The Phases Kat Went Through and Her Little Lost Dog

Anytime Kat wanted something she usually got it. There wasn’t anything her parents wouldn’t do to make her happy. When she was six years old she wanted a Holly Hobby EZ bake oven like the ones she saw on tv. The first time she put her chocolate chip cupcakes into the oven, they spilled all over the inside, burning to a crisp and making a huge mess. “You have to clean up your own mess”, her mother said. Yuck, Kat thought. It was too hard to cook, and too much work to clean up, so Kat buried that EZ bake oven in the back of her closet, never to play with it again.

When Kat was seven years old, she wanted a goldfish like her brother Joey had. Her parents went out and bought her a fish bowl, pretty gravel rock and the most beautiful orange and white goldfish with black spots that she had ever saw. Kat named that fish Bert. She loved watching the fish swim back and forth, but, Kat hated having to remember to feed Bert every single day. It was hard and sometimes she forgot. More than feeding Bert, Kat hated the dirty mess the fish bowl turned into whenever she did feed him. So without telling anyone she started skipping meal time for Bert. Until one day, the fish went belly up, and she had to bury Bert at sea.
When Kat was eight and a half years old all of her friends were into skateboarding. So of course so did Kat. She begged her parents for a skateboard, and she promised to play and practice it all the time. The very next weekend her parents went out and bought her a skateboard with all the safety gear. At first Kat refused to wear the helmet and pads, because she thought she looked like a dork, but her parents said to wear them or no board. So everyday for a week Kat went outside dressed in gear from head to toe and rode her skateboard. It looks so easy for all my friends, Kat thought. But she soon found out that it was anything but easy. As a matter of fact, it was hard work. And we all know Kat hated hard work. So for a while she carried her board around with her, not actually spending much time on it, but it looked pretty cool in her hands. Within another week, Kat tossed the skateboard into the back of the garage and there it sits collecting dust to this day.