{"id":30,"date":"2005-09-02T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-02T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/?p=30"},"modified":"2016-08-04T22:44:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T02:44:53","slug":"the-wild-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/2005\/09\/the-wild-things\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wild Things…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today, I decided to go to the library after school. It’s been over two weeks that I’ve been there and I’m dying to get a book called “Where the Wild Things Are.” <\/p>\n

It is a story of a kid who is not understood at home and runs off to a land where he is king of his kind – the “Wild Things.” <\/p>\n

There’s nobody home anyway so what’s the use of hurrying home to be alone. <\/p>\n

I walk down 156th Street on my usual path and normally I don’t run into any trouble, but today is different. A few blocks from the school, past Prospect Ave, there’s a store where I usually stop to get some candy. The owner is really nice. He talks with me not to me. Always concerned for me being alone. <\/p>\n

“Do your parents know that you are out here alone?” he questions me.
\n“Sure they know. They let me go to the library.” I reply, with my tough guy voice, so that he won’t know that I am telling him a lie. <\/p>\n

No matter what I tell him, he always treats me nice. One time when I did not have any money, he gave me candy for free. <\/p>\n

As I approach the store, a bunch of Savage Skulls come charging out the door and bump into me. <\/p>\n

“What the hell kid! Why did you bump into me?
\nHis friend adds “Yeah! what the hell kid!” <\/p>\n

He grabs me by the chest and lifts me off the ground. At that moment the owner of the store runs out and yells <\/p>\n

“Get out of here you bunch of animals! You wild things!!” <\/p>\n

They all ignore him and continue as if they were the kings of this domain – nobody can touch them. They ignored the screaming lady and ignore me as I yell at them <\/p>\n

“let me down!” <\/p>\n

As I’m dangling, another guy grabs my feet and pulls them up. <\/p>\n

“Nice Keds kid!”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>He pulls out a knife and reaches down to cut the laces in order to take them off my feet, when Max – the leader of the ‘wild things’ walks out the door. <\/p>\n

“Put him down! Lets get out of here before the pigs come! Lets go!” <\/p>\n

Boy that is the closest I’ve come to loosing my… Well, I can’t draw myself to say it. <\/p>\n

The owner takes me inside and gives me a glass of water and some free ice cream. Wow! <\/p>\n

“I know that life is hard here, but I never thought this would happen.”<\/p>\n

Needless to say I did not make it to the library for my book. <\/p>\n

I just went home to where my warm supper must be waiting for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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