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One day my family and I loaded up the car and headed for the beach. The weather was perfect for a long day of swimming and relaxing. As we got out of the car I bolted across the street. At the same time a sports car halted right next to me. Somehow my small life was spared that day.
Steele was a really good athlete. He had a big football game coming up. Steele practiced for his game tirelessly for a month. On the day of the big game, Steele was very prepared. Steele kicked the winning goal for his team.
Sean and Sarah had never gone on a trip together. This weekend, they were going on their first. They left early in the morning. The whole trip was great except for one thing. Their room was very bad and not private feeling at all.
Jared had trained for his wrestling tournament all week. He dedicated hours to training. It got in the way of his grades. His principal had to tell him he couldn't compete. His grades were too low.
Larry was on a cruise with his family. He was watching the sunset with his wife. All of a sudden it started to rain. The captain ordered them to head inside. It rained throughout the entire night.
Ted reviewed the work. He put the work on his desk. He set his desk on fire. He watched the flames dance. He extinguished it before it got to big.
Oda moved to a new city and needed to open a bank account. She had seen a couple of banks as she was passing through town. She decided which one she thought would be best for her. She went in and told them she needed a new account. They were very pleasant and she was in and out very quickly.
Jill was outside playing. All of a sudden she was stung by a bee. Her arm became very swollen and red. Jill had to go to the hospital. She was having an allergic reaction to the bee sting.
Jimmy sat on his front porch. He heard a noise under the porch. He hopped down and looked under. There was a large possum. It hissed at him.
Fred is looking for ways to make his apartment feel more comfortable. He decides he wants to have a flower in his living room. Fred buys a beautiful Orchid at the flower store. It looks perfect on his coffee table. He feels happy that he has improved how his apartment feels.
When my dad found out about Kevin, he invited him over. Kevin had been a friend of my brother's for years. When he got there, my dad told him we would never date each other. Kevin said it was like a punch in the gut. Later, he said he knew I didn't love him and was too young.
Dan was drinking downtown. He got too drunk and lost his friends. They drove and he needed to get home. He was able to hail a cab. Dan made it home safely.
Bob loved to run through the park. Yesterday while he was running he twisted his ankle. The pain caused him to fall down onto the very hard concrete. Bob's friend Paul stopped to make sure he was all right. Paul helped Bob back up onto his feet again.
Jen was obsessed with her ex-husband. She would follow him around town. Sometimes she would peek through his windows. Jen knew she should get a grip, but she just couldn't. She was determined to win her ex back.
My son's car ac stopped working two weeks ago. He did not want to go to a garage. He bought a diy kit. He thought it did not work, but it kicked in last night. He hopes it will still work.
Kate and her brothers and their friends were walking home from school. They passed a house with fruit trees in his backyard. The others decided to take some of the fruit. Kate fought her temptation and didn't join them. She knew it would be wrong to take the fruit without permission.
James attended a new art class at his college. He did not really know too much about art at all. He gave it his best effort and found out that he can draw. Now James has dreams of becoming a successful artist. With practice and determination he can reach his dreams.
My friend Frank called me this afternoon. I worked with him from 2007 to 2011, when I retired. He still calls on occasion to update me about work. Today he called to say his wife was sick with the flu. I told him to go home and take care of his wife.
Barry got a new smartphone. He was really disappointed by the battery life on his phone. He ordered a battery case off of Amazon. Barry got his new case the next day. The battery case improved his battery life by 24 hours.
My great Aunt Hazel lived on a farm. We drove her home from her sister's funeral about 10 years ago. That night was the last we would see her in her old age. We sat at her kitchen table, drinking fresh goat's milk. It had chunks of fat in it that nauseated me, but it was interesting.
Jake stared angrily at the trees. Why shouldn't he be allowed to play video games for 10 hours straight? Instead, he had been sent outside to play. He seized a branch and began climbing out of sheer frustration. Before he knew it, he was having fun and forgot all about video games.
Fred loaded up the washer with his dirty clothes. He opened the lid and lazily poured detergent into the washer. He then went into the kitchen to make a snack. When he walked by the washer, he saw bubbles pouring out of it! He cleaned up the mess and vowed to measure stuff correctly.
Evan was being rushed to the hospital. He had had a seizure. His mother was terrified. The doctors said he would be ok. She was relieved but still on edge.
Bob's company had a retreat they called The Forest. Bob took his family there for spring vacation. They stayed in a log cabin looking out over a lake. They fished, took walks and even played golf. They all agreed that they would like to return the next year.
Blair's second successful date was set to be a movie night. The house was all to her and her prospective boyfriend. Suddenly, she realized she had to watch her baby brother. Blair's technical prowess allowed her to repurpose phones. Placing them like monitors, she kept the date from going south.
Juan stepped up to take the kick. This was for all the marbles. He ran up and lashed out a shot on goal. The ball flew off his foot and into the goal. Juan had won the game with his penalty kick!
Phil loved to eat. Each day, he would go to a new restaurant. He would pick an appetizer one day, an entree the next. One day, his family told him he was getting to be overweight. Phil stopped going out to eat.
Jim woke up one morning. He got ready to go to the store. It began to rain outside. Jim grabbed his umbrella but noticed a hole in it. Jim decided to stay inside and go to the store later.
Tim was drinking and watching television. An intense scene came up. It made Tim jump up. He accidentally kicked over his glass of water. Tim felt silly and cleaned it up.
It was a raining night. It was too bad to go out. So Tina had to stay home. Tina had to cook. She wasn't happy about that.
Arnold worked in a large office area. He didn't have his own separate room. He had to share a cubicle with another person for six months. Finally he got a promotion and a corner office after a big sale. The guy he shared with got his own cubicle at least.
Megan heard a loud bang. She ran outside to investigate it. An old man was shooting cans with a pistol! She screamed at him to stop. He looked at her and laughed.
The economy was collapsing. A lot of people started taking their money out. The banks fell apart. People got scared. The banks scrambled for stabilization.
Jill had a credit card payment due in a couple of days. She didn't have enough money to pay for it. Jill started to stress out over her finances. Jill called her parents and explained her situation. Her parents lent her $100 in order to cover her bill.
We visited our friends in Buffalo in the summer of 1999. We went to a park. After a few hours it started hailing. The car was dented by golf sized balls of hail. We had never seen such a powerful hailstorm.
I bought an expensive RC car. And I was eager to try it out. I drove it in my front yard and through the street. But my neighbor's pit bull chased after it. I asked for a new RC car after the pit bull destroyed it.
Meredith decided to go to the beach. She packed her surfboard. When she got to the beach, she saw that the waves were very large. Meredith wanted to surf but decided that it was not safe. Meredith loved surfing, but she always put safety first.
Kate was at a club. She was having a good time and feeling relaxed. A guy she had been ignoring walked by showing the tattoo on his arm. Without thinking Kate touched the tattoo and caught his attention. She was mortified when she realized what she had done.
Our field trip to Pizza Hut was a lot of fun. We were allowed in the kitchen, where we were shown how to make pizza. We each made our own pizzas to cook in the oven. Since we were little, we weren't allowed to use the ovens ourselves. We ate in the dining room before going back to school.
Sam was out with friends on a school night. He was having too much fun. Sam decided to stay out longer. When he got home his parents were angry. He was grounded over the weekend.
Mal was always cleaning. She cleaned her home, her work everywhere until the mop broke. She needed a new one and asked her boss for another. Her boss didn't just get her another. He got her a dozen new mops, even one's for her house.
The pilot asked the cabin to be seated. The stewardess was not sure why. She felt afraid. She fastened her seatbelt. She knew the plane was doomed to crash.
Frank was the best shooter in his basketball team. The team was down by two points. His team had the ball, there was ten seconds on the clock. His teammate threw him the ball and john caught it, John shot the ball at last minute and scored a three.
Rebekah is very fearful of snakes. She woke up one night and went to use the restroom. She felt around in the dark trying to find the light switch. She saw a huge king snake as soon as she turned on the light. She quickly went to wake up her husband to get the snake.
It looked like the perfect day for the beach. We checked the weather report and it agreed so we headed out. After sitting in traffic for what felt like forever, we were there. The waves had picked up since we left home. It was a good day to surf, but we had packed snorkel gear.
They couldn't decide where to move. They wanted a state that provided what they needed. They definitely didn't want to live in the south anymore. They looked and thought for months. They ended up picking Colorado.
Trey went to the store to buy ingredients for a soup. He bought vegetables and meat and broth. He went home and started the soup. He cut up vegetables and meat and put them in the broth with seasoning He heated up the pot of food until it was hot enough to eat.
Heidi was feeling spoiled. She renovated her backyard and added an amazing outdoor kitchen. It had a special pizza oven! She couldn't wait to make amazing pizzas in it every weekend. She was having a party to test it out soon.
Kevin was making pasta one night. He started smelling something gross on the stove. He thought it was the food but the food was normal. Then he realized it was plastic burning on the burner. Somehow, a piece of trash had stuck to the pan and burned.
Tom's alarm did not go off. He woke up very late. He had to rush through his morning routine. He was ten minutes late to work! Luckily, his boss did not notice.
Roy was driving home from work one day. There was a keyboard on the side of the road. Roy stopped and picked it up. He brought it home and turned it on. Every key worked except for one.
Sneha always had tea with her lunch. It became a part of her daily routine. There was a day when Sneha forgot to bring tea to work. The water tasted bitter and her lunch was ruined. Sneha devised a notification system on her phone to prevent such days.
Alex had been fired. He decided to seek work. Alex went to a job fair. While there Alex scheduled an interview with a company. Alex did great at the interview and received a job offer.
It was a sunny afternoon. Jill was walking her dog around her neighborhood. All of a sudden, a stray cat appeared out of nowhere. The stray cat started hissing at her dog. Her dog got scared and hid behind Jill.
I was feeling extremely bored. I decided to play with some matches. I accidentally set my backyard on fire. The firefighters and police came. The police arrested me and charged me with arson.
Steve and Eric got out of school early. They went to have pizza at Pizza Chef. Steve thought he would get home his usual time. He didn't have his phone to let his mom know he might be late. He got grounded for not letting his mom know what he was doing.
A single woman dreamed of one day having a husband. So the single woman put an ad on Craigslist seeking a relationship. The single woman got an email message from a young man. The young man sent a picture that she found attractive. She and the young man went on to date and eventually got married.
My favorite book was on sale at the bookstore. I happily bought it so I could experience it again. However, it was so long that I had no time to read it. I decided to trade the book in for the audio version. That way I could listen to it while I ran errands.
John and Savannah bought an old house. It needed a lot of work to fix it up. Every weekend they worked fixing it up. They bought antiques to furnish it with. When they finished, it was considered the jewel of the neighborhood.
Jeff listens to music while working out at the gym. He hates how the cord of his headphones always gets in the way. He saw a guy at the gym with wireless headphones. Jeff looked them up on amazon and bought a pair. He now works out cord free and with no distractions.
Sally was looking through her wardrobe one day and saw a shirt. It was a shirt she liked, so she put it on. Sally saw she was late to work, so she rushed out. At work, everyone started laughing at her. She looked down and realized the shirt had holes in it.
Jonah was a mail carrier. He hated delivering the sales papers every week. He started to throw the sales papers. People on his route began to complain. Jonah got in trouble for not delivering the sales papers.
Stevens loved to donate to charity. He donated because he knew people needed money. One day, he got a call. It was the president thanking him. Now, Stevens makes sure to donate as much as possible.
Yesterday we had takeout dinner. We had just returned from Tanglewood, 120 miles away. We were very tired. We ordered subs from a local pizza shop. I was stuffed after eating only half of a sub.
Alex and Kiley were hanging out one weekend. They decided to watch a movie one morning. When it ended they decided to just put on another. Soon they found themselves watching movies for days in a row. They didn't come out of their marathon until the end of the weekend.
The sweet husky stared up at her. She couldn't resist those brown eyes. She grunted at her human mother. The woman reached down and pet her. She gave her lots of doggie kisses.
My daughter came home from college. Se showed up at my door yesterday. I had no idea she was coming. I was so happy to see her face. We had a very good visit.
I wanted to paint my house. I went to the store to buy paint. I bought some green paint. I painted the house green! My wife hated it and said she wanted me to paint it back to white.
Sean was having a slow day at work. He tried busying himself with little tasks but none were useful. He was so bored that he even had time to read on his phone. Finally the end of the day began to approach. Sean almost couldn't believe he hoped for a busy next day.
Larry was out to eat. His card got denied. He called his bank. His paycheck hadn't gone in and he was overdrafted. He got an extra fee on top of it.
Rick bought a house in the middle of the woods. He spent the next two months clearing away the trees. He made a pile of all the logs that he cut. Rick put up a sign to sell his wood. Rick was able to make a lot of money selling the wood.
Laughter and fun times was always important to Ellie. Her day at the carnival offered her this opportunity. She had planned to ride on everything at the carnival. It began to rain at the carnival causing Ellie to seek shelter. Once the rain had passed Ellie went back to enjoying her day.
I went on the splash mountain ride last week. At first it was a peaceful ride. We went into a calm tunnel. Then we dropped unexpectedly. I was scared.
When growing up I had neighbors that I hardly knew about. They invited me to their house. I noticed right away they had a pool. I asked them if we can go swimming and they said sure. I ended up going to their house all the time during the summer.
Bob and Jill had just moved into their first home. Jill's parents got together with Bob's and all threw them a party. There were gifts, cake, wine, and sodas for everyone. Bob and Jill had a wonderful evening with friends. They finally felt at home.
Eva trained for months to become a licensed agent in a call center. During the holidays, she was finally called into work. Eva worked two full days in the call center at the end of the year. When she came in the third day, they told her she was laid off. Her boss felt so bad that he gave her a lead on a new job.
Larry wanted to be a dog for Halloween. Dave searched everywhere for a dog costume Dave couldn't find a dog costume. Dave went to the craft store. Dave made a dog costume.
Clementine was working out every day. She wanted to lose weight and get healthy. She hired a trainer and put in an hour of work every day. She stayed focused on the goals she had set. At the end of the month, she'd lost ten pounds and could run a mile!
It was Lucy's first trip to Dylan's Candy Bar in Chicago. The moment Lucy walked into the candy store, she was amazed. The flooring was covered in candy pieces and the room was colorful. Lucy immediately ran upstairs to the chocolate fountain to taste. By the time Lucy had walked out of the store, she had spent $100.
Rose gave an order to the driver. He got mad and decided to drive off without paying. The boss got mad at rose and told her to leave. She threw her hat down and said that she doesn't want to work. The boss ends up firing her.
Michael wanted to get into a good college. He studied hard and participated in lots of school activities. He applied to the college he wanted to attend, and he was accepted. Michael was so excited! He was very proud of his accomplishment.
Lana and Nicole were always good friends. They shared everyday and every activity together. When they grew older, they shared friends. But Lana crossed the line and shared Nicole's Boyfriend. Though hurt Nicole forgave her to save their friendship.
Alice had very long hair. One day, she decided to get it cut. She was nervous because she'd never had short hair before. The whole time she was in the barber's chair, she was nervous. However, when she saw her new short hair, she loved it!
Marie needed a new textbook. Luckily they had the one she needed online. She quickly ordered it. When she got it she unpacked it. It was perfect.
Allie saw a new girl at school. She decided to introduce herself. The girl ended up being mean. Allie then apologized to her. The girl ignored her and walked away.
Jeremiah was a policeman who got injured while on duty. He spent two weeks watching tv on the couch in his cast. Wanting to get back to work, he walked into the police station. He had his cast on him, but he claimed he was ready for duty. His boss sent him home and thought he was crazy.
Lily the dog was about to die. Tina had taken her to the vet. The vet asked if she wanted to hold her. Tina said no. She couldn't be in the room.
Terry remained in the hospital for several days. The doctor discharged him today. He also warned Terry to be careful since he was anemic. After the week ended, he suffered from a falling injury. Since he lost a lot of blood, he passed out.
I lost my cellphone the other day. I looked all over the place for it. Eventually I checked my pants in the washing machine. I found my cell phone there, but it was all wet. Now I'll have to buy a new cellphone.
Brandon played football for his school. He and his teammates practiced for their big game. Their coach was very pleased with the team's progress. They went to play the game. Brandon scored the last point and won the game.
Hank practiced his guitar to play in a jazz band. He got on stage with the group for his first performance. Hank was very nervous but thought he'd done well. He looked into the audience to see what they thought. They clapped in approval at what he'd played.
Jane wanted to be class president. She knew she didn't have enough popularity to get the votes. Jane decided to stuff the ballot box. She was easily found out. She was reprimanded and lectured thoroughly.
Candy's daughter returned from school. Her daughter was hungry. Candy didn't want to spoil the girl's appetite. She gave her daughter an apple to snack on. Candy served her daughter dinner a few hours later.
Nick was a young boy who wanted to play with dolls. His father shouted at him for playing with dolls. Nick didn't understand what was wrong with dolls. Nick decided to play with dolls in his closet in secret. Unfortunately, his father found out and grounded him for a month.
Allie loved makeup. She went to the store try to some on. She painted a lot of foundation on. Allie looked in the mirror. She was shocked at how good she looked.
It has been raining for 3 days and the ground is soaked. The forecast calls for rain again tonight and issued a flood warning. All my grass seed has washed away and the grass is very tall. Some of the local rivers are near flood stage and it's getting scary. We're going to have to put out more sandbags to protect our house.
A New Mexican restaurant opened up. It looked good. Nance wanted to go. When she went she loved it. She was happy it was good.
Red hates his boss. He felt very mistreated and taken advantage of. He always knew one day he would have enough and explode. He drank a little too much last night and made some drunk phone calls. He found out the next day when his boss let him know he was fired.
One of my niece's college roommates has an odd smile. She never shows her teeth. I asked my niece about this. She said her roommate actually has nice teeth. She just thinks it's neat to smile that way.
Sam was at a pool party. And she wanted to show her friends that she could swim. So she swam across the whole pool and across the deep end. But she struggled to stay afloat. Her friends had to call an ambulance.