Shame Memory
I sit at my aunts house and we talk about that
one time in disneyland we all can never forget. The time I dropped my shoes
into the zoo. We are sitting cross legged and laugh about the ridiculousness of
the situation. We laugh and question what was going through my little 5 year
old brain at the time as we eat caramel popcorn and watch the daily show.
I was about 5 and my family and my aunt went to
disneyland for my birthday. They surprised me with a hotel room inside of a zoo
themed hotel and our balcony overlooked a zoo. Giraffes would eat the flowers
out of the flower boxes on our balcony as we cowered in nonsensical fear.
Gorillas would occasionally awaken us at the crack of dawn.
One day I was on the balcony watching the
elephants after a day of disney land. I was for whatever reason dangling my
sandles through the bars of the railing and decided to drop not one but both
sandals. I was horrified at what I had done and even more horrified when the
toucans began consuming my favorite pair of blue ecco sandals. When i
eventually mustered the courage to tell my parents what they did, they were
half shocked half amazed at the originality of my accident. We asked the
concierge if someone could retrieve them but the said the zoo was closed ‘til
day break. So my dad devised a plan to tie together phone cords to a hanger and
literally fish for my sandals in a swarm of carnivorous toucans. After about an
hour of poking toucans with a makeshift fishing apparatus my dad retrieved my
sandals.
Considering
these were the only pair of shoes I brought and this was only the first day of
the week long trip, I was ecstatic.
This was a good story, I like how you started it as a meta story. good job
ReplyDeleteI've never been to Disneyland, but I could really picture the situation. This is a funny story. Good job!
ReplyDeleteThis story is really funny. I think it's an interesting take on shame memories. A lot of times, we can look back on situations that were mortifying or bad at the time and laugh, which I would consider a good trait to have.
ReplyDeleteThis was well written. I can picture perfectly everything that happened in the story, and I think it is pretty humorous. Imagining a pack of toucans surrounding a sandal. It would probably be really fun and exciting to stay in a zoo themed hotel with live animals. I know you can laugh about it now, but it was probably pretty frustrating to see your sandals being attacked by toucans at the time.
ReplyDeleteI like that you chose a childhood memory as your shame memory! I'm often embarrassed about things that happened when I was really little.
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