behind neighbors

Just about a week ago, I was "between a rock and a hard place". I was playing catch with my brother in my backyard, and punted the ball over the fence into my behind neighbor’s yard. Now, you’re probably thinking no big deal, just go get it. Well, these people are scary. It is the real life Sandlot. There have been many frightening incidents in the past, one involving me and 2 friends being adventurous and trying to “spy” on a little party they were having. Well, let’s just say it ended up with a fire cracker, a fake bb gun, and me falling off the ladder and running away half laughing half being scared beyond belief. Even though I know they would never intentionally hurt us, they are pretty intimidating, with their rather odd characters that come and go from their property every day, to the 4 vicious (I’m sure their not as bad as my imagination has made them out to be after all of these years) dogs that bark constantly at us while we are outside. Anyways, my brother really needed that ball for recess, and I needed to jump over and get it. I guess I should have just gone over to their doorbell, but I don’t think they like me very much. So I crept through some yards to get to the side of their fence, and I jumped over. When I was in, everything just turns on and you get the feeling of being like a Marine. I ran at the ball and as I was running, guess what, the dogs came out. I luckily jumped over the fence fast before they could maul (probably just sniff) me. I skinned my knees jumping over, because I don’t have the biggest hops, but I got the ball back and I think I probably should have just asked them for the ball, because they probably aren’t as bad as I think they are.

High Heat

Last year, I read the book High Heat, by Carl Deuker. This book is about a kid my age who is a talented pitcher for his high school baseball team. When his dad, owner of a big company, gets busted for fraud ends up committing suicide, Shane (main character) loses all of his old riches, including his house and nice private school. He moves to a poor part of town, to a poor school, where he wonders if he even wants to play baseball again. He ends up playing, but he gets very annoyed at the kid who moved in to his old huge house. This kid also took his spot on his old baseball team, and is now their star player. This makes Shane very jealous. In a game against his old school, he beans this kid right in the head with a fastball, causing a serious injury to the kid and to both his and Shane’s potential scholarships. I have been jealous of many people before and what I do is I usually try to forget about the “cool stuff” or anything that the person has, and just be happy with what I have. It’s not getting what you want, its wanting what you’ve got, and I learned that sometimes the people that you are jealous of, also may be jealous of you. I would just try to be satisfied with what I have because if you are never satisfied, then why even try to be happy in the first place?