Have you ever told your parents you don’t want to eat their food In my house it goes something like this Me This tastes like it should be illegal Mom It’s good for you and I’d like you to try it Me I am not in the mood for insert gross food here Mom This is not a restaurant so this is what you’re eating Me Eats gross food but is not happy about it But this morning it went even worse because I refused to eat her eggy pizza which was right around the time I realized I was in a funk and became a worrywart about my next business idea My mom was so annoyed with me that she phoned my mum at work for backup But it sounded like a bad time to call because someone’s dog had just run off with all her pepperoni So Mum said she didn’t have time to talk to me And then my moms got in a fight 6
My brother Mister hates it when our parents argue He just sat there still as a statue at the kitchen table holding his breath as he listened Ever since Mom hung up the phone Mister’s been sitting here all gloomy Remember how I said funks are contagious Well I think mine might have rubbed off on my mom then on my mum and finally on Mister I try to get Mister’s attention because it’s almost time to leave for school but he’s ignoring me So I take the jumbo marble I found in the fruit bowl and aim for his glass of orange juice CLINK Direct hit But then the unthinkable happens The glass teeters and falls over Orange juice streams onto
the table all over the breakfast pizza and all over Mister’s homework You ruined everything shouts Mister holding up his family tree project which is now dripping wet Maybe now it’s an orange tree I say trying to lighten the mood I bet you already know that didn’t work WEDNESDAY WILSON my mom yells Not another word Eat your breakfast and go straight to school She tosses me a cloth to mop up the mess and heads to her art studio without saying goodbye I should have just eaten the breakfast pizza in the first place because now everyoneʼs upset with me and I still have to eat it anyway Could this day get any wor 9
