WEEK 4 READING FRIDAY

For Gerald's birthday Queen gave him a flashlight and gave him permission to explore the basement. In the basement Gerald found one of Aunt Queen's wheelchairs. She also gave him permission to disable the wheelchair. Gerald took the wheelchair apart  and made  his version of a "go cart." Gerald played with it in the basement and then it began to get cold and so he decided to bring up to play with it the warm apartment. GErald moves it up stairs and he begins to play with it and make more adjustments. He now has moved it put side to Aunt Queen's porch and plays with his"go cart" on her ramp. Aunt Queen gets mad and tells him to stop. He had done one thing to change her mind. He put sand paper on her ramp so that she wouldn't go sliding down and into the street when it rains. One day Gerald decided to go to the steep hill that leads to the street and play while Aunt Queen was sleep. Bad decision.  He had done it a few times and then he decided to go faster after he had boosted his confidence about the hill. Another bad decision. He rolled around the curb and then one of his wheels popped rite off. He couldn't stop he tried to  but he just couldn't.  He saw a a car around the curb comming from the right and another one coming from the left. His only option was to jump, into the trash cans, and he did. He jumped and his "go cart" rolled to its destruction. the the first car  hit it and messed it up pretty bad but he kept going. The other came and finished the poor "go cart" that Gerald made to its end. The second car stopped to check on Gerald and made sure that he was alright and then brought him back to Aunt Queen, she was furious. She was silent for about five minutes. Then she yelled at him and told him to NEVER as long as he lived on the earth to do anything like that to possibly kill himself. He finally gave in and gave him a hug, and told him that she loved him.