Sunday, October 21, 2012

On the Corner of Singleton & Chicago


             Our imagination had to go beyond rainbows and unicorns because its was just us. There were not other kids we could play with. Other than our cousins when they came on occasion. I grew up in West Dallas, on Chicago and Singleton. The neighborhood was very diminutive and secluded, the only close things we could do was go to the Dog House or just run around the streets.
The Dog House was this big red and yellow building on the corner of Singleton. A small fast food joint, that sold hot dogs, nachos, burgers, chips, fries, etc. It was a small teen hangout although I was only five, I enjoyed going to the Dog House after a long hot Texas day and getting a  knockout, which in general was half vanilla ice cream and half slushy. Depending on what flavor of syrup you wanted described the different knockouts they served. I always enjoyed the Blue Coconut Knockout because my mom.
    Everyday on occasion my two brothers and I, use to just run around and play with my cousins who are the same age as each of us, we use to rumble and get into trouble. there was this car lot right across the house we lived in. There was a small hole in the fence around the back side of it. We use to sneak in and just run around playing tag or hide-and-go-seek. There were many cars we use to just run, jump, and go inside the cars.
Other than the Dog House and the car lot, we just had our imagination, running up and down the street, climbing trees, breaking into abandoned houses, just being little misfits.

6 comments:

  1. i believe that this story could have been had more detail with describing the story in the smallest thing. Ex. when he/she said hot Texas day explain how hot. Threw the whole story i think he/or she could have put somewhere in the story where they was talking to there cousins. The story made me feel that they where jumping around because they didn't explain how they got from one place to another. Other then that the tory turn out to be interesting.

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  2. Our imagination had to go beyond rainbows and unicorns I enjoyed this because you used unicorns and rainbow as an example of imagination. I used to do the same things when I was little just get in trouble all the time and always went outside so this story is well put together and well formatted good job.

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  3. I believe your childhood is sad. It should have been more detailed. You're lacking of (,) in some parts. I feel the same way as your childhood sometimes. Overall, good job!

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  4. I like the way you used more expressive words then just plain words. Your childhood must have been really boring considering it was just you and your family. This made me feel kind of sad because my childhood can relate to yours in some ways. You did a good job though. (:

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  5. I feel your pain. I used to live in small town where you couldn't go anywhere without driving 9182713918732972 miles to go do something fun. At least you had a little resturant. All the food you mentioned sounded very delicious. Also my favorite game as a little kid was hide in seek. Very interesting story.

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  6. i like the fact you a had a pretty nice child hood except the fact you didn't have to much to do. this story makes my child hood look bad the only difference is that my hood was bigger and more people in it.but other than that i think you didn't not have any errors in this story. good job

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