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Samantha Schol
Narration paragraph
March 12 2009
Is that vengeance on your shirt?
I had had enough, enough of staying in a tiny freezing RV, while the dogs and cats had the run of a heated, carpeted, home with hot water and indoor plumbing. My stepfather was doing his best just to make ends meet. He had taken a new job and was gone a lot. This is how he coped with the new wave of medical bills from my mothers’ chemotherapy. Unfortunately this left the five dogs and two litters of rogue kittens unattended for weeks at a time. I had not expected the mayhem that overwhelmed the house when I agreed to move back in to help out my family. It was a biohazard wasteland I couldn’t even take my daughter inside for extended periods of time because of all the allergens and unmentionables that littered the floor. So I awoke at 5am after the fourth night in the RV and sent my daughter over to the babysitters telling the 21 year old that it was going to be an all day affair, and went to work. This was my revenge. For all the nights that I spent freezing my tail off in that stupid RV and being frustrated that we couldn’t sleep in a warm bed and take hot showers because of all the grime. I was not going to spend one more second in that cold cramped RV. I was going to annihilate every dirty reason that I was stuck in there, and I was going to enjoy every second of it. The cats and kittens were the first thing to go, and then the dogs were unceremoniously evicted outdoors. I tackled one room at a time, and the trash bags began to fill. I hated to throw my family’s things away but after the seventh or eighth bag of new garbage I didn’t think twice about throwing things away. I attacked the dust and grime with sprays and scrubbers, and beat the rugs with almost sadistic glee, and ripped out carpet like a crazed animal. It was now 10 pm I came, I saw, I cleaned. I picked up the baby from the sitters and that night we slept in our bedroom. That was the best night ever because I knew that the house was clean and safe for both the baby and I.
Narration paragraph
March 12 2009
Is that vengeance on your shirt?
I had had enough, enough of staying in a tiny freezing RV, while the dogs and cats had the run of a heated, carpeted, home with hot water and indoor plumbing. My stepfather was doing his best just to make ends meet. He had taken a new job and was gone a lot. This is how he coped with the new wave of medical bills from my mothers’ chemotherapy. Unfortunately this left the five dogs and two litters of rogue kittens unattended for weeks at a time. I had not expected the mayhem that overwhelmed the house when I agreed to move back in to help out my family. It was a biohazard wasteland I couldn’t even take my daughter inside for extended periods of time because of all the allergens and unmentionables that littered the floor. So I awoke at 5am after the fourth night in the RV and sent my daughter over to the babysitters telling the 21 year old that it was going to be an all day affair, and went to work. This was my revenge. For all the nights that I spent freezing my tail off in that stupid RV and being frustrated that we couldn’t sleep in a warm bed and take hot showers because of all the grime. I was not going to spend one more second in that cold cramped RV. I was going to annihilate every dirty reason that I was stuck in there, and I was going to enjoy every second of it. The cats and kittens were the first thing to go, and then the dogs were unceremoniously evicted outdoors. I tackled one room at a time, and the trash bags began to fill. I hated to throw my family’s things away but after the seventh or eighth bag of new garbage I didn’t think twice about throwing things away. I attacked the dust and grime with sprays and scrubbers, and beat the rugs with almost sadistic glee, and ripped out carpet like a crazed animal. It was now 10 pm I came, I saw, I cleaned. I picked up the baby from the sitters and that night we slept in our bedroom. That was the best night ever because I knew that the house was clean and safe for both the baby and I.