Old Finn Diary Entries
Diary Entries
BOOK TITLE: Keeping Safe the Stars
TOTAL # of BOOK PAGES: 295
Page Range: 53-60
Entry #1: Today I went into town to see if Old Finn was getting better. Since the last time I went to see him they said that they would need to see my mother to give her all the information. I had to lie and tell them that mother would be there to see them, I could not tell them the truth. I went to Miss Addie’s and she them covered me in makeup and gave me a wig to dress up older so that I would look just like mother. It takes three miles to get into town, but once I got to the hospital, Susie at the front desk knew it was me. Once she said my name I ran into the bathroom and stuffed my wig into my bag and washed all of the makeup of my face, …show more content…
Once we got done placing our signs around the highway hoping lots of rich tourist would see and at least spend a dollar, we needed anything to get to be able to see Old Finn again. Then finally about twenty minutes after we got home from placing the signs up our first customer appeared, a snobby old mother with two spoiled rich kids. I could then tell this was not going to go down well. First what I remember was that she was being rude to Nightingale she was making fun of her pajamas. All she was doing was sitting on our broken swing set smoking lots of cigars. Before this I told baby to not sare or personal information with the customers, so i just wanted to do the talking. He then did not follow what I said, and told the rude mom that father was dead. The two boys hopped on the ponies and were having so much fun that they would not get of after their turn was up. So, I then had to stop one of the ponies to yank the first child of. I all i did was gently lift the boy of, but he then kicked me in the gut. Witch made me drop the boy only about a half a foot. He then started to yell and cry saying that his ankle was broken. I knew it was not. Even though we had a horrible first customer we were not ready to give up, not just
BOOK TITLE: Keeping Safe the Stars
TOTAL # of BOOK PAGES: 295
Page Range: 53-60
Entry #1: Today I went into town to see if Old Finn was getting better. Since the last time I went to see him they said that they would need to see my mother to give her all the information. I had to lie and tell them that mother would be there to see them, I could not tell them the truth. I went to Miss Addie’s and she them covered me in makeup and gave me a wig to dress up older so that I would look just like mother. It takes three miles to get into town, but once I got to the hospital, Susie at the front desk knew it was me. Once she said my name I ran into the bathroom and stuffed my wig into my bag and washed all of the makeup of my face, …show more content…
Once we got done placing our signs around the highway hoping lots of rich tourist would see and at least spend a dollar, we needed anything to get to be able to see Old Finn again. Then finally about twenty minutes after we got home from placing the signs up our first customer appeared, a snobby old mother with two spoiled rich kids. I could then tell this was not going to go down well. First what I remember was that she was being rude to Nightingale she was making fun of her pajamas. All she was doing was sitting on our broken swing set smoking lots of cigars. Before this I told baby to not sare or personal information with the customers, so i just wanted to do the talking. He then did not follow what I said, and told the rude mom that father was dead. The two boys hopped on the ponies and were having so much fun that they would not get of after their turn was up. So, I then had to stop one of the ponies to yank the first child of. I all i did was gently lift the boy of, but he then kicked me in the gut. Witch made me drop the boy only about a half a foot. He then started to yell and cry saying that his ankle was broken. I knew it was not. Even though we had a horrible first customer we were not ready to give up, not just