In the essay ‘Take Me out of Their Ball Game’ by Maria Guhde Keri, the author illustrates a prevalent situation in any child's life, “Did you ever walk into a room where kids are playing, say, a board game? They're animated, excited, totally focused on what they're doing. When you appear, they stiffen, grow quiet, and appear confused. An adult is watching, and suddenly the game and rules are changed-maybe even ruined.” In this scenario the presence of an authority figure sours the mood. This can connect to an event that happened to me when am adult muddled my plans.
A year ago my friend and I had planned a trip together. We had been friends for long time, so we had fantasised about travelling together many times throughout our childhoods. …show more content…
We waited in line for about 40 minutes till we went through security, then we were officially at the music festival. We had just left the merch booth when the first text came, I never read it myself but I believe it along the lines of ‘How are you?’ it was innocent enough, she was just inquiring about the status of her daughter. Throughout the night the texts became more rapidly occurring and more intense, I could see that my friend became progressively more and more stressed and anxious as the night went on, she would constantly be worried that she would miss so much as a single text from her mother, which was very likely to happen since we had earned spots extremely close to the stage, the music was so loud we could feel the beat strongly in our chests, so how could either of us hear a phone ring? Eventually the first day of the festival came to a close at 11:45 pm. When we were picked up we were both tired, sore and hungry from standing up all day in order to be at the front, to get our money's full worth we reasoned. Second we were in the car my friend was chewed out for not answering her mother's texts fast enough, I found this unreasonable, but I said nothing.
The second day of the festival went the same as the day before, loud music, constant texts, and a stressed and anxious friend. The ride back to the Super 8 was slightly different as the conversation was turned to how often my mother texted me. When
A year ago my friend and I had planned a trip together. We had been friends for long time, so we had fantasised about travelling together many times throughout our childhoods. …show more content…
We waited in line for about 40 minutes till we went through security, then we were officially at the music festival. We had just left the merch booth when the first text came, I never read it myself but I believe it along the lines of ‘How are you?’ it was innocent enough, she was just inquiring about the status of her daughter. Throughout the night the texts became more rapidly occurring and more intense, I could see that my friend became progressively more and more stressed and anxious as the night went on, she would constantly be worried that she would miss so much as a single text from her mother, which was very likely to happen since we had earned spots extremely close to the stage, the music was so loud we could feel the beat strongly in our chests, so how could either of us hear a phone ring? Eventually the first day of the festival came to a close at 11:45 pm. When we were picked up we were both tired, sore and hungry from standing up all day in order to be at the front, to get our money's full worth we reasoned. Second we were in the car my friend was chewed out for not answering her mother's texts fast enough, I found this unreasonable, but I said nothing.
The second day of the festival went the same as the day before, loud music, constant texts, and a stressed and anxious friend. The ride back to the Super 8 was slightly different as the conversation was turned to how often my mother texted me. When