Summer+Whoppers

Summer Whoppers

[|justinhopkins]

It was a nice sunny summer day and I was going to the amusement park today. I thought this day was going to be an awesome and fun day I guess not. I was on my way to the park and it was the hottest day of the year wow it was hot. I was finally to the park and it was a pretty busy day but not too bad. There was one ride I just really wanted to ride it was called adrenaline it was the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world. This ride has never been ridden before so I was so excited to ride it. So we went to get in line for the new ride and the line was huge the guy said probably about an hour or two. So we waited and waited and waited finally I was the next ride. I was getting in to my seat and I was so excited to ride this awesome ride. I was in my seat going up the first hill and I was about half way up and I started to get scared. I was at the top of the hill and it was really high we went down the hill at about 85 mph it was awesome so far. I hit the first loop and we were you are completely upside down and the roller coaster got stuck we were just stuck. Everyone on the ride was screaming it was really scary I didn’t know what was going to happen. Finally the ride started to move again and it was really weird because every hill or turn I thought it would get stuck again. So finally the ride ends and I get off the ride to go home. I am walking to the car thinking wow that was the craziest day of my life.

Found Dog Found Keys Kelly Dotterman

Over the summer, it was a clear sunny normal day. We had just got back from Coney Island and we were just drying out in my driveway, eating lunch and drinking sprite. And the randomly we see a big fat beagle comes running down our street. I was with my sister & two neighborhood kids, Annie & Alex, none of us knew the dog that and it didn’t look familiar. None of us knew who it belonged to. We didn’t know if it was a friendly dog. So, went inside and waited until the dog was gone. We told my mom about the strange dog, but she didn’t know who it belonged to either. Then a couple days later, we noticed the dog several times. Wondering what it wanted, and why it was just roaming around our neighborhood. We didn’t think it was lost because it did have a collar on. But we still didn’t know who he belonged to. But none of us wanted to get close to the strange dog to find out. The dog would always dig in our front yard for some reason. It looked liked it was digging for something, but we didn’t know what it was. After he left we went in my yard and looked in the strange hole that he would always dig into. We filled in the hole and wondered what he was digging for. My dad did not like that at all. Then on a Friday we noticed, my mom couldn’t find her car keys. That was weird because she is always organized and she always knows where things are. And we couldn’t go to where we were planning on going. Then later that day the dog comes back, & he comes to our door this time, my mom opens the door because it looked like he had something in his mouth, & he comes in and goes upstairs. We followed him all the way to our living room. And he drops my mom’s keys on the floor. He was a friendly dog because we was wagging his tail, and didn’t seem to be growling, so my mom managed to look at his tag. It said he belonged to our neighbor up the street, they just got him and we had not been told it was there dog. So all in all my mom got her keys back, & we finally knew who the dog belonged to. We finally found out his name which was Louie. I guess when he was digging he was trying to tell us where my mom’s keys were because she had been working in the garden, not knowing her keys were somewhere in the yard.

I could not believe it. I was on the world famous television show Jeopardy!. The show watched by millions every night, and I had made it. The host, Alex Trebek, walked out and announced the categories, and I didn’t realize it, but we had already started. I better pay more attention, I told myself. The other contestants were answering the question left and right. By the end of the first round, I had not answered a single question. In round two, Double Jeopardy!, I actually got on a roll answering about three or four questions in a row, but then I got the Daily Double, and my mind went blank. I was still in third place, but still had a chance. Finally, we reached Final Jeopardy!, and I had only 30 seconds to write down the answer and a wager. Then, finally, the answer was said… and I was wrong! Oh no! I said to myself. I couldn’t come back the next day, I didn’t win anything. I was a failure, all because I lost on Jeopardy! ||
 * || [|jacobeifert]

By: Molly Cantor I am never going to ride around in a golf cart with August or Drew driving again. I love driving around in the golf cart with Ashley but they are just not good at driving. August and Drew are 15 and about to get their license and I would NEVER drive with them in a billion years. On the golf cart, the driver gets to sit on the left and on the right the passenger can sit in that seat. You can have a driver and two passengers in the seats but it’s kind of a tight space. On the back of the golf cart is like a little basket and on both sides of the basket there is two little plat forms that you can sit on if you want and there are bars you can hold onto just so you don’t fall off. Oon our path is a driveway and the owner of the lot decided to block off the area where you enter so we couldn’t turn around. Except when August was driving he decided to go around the bushes into the grass and then back onto the rocky road. August also turned really fast and sharp so we all almost fell out and since it was dark and we didn’t have lights on the golf cart, it just wasn’t good. While we were all driving around I would never sit on the back. Ashley, August or Drew sat in the back, it just depended on who was driving. We would switch drivers but it was mostly August and Drew. When August was driving he was pushing down the gas pedal and Drew sat on him and was steering the wheel, August couldn’t see and thing because he was under Drew. We got yelled at when they were doing that because they almost ran into a tree. They did that a lot but since they went behind the camper and the mobile home where all the parents and Ashley’s Grandfather was, he started to yell so they slowed down so they didn’t hit the tree. They sped back up when we were out of sight of adults. It was really funny because we would go through grass and we weren’t supposed to and we went crazy turns and it was just so much fun! I really wish we could do it again sometime soon but more land and a faster golf cart! It’s just really fun to drive around with them but I wouldn’t be surprised if we died while doing that. ||  ||
 * Golf Cart Gone Bad

Flight 103 to Dublin was like no other. This summer I was flying to Dublin, Ireland with my grandparents. We got okay seats but right when we boarded my Grandma and Grandpa fell asleep in the seats closest to the window. I was sitting in the seat next to aisle. After about hour and a half on the plane I saw a shadowy, maybe middle aged man with a scruffy beard and a cowboy hat sit in the row across from me. The man immediately pulled his hat over his eyes and perched his feet up on the seat in front of him. He looked pretty familiar but I wasn’t sure. After a half an hour more on the plane the feeling was killing me. He was still lounging in his seat when a suspicious looking male flight attendant was eyeing me walking past us. Then a female attendant looking very nervous followed the man. What happened next almost gave me a heart attack. The man with the cowboy hat sprang from his seat and tackled the woman. Her high pitched scream left a deafening ringing sound in my ear. The man leaped up from the ground and took a martial arts stance. It was the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. The male attendant twisted around and shouted to the front of the plane as four men in black suits and Italian leather shoes charged at the man with the cowboy hat. As they approached, the man leapt up onto the nearest seat and did a back flip off the window and landed on one of the attackers. By now all the passengers had left to another section except me and my still sleeping grandparents. The attacker was instantly knocked out while the other three in suits and the disguised flight attendant were getting into position to take out the man in the cowboy hat. As the disguised attendant leapt at the man his hat fell to the ground to reveal a toughened face with some scars. At that moment I had no doubt the man was Chuck Norris. Chuck twisted the attendants hand and he fell to the ground. All that was left was the tree Italians. They were intimidating. As one of the men sprinted back into the luggage area, the others guarded the passage way. They were smiling thinking they would get off this plane with 625,000 grand. Chuck was not amused. He put his head down and sped right at them. The smiles quickly turned to expressions of fear and dismay. Chuck’s arms slammed into them and they fell to the ground grasping their stomachs. To my amazement, Chuck looked back at me with a smile and wave. He soon disappeared into the luggage area. Then I felt the plane make a sudden plunge downward. With my heart racing, I sped into the luggage area and saw chuck resetting the combination on the safe while a man in a suit was crying in the corner. After Chuck finished he took me by the hand and threw me into the cockpit. He has strong arms. ‘’Sit in the assistant’s seat.’’ He screamed now as the plane was making an unpleasant screeching sound. He had me work the controls while he took the wheel and struggled to hold it. He was 247 people’s only hope to survive. About after a minute of screaming the plane rumbled and sped across the desert floor. This wasn’t Dublin. The plane took a sudden halt. We had landed in the middle of nowhere. I had called the police and they were tracking our plane while it was going down. Chuck shook my hand and exited the plane without a word, snatching his cowboy hat from the floor. The police arrived and escorted everyone out of the plane. As I stepped out, I saw a policeman loading five men into a police car. As I looked out into the distance I saw a dark figure walking into the bright sunset. The figure’s hat fell off and he picked it back up. I smiled. Chuck Norris had saved my life. ||
 * || [|ryanholbrook]