SouthernStar wrote:
Well once I went to Thailand and had to stay in a village with my mum's family, and it had just finished raining and I was hanging around in some sort of sinking mud/sand(Don't ask why) and I began to sink >.> I think I called for SOMEONE to help, but no one came, and guess what? My mum was just around the CORNER CHATTING TO HER FRIENDS. When I finally escaped. (I was like knee-waist deep) I washed myself then went to ask my mum WHY she didn't help me. Well guess what? She KNEW I was there, but said that I wasn't going to die or something. Would she of said the same if I didn't make it out? NO. She cares so much sometimes doesn't she? But I can't blame her if she lacks common sense, which she does.
Something like that happened to me too! Except I was drowning.
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Mom,brother, and me all went to the lake one day. The lake had muddy water and a waterfall. I found a dead fish on the side of the lake and wanted to catch a fish too. I tried to hillbilly hand fish on the edge of the lake, much to scared to go any deeper. I managed to catch some guppies but I felt bad for catching them so they went free. The 2 insane family dogs had also come and the biggest one ran between my legs flinging me around the middle of the lake. (I was standing on a cliff thingy) I was about 7 and very short. I sunk down like a rock and began to thrash about. I barley had to the time to breath out as I reached the surface and was soon pushed back in. Mom had gone to the car for something and my little brother, age 5 was flipping his lid. He was calling my name over and over again.
"Sister! Sister!"
"Brother! *hack* *cough*"
"I'm coming to save you!"
"No! Don-your to small! Save yourself!"
Brother ran to get Mom but he stopped when he say Mom looking down on us on a cliff side. Brother began to motion and gesture frantically at mom then to me but she just smiled blankly, happy to see that we were getting along so well for once. Anger erupted inside me and something inside me gave me a very motivation speech.
No, I am not going to die today! I am only 7...
I don't know how but I suddenly calmed down and I began to slowly doggie paddle forward. I also remembered how I saw a frog swim and I tried it myself. It worked like a charm and I began my way onto the shore. I had never been happier to have a face full of dirt/sand and I lay on the solid ground. Mom was now looking out into the water and my brother bounded to my aid. Brother was so kind to me that day and he place he little blue jacket onto me.
"Mom, why didn't you help me?...I was drowning!"
"You were swimming very well honey."
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I just realized how much of my childhood I can put into a comic...I'm so going to do that. There was also this time 1/4 of me ended up on the road,Scrap my beloved kitty of the road with a spatula,my mother blew up an anthill,I saved an old lady from a shopping cart,I got chased by peacocks daily,I had to fish a scooter out of a live ditch, and I had to walk past a pedofile everyday after school.