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My Birthday Experience

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Seven hours in the car was definitely the birthday present I wanted. Having to wait four extra days to take my permit test made it even better! It was literally down to the last inning, if he had swung a split second later I would get to spend my birthday doing whatever I wanted with my friends. But of course not with my luck. They had to win and drag me out to Omaha for a regional tournament I had no interest in watching. A weekend with my 11 year old brother and 15 of his crazy friends ahead of me made me want to jump out of the car and just get a taxi back home. But since they made it to regionals, I guess I’d prefer they do well and make it even farther. By about the third hour in the car I had about lost my mind. My little brother and his friend screaming made up songs with dumb youtube videos on full volume in the background, I could hardly hear the music through my headphones. I gave up on trying to read the permit book. We stopped at starbucks for the third time on the way there and I decided to see what this hotel looked like. I mean, might as well figure out the places that the little children won’t invade.
“Ten minutes! Get all of your stuff together so I don’t have to sit and wait when we finally get there,” shouted my dad. The one thing he couldn’t stand was sitting in the car when we could’ve been inside already. I guess that would bother me as well if I had just drove seven hours as well. Finally we parked the car. I threw everything to the front and crawled over my brother to get some fresh air and stretch my legs. After a glorious minute, I had no choice but to grab all ten of my bags and get inside unless I wanted to stay out there. I wrapped the handles around my arms and trudged into the lobby where I waited another five minutes trying to stay stable. You could smell the breakfast leftovers and chlorine coming from the pool. I looked over and noticed my dad arguing with the front desk lady. She didn’t look like she was happy to check us in. We ended up getting the room key and I was ready to go set my extra 200 pounds down when I got called over to sign some paper. Both of my parents walked away rolling their eyes, which wasn’t a good sign. I looked over the paper, seeing that I was

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