Jet Bikes

Have you ever run a business from a playhouse? My friends and I have. It is a bike shop. We call it Jet Bikes.

One day my friend Trent asked me and my brother Jared if we wanted to build a bike shop out of his old playhouse. Jared and I said, “Yes.” So we went to get permission from my mom to go to Trent’s house and get started.

The first thing we did was get some things out of his garage. We got old, rusty bolts; new, shiny nuts; black tape; wrenches; half-empty cans of oil; and screws. Then we built a new roof for the playhouse. We also had to clean the dirt and leaves out of it.

So far we’ve only worked on our own bikes because not many people know about our shop. We had to fix Trent’s chain a few times. We also had to fix his tire because it would go flat every five minutes. We changed the inner tube and also used some stuff called “No More Flats.” Now it never goes flat!

When we are older, we plan on putting signs up around town and maybe even have a Web site. We will work on bikes as big as 20 speeds and as small as bikes with training wheels. We hope to have a lot of customers.

Do you think you’ll ever come here with a bike for my friends and me to work on? I hope so because it would be fun to have some customers, and it might be fun for you to have kids fix your bike!

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SECOND EXAMPLE

Day of Destiny

It was a humid day in July, the Key Bank sign said that it was 85 degrees outside. That day my mom drove me to The Smithfield Theater. I had an important job to do. The job was more of a personal goal. It was to make people laugh.

The catch was that if I was to stand up in front of a theater of people and tell a couple of jokes then I would get to see the movie “Mission Impossible” free.

When I got to the theater I was sweating like a pig. The librarian that signed me up was dressed in a clown suit. She said, “Are we ready to make people laugh?”

I feebly answered, “Yes…”

When I got inside the theater a guy was already telling some lame jokes. Then, when everyone was seated he called my name, “C’mon down Zachary Williams!”

As I reached the first step to the stage I had about a hundred butterflies in my stomach. By the third step they multiplied. But then, very abruptly, when I reached for the microphone all of the butterflies disappeared. When I was done telling the jokes I didn’t turn red or anything, I just smiled. I noticed the size of the crowd and unexpectedly I knew what I was going to be when I grew up, I knew why God had put me on this green earth, it was because I was going to become… a comedian.

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