The Halloween Confusion

“Dad,” I said impatiently, “Please can you get me that?” I begged. I was so frustrated I could have pulled my hair out. My family never put any halloween decorations, and no one came to our house for trick or treating. I was just asking for lights. Nothing too bad or scary. My family thought it would be ugly, but they only thought that for skeletons and zombies.

“Look, Dad. Can we get a blow up?” I asked very genuinely.

“ We don’t have that plug,” my dad replied. “Plus,” my dad continued, “we don’t need Halloween decorations.”

“Yes we do!!!!” I screamed.  “ No one comes to our house to trick or treat. Besides, It is not like I am asking for skeletons or zombies.” I argued. Both my dad, and I had a reason there, but I still think I’m correct. I dramatically fell down onto the couch. That scream would have woken up everybody in our neighborhood.

“ Look, I understand that, but….” I couldn’t handle the stress. I let out a high pitched squeal. I knew I was going to have to take in this stress for a while longer.

“Can you please go to page 2?” I asked after I calmed down majorly, like MAJORLY.

“Sure, I have no problem with that.” he responded and he scrolled down and pressed the arrow button.  The page went back with a whole new set of products. My dad scrolled down, but then something caught my eye. 

“Dad,” I asked. “ Do you  see that?”

“Do I see what?” He asked genuinely. 

“The orange pumpkin lights. The price is 11 bucks. It is reasonable right?” I shared with a point there.

“Yes,” My dad stated. “ It’s pretty reasonable.”

“Well…,” I uttered, looking for the sentence I wanted to hear. My dad looked so confused he looked at ME like I WAS CRAZY!

My dad knew what I was referring to so he stated “I will buy it.”. I stood up like a meerkat  that spotted danger, and started to clap louder than ever. 

Then another thing caught my eye. I was looking at the jack o’ lantern lights, but there was a little photo next to it with the price.

“Dad,” I asked. “ Do you see that little thing in the right bottom corner?”

“Yeah.” my dad said, still scanning the page.

“So,” I continued, “Can we get those purple witch lights for 12 bucks?” I asked. “Anyway it’s only a dollar more.” I argued with a fairly good reason there.

“ Well we could buy it.” he dragged with some uncertainty. 

I thought to myself “What is taking him SO LONG to say YES?”  I had a hard time taking in his dragging and I my mind was losing it! You can understand, right?

“Dad,” I said impatiently. “Are we buying it or not?” I said straight up. I had a feeling of being bold by that point. It was starting to get clear with everything.

“Ok, we will buy it.” my dad agreed. I was so shocked at how straight up he said those words. I was so happy I started jumping higher than I would on a trampoline. I jumped for 30 seconds before I got a cramp from all that jumping. I was so happy except for the fact that I had a cramp.

My dad STILL didn’t press the “Add to Cart” button so I waited for a minute before I blurted out “Press the “ADD TO CART” button. “What are you waiting for?” I was too frustrated.  I was trying to calm myself down, but I had to let out a little scream.

“Wait a sec,” my dad told me. “ Let me see what our cart has so far.” There was nothing in the cart.  My dad called my mom to ask if she wanted something. My dad and mom talked for ten minutes and bought something.

My dad wanted something else for FREE SHIPPING. My dad pressed the button to pay and when he pressed it, in red big bold letters it said PAYMENT FAILURE. I could feel the Stress rising up in me. My dad tried again ,but the same result, PAYMENT FAILURE. My dad typed in a number.

“Hello, Amazon,” my dad spoke. “Can you please check my payment.”

“Sure, what’s your name?” the man on the phone asks.

“My name is ___________ _______.” my dad replied.

“Ok, I will check the payment.” the man on the phone said. Then some music came and went on for 2 minutes. They said that they took care of the payment failure.

  My dad finally ordered in and it said that it would come on WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 26. My dad closed the MacBook and I saw the Apple sign on the MacBook slowly fade away, but by that day finally came, I would have been a senior citizen. It literally took FOREVER to come. When it finally came I couldn’t bear my excitement. That halloween, people finally started to come to our house.  After all the arguing in our house it was mission accomplished.

“Thank you, dad.” I thought.

BLURB

Me, a boy fought a long battle for just some halloween decorations. I fought and fought and fought.       

  "Dad!!!!!!!" I screamed.                          

"It isn't in my control." He said.

This is the story where all these little fights that got us into problems] but this is the story that gets into those details.