[Dailydrool] Whoops, how embarrassing

[Dale Rutz]

Hi it's Gracie,

It was by mistake I SWEAR.  I never, ever would have done it on purpose.  Gosh I 
still feel so bad.  You see ......

Natalie got straight As on her report card.  Again.  And mommy never has to bug 
her or ask her or help her or tell her or anything.  She just gets As in 
everything all by herself with no help at all.  And she takes very hard classes 
and extra classes and all kinds of stuff and mommy and daddy were so proud they 
told her she could have anything.  And she wanted a pogo stick.   Not just any 
pogo stick.  A really special pogo stick.  One that can jump 4-6 FEET in the 
air.  She promised mommy she would wear her helmet.  So mommy ordered her the 
pogo stick.  And it took a long time but it finally came yesterday.  Natalie was 
jumping almost that high even before she opened the box, I don't even know why 
she needs the stick.  Mommy and Daddy were outside when the box came.  So 
Natalie dragged the box inside and opened it up and the pogo stick had a lot of 
parts.  Most of them were attached but apparently you have to do special things 
to set up the stick, how tall it is and how high it can jump and how many of the 
whatsits are engaged and so on.  Natalie wanted to set it up for a Novice at 
first but it was all so confusing and complex so she SET DOWN THE INSTRUCTION 
MANUAL on the couch right on top of my blankie right next to me and went outside 
to get mommy and daddy.  Apparently instruction manuals are made out of paper.

It really was it was even crinkly paper and she set it down right next to me and 
walked away and I was only going to crinkle it once, really I only wanted one 
crinkle but then it was two crinkles and then part of it was sticking to the 
roof of my mouth and the next thing I knew it was in a million itty bity pieces 
all over the floor (what I didn't swallow) and Natalie was standing there with 
daddy and both of their mouths were making a big O shape and not a sound came 
out of either one of them, they just stood there looking at me and the very 
complicated and partially assembled pogo stick and what was once the 
instructions and making a big O with their mouths .... and a bunch of water 
welled up in Natalies eyes ..... and then mommy came.

And mommy said whoops, let's see if they have a pdf online.   I don't know what 
a pdf is but I know it is NOT paper and I know you cannot accidently chew it up 
by mistake.  Luckily.   And then mommy said "yep, sure enough, the manufacturer 
has the pdf online."   And it was in color and it was bigger than the paper one 
and it was easier to read and understand and you could search back and forth in 
it and they had that pogo stick all set up in no time and Natalie was bouncing 
and bouncing out on the back patio wearing her helmet shouting "NO SNOOPY, get 
BACK, No Snoopy, MOMMY get you PLEASE get Snoopy ....."

The bouncing went on for a long time and she never did bounce on Snoopy but she 
won't let him try the stick either and he is thinking of causing it to go 
missing so he can curate it.  I still feel kinda bad even though it was all a 
mistake and I would never ever have done it on purpose.

More later from Gracie who ate the instructions by accident I SWEAR
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