Try Try Again to Fail

Frustration.

Oh pooh.

I try to do things the right way, but they just never work.

I have this annoying problem of getting overwhelmed way too easily. I'll just be walking along, minding my own business and BAM! 

I'm overwhelmed.

Looking to positive things, I have an awkward story to share.

Well, it's only awkward for me.

Maybe my sister.

The rest of you will probably find it amusing. Possibly stupid. We shall see.

Awkward moment story:

My sister and I went to let out our neighbor's dogs like we do every afternoon; but today we would be visited by none other than...

Wait.

Not yet.

We were walking down a hill.

I noticed some dudes in some strange machinery driving towards us. I say,

"Maddy! Let's run down the hill so we're at the bottom by the time they reach the hill! Then they won't have to pass us and risk getting hit by a car and thus be dead."

To this my sister replied,

"Whatever."

We sprinted down this hill.

We then proceeded to turn onto the little lane leading to out neighbor's house.

After walking several yards, my sister said,

"Look! The machine car things are turning onto this road!"

My reply,

"Let's run!"

So we ran.

After 7 seconds of running we reached our neighbor's house.

And wasn't it convenient that a strange man from DirecTV was on their roof --

Fixing their satellite.

"Maddy," I said, "Let's walk down to the lake. Maybe he'll be gone by then."

Madeline replied,

"Whatever."

He walked through our neighbor's yard, to the lake, where we observed said body of water. We then walked a large circular path behind our neighbor's house. The looped far to the left, trying to catch a glimpse of Handyman's truck (or, preferably, an empty driveway). I thought the red mobile of cable television was gone to its own homey garage, but nay! it remained parked in the driveway of our neighbor.

I said to Maddy,

"Maddy! Let's hide behind the house, under the porch! If he isn't gone in twenty minutes we'll just go in."

"Whatever."

Within five minutes of secretly standing beneath the wooden platform, we heard a voice.

This I believe to be the cable guy, calling his accomplice to say the house was clear and now he would take all valuable possessions for his own pocket! I devised a plan to stop this perverted act of greed.

My sister felt I was being childish and said,

"You're being stupid. I'm walking around the house."

I paused for a moment.

But I decided I needed to take a risk. My sister could not defend herself on her own!

We walked alongside the right of the house.

We approached the front door, when suddenly...

Our neighbor opened the door.

Apparently she had been home this whole time with DirecTV dude. We went in, stood around awkwardly for a moment, she handed the dogs over to us, Dexter kept jumping on us, neighbor called him "Devil Dog" several times, we did our job, and left.

I realized afterwards, several notable things.

Thing one: Our neighbor's house has many glass windows. In fact, you have a beautiful view of the backyard. For you with lesser IQ's, that means she totally saw us walking around her backyard and then suddenly disappear (under the porch).

Thing two: Our neighbor probably assumes my sister and I are hooligans who walk around people's backyards for a half hour before introducing themselves.

Thing three: The whole event was just very awkward. I said so the whole way home and I'm convinced neither me or my sister will have a job last week.

The only good I feel that come from this was that my day may in fact make a very interesting Julian Smith "Another Awkward Moment" video.

Cheers♥

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