I just couldn’t move. My grandma freaked out of course and started trying to wake me up, and she kept trying for almost one minute before grabbing her phone. I could move my arm by then and tapped her leg and she stopped dialing nine-one-one. A couple more seconds later I could talk and move freely again. We started nervous laughing awkwardly, then headed back to the room. The entire thing was just weird.

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HEyyyyy