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Football Monologue

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I had just finished lunch when a group of my classmates decided to start up a game of soccer in the field next to the alligator tanks. I can play soccer. I played when I was like 5, but okay! I’m walking through squishy, muddy grass and thought nothing of it. The boy I really liked at the time starts off the game. Everyone’s getting really into it; knocking people over and talking seventh-grade smack. “You’re going down Zach!” I head for the ball and -- whoosh! God damn it! Why is my butt becoming cold? “Look! She’s got mud all over her butt!” I can’t believe what just happened. I turn completely red. Why God did you make me fall in mud right in front of him? WHY!? With the help of my friend, Katie, I get up and see how bad I’m covered in mud. This ewwy, gooey, dark, brown, smelly thing …show more content…

Mrs. Peno comes into the gift shop and tells me that we only have 15 minutes until we have to load the bus. My pants are still soaking wet. Seriously God! What have I done wrong? I go to church every Sunday and pray every night. I am a good Christian. WHY!? My best friend Katie walks into the gift shop with a nervous look on her face.
“Mary Anne, we need to hurry up they’re lining us up for the bus right now.”
“Oh my gosh, Katie help!”
Katie rushes over to my side and starts wiping down my legs. (If only someone was recording us; we looked like clowns in a clown car). I look down at my legs and we are almost done. Thank you, Lord! I am sorry I ever doubted you. I scream out of the tiny bathroom to Mrs. Peno, “HOW MUCH TIME DO WE HAVE LEFT?”. We only had 2 minutes left. Mrs. Pam is over by the sink trying to dry my shorts off with a hair dryer and the hand dryer. Katie is scrubbing my right leg, while I am doing my left. (I felt like I was on The Amazing Race trying to beat the clock).
“I’m done with the right leg. How about you Mary Anne?”
“Done!” Thank the Lord have

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