I ran away

Chatterbox: Down to Earth

I ran away

I ran away again. I'll spare you guys the details. So yeah. I'm still bad and am still overreacting to small things. Whatevs. Anyway, a lone HypQuest (why is no one else making some?):

What would you do if a dragon and a Sacred Flaming Gorilla (see http://www.cricketmagkids.com/chatterbox/inkwell/node/125337 ) were having a contest in your living room to see who could make the biggest flames, and were lighting a lot of your things on fire in the process?

Call the fire department and help evacuate my family before the house burned down. Actually, do those two tasks in the opposite order, using a neighbor's phone to get the fire department.

submitted by Joe the Stickfiddler, age 14, Ran Away Vortex
(January 19, 2014 - 3:55 pm)

back to the Down to Earth

Goodness, just be careful. Use the time to breathe and clear your head.

I would become absolutely livid, because everything I own has a very important and dear value to me. If it were to be destroyed like that, I might very well fall apart. So I would grab my broom, and beat the livin' daylights outa them. Then grab a fire extinguisher, spray the fire, them, then club 'em upside the head with the fire extinguisher. Yeah, I would be mad.

submitted by Blonde Heroines Rule
(January 19, 2014 - 9:42 pm)

To answer the HypQuest: get out of the house. Call the fire department. Duh.

And to respond to the post as a whole: Joe, I think you might have Borderline Personality Disorder (according to NIMH anyway). You need to talk to a therapist or a counselor or SOMETHING. Just...get help, okay? I don't want you to end up hurting yourself. I'm really tempted to give you some of the hotline numbers but I don't know how the admins will react to that, so...yeah.

submitted by Maggie, age 12, nowhere pleasant
(January 19, 2014 - 9:46 pm)

And now I'm going to top this. TOP TOP TOP TOP TOP

submitted by Maggie, age 12, not in a good place
(January 19, 2014 - 9:46 pm)

If you feel it was needed, carry on, but I feel like this could make it worse.

 

Save a few precious things and get the heck out of there.  I'd of course call the fire department. 

submitted by Melody, age 15, Disney
(January 20, 2014 - 9:20 am)

Joe, if you're really upset and unhappy, you could try talking to counselors. It's not good to be unhappy all the time, and if they can help you, then that's good. Of course, that wouldn't really work for me, now would it? *laugh* If you and your parents are arguing, you should try to sit down and talk with them and try to solve your problems. If you have a friend you can trust, you could try talking with them, too, to make yourself feel better. 

And in response to your HypQuest, I would join in, win, and then get yelled at by my mother for blowing up her house.  

submitted by Red, age 14, Elsewhere
(January 20, 2014 - 2:49 pm)

I would take the box of flour and dump it all over them both, and then tell them to get out, and take their fight into the neighbor's house.

@Joe: What's up with your website? Is it down? And are you going to post more parts of your story?

submitted by Blackberry E., age 14
(January 22, 2014 - 3:32 pm)

Yeah, I don't know what my parents did, but it's not helping... they must've gotten my password, changed it, and then taken everything down. Once I'm on the net again, they might undo it. Maybe.

Here's the story. I was at the library to find books about JK Rowling. But because I'm not allowed to use internet right now and they have computers there, my mom was following me around while I was up to this. I just walked off from her, thrice. . . . And then I sprinted out the door and ran away.

Pretty good, huh? I should be the next Doctor. Except that a) I'd need to go to Britain, and b) I'm in a huge load of trouble now. No BBC in their right mind would hire a 14-year-old American boy with records like mine.

So... probably the end of my filmmaking career. Before it even starts. Shucks. Loser I am. I really should have just stayed with mom, or said, "Can you just follow me from a distance?" Or something, but now here I am. At the last existing major physically existing bookstore. B&N.

 

submitted by Joe the Stickfiddler, age 14, Website Vortex
(January 23, 2014 - 7:08 pm)

Admin, what's wrong with the stuff you deleted from this post? I was right you know, the laws of physics did say so!

 

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submitted by Joe the Stickfiddler, Delete Vortex
(January 23, 2014 - 9:05 pm)

Hmm. Is running away fun? Honestly I've always wanted to but then I'd get in major trouble. And I would have to go to Starbucks for wifi to go on cricketmag.

submitted by Legion I., age 13, SD
(January 29, 2014 - 5:27 pm)