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I work here at Rockvale Elementary on us steady a Brittany Mullinax Martin also a study Elementary and we are going to be reading chapter 11 TV your question of the day is how does AJ take Humphrey home hi there this is Miss Rockwell and I am reading chapter 11 to you TV or not TV wow Friday was a great adventure because AJ took me on the school bus it was noisy and smelly and very very bumpy and just know everyone on the bus wanted to get a good look at me including the driver Victoria it was exciting almost too exciting because AJ couldn't hold my cage study and I was slipping and sliding and bouncing until I was quite dizzy sorry Humphrey I'm trying to hold still Jay told me as someone bumped his elbow and sent me sprawling on the floor of my cage it's all right I squeaked weekly the best let us off at AJ's house it was a two-story house with a big porch as soon as I entered I got a warm welcome from AJ's mom is younger brother Ty his little sister daily and his baby brother Bo Anthony James introduce us to your little friend his mom say add greeting Anthony James everybody has school called AJ by his initials or just age this is Humphrey he answered hello Humphrey then this is Thomas so how was Jay Anthony Rousey guard kept shooting rubberbands at me he won't leave me alone but you get you used to be friends his mother said used to be that AJ until he turned into a shirt mom patted her son on the shoulder well you got a whole weekend to get over it now take Humphrey into the den and get him settled mrs. Brisbane called him lower your voice AJ because Ajo always talk extra loud in class I say noticed that everybody and AJ's house talked extra loud they had to because in the background the TV was always blaring now every house I've been in so far has had a TV even this Mac had a TV and I enjoyed some of the shows I've seen with her there's one show that has nothing but the most frightening shows about wild animals attacking one another I mean wild like tigers and bears and hippopotamus G I hope that's not on our vocabulary test in the near future those shows make me appreciate the protection of a nice cage as long as the lock doesn't quite lock there's another channel that only has people in funny-looking clothes dancing dancing and singing and very strange places it makes me glad that I have fur coat and don't have to figure out what to wear everyday mostly I like cartoon shows sometimes they have mice and rabbits and other interesting rodents although I've never seen a hamster show yet anyway the difference is at the Thomas's house that the television is on all the time there's a TV on the table across from the Big Comfy Couch and a big comfy chair in someone's almost always sitting there watching I know because they put my case down on the floor next to the couch I had a very good view of the TV I couldn't always hear the TV though because AJ's mother had a rate go in the kitchen which was always blaring most of the time while she cooked or did crossword puzzles or talked on the phone no matter what she did the radio was always on when AJ's dad came home from work he play down on the couch and watch TV while he played down while he played with the baby Ben AJ and Ty plugged in some video games and played while Dad watched daily listen to the radio with her mom and Dancer the kitchen when it was time for dinner the whole family took place and sat down in the den so they could watch TV while they ate then they watch TV the more they made popcorn and kept watching finally the went to bed the baby first then they lie in the later tying AJ after they were all in their rooms mr. and mrs. Thomas kept watching TV and I ate some ice cream later mrs. Thomas find loudly I've had it Charlie I'm going to bed and I suggest you do too she said but Mr Thomas just kept on watching or at least he kept on sitting there until he fell asleep on the couch get up watching the rest of the wrestling match without him unfortunately the wrestler I was reading for the war of Glory lost finally mr. Thomas woke up Ian licked off the TV and went upstairs to bed Peace at Last but the quiet only lasted about 10 minutes soon mom brought Bo downstairs and gave him a bottle while she watch TV when both finally fell asleep mrs. Thomas John and flipped off the TV blessed relief 5 minutes later mr. Thomas returned sorry hamster can't sleep he mumbled to me as he flicked on the remote he watched and watching and doze off again but the TV stayed on leaving me no choice but to watch a string of commercials for car waxes weight-reducing programs exercise machine machines and red-hot harmonica class the combination of being nocturnal and being bombarded with Sight & Sound kept me wide awake at the crack of dawn delete tiptoed into the room dragging her doll by its hair and switched the cartoon show about princesses she watched another show about cats and dogs scary then mr. Thomas woke up and wanted to check some sports scores mrs. Thomas handed him the maybe in his bottle and send the older boys switched over to video games and their parents watch them play it was loud loud loud but the Thomas's didn't seem to notice what do you want for breakfast mom doubted what Dad shouted louder what do you want for breakfast mom yelled toaster waffles dad yelled louder I can't hear the TV Collard turning up the volume do you want G mom screamed can't hear you Dad responded and so it went with each new question the sound on the TV would be turned up higher and higher until it was positively then Mom switched on her radio the Thomas's were a perfectly nice family but I could tell it was going to be a very long and noisy weekend unless I came up with a plan so I find my wheel for a while to help me think and I thought and thought and thought some more and then it came the big idea and I probably would have come up with it sooner if I could have heard myself think around noon the Thomas's were all watching the football game on TV or rather mr. Thomas was watching the football game on TV while AJ and Ty shouted questions out of mrs. Thomas was in the kitchen listen the radio and talking on the phone daily played peekaboo with the baby in the Cozy chair no one was watching me so I carefully open the lock that doesn't lock on my cage and made a quick exit naturally no one can hear me skittering across the floor as I made my way around the outside of the room over to the space behind the TV cabinet then with great effort I managed to pull out the plug one of the most difficult Feats of my life the TV was silent beautifully blissfully silently silent so silent I was afraid to move I waited by in the cabinet Frozen the Thomas's stared at the TV screen as the picture slowly went dark high did you get that remote mr. Thomas asked know it's under the table Anthony go turn that thing on again mr. Thomas said they jumped up and hit the power button on the TV nothing happened it's broken he exclaimed mrs. Thomas rushed in from the kitchen what happened mr. Thomas explained that the TV is gone off and they discussed how old it was five years whether it had a guarantee no one knew and if if mr. Thomas could fix it and everything was fine and it went off just like that I guess we better take it in to get fixed mr. Thomas said how long will it take delete asked in a whiny voice I don't know her dad replied how much will it cost mrs. Smith asked oh yeah her husband said I forgot we're a little low on the funds right now the baby began to cry I thought the rest of the family might start trying to well I get paid next Friday dad said AJ jumped up and waved his hand that's a whole week away I'm going to Grandma's house her TV work bedtime delete chimed in Grandma's got her Bridge Club over there tonight mom said I know said Dad let's go to a movie do you know how much it cost to go to a movie mom asked besides we can't take baby oh they wind and Vickers for quite a while they got so loud I managed to Scamper back to my cage unnoticed then I guess I dozed off remember I'd hardly had a wink of sleep since I arrived the bickering was a nice soothing background after all that racket I was only half asleep when this wobbling changed but there's nothing to do delay wind her father chuckle nothing to do there all my brothers and I used to spend weekends at my grandma's house and she's never had a TV wouldn't allow it what did you do a Jason we were busy every minute he recalled weave cards and board games and word game and we dug in the garden and played tag he chuckled again A lot of times we just sat on the porch and talk my grandma she could talk what you talk about I wondered though she tell us stories about her growing up about ghosts and funny things like the time her uncle was walking in his sleep and went to church and his pajamas mrs. Thomas gas oh go on now Charlie I'm just telling you what she told us he woke up in the middle of the service look down and there he was and is blue and white striped pajamas I let out a squeak of surprise and all the kids giggle been missing Thomas told his story about a girl in her class who came to school in her slippers by accident one day yes the fuzzy kind she explained with a big smile they talked and talked and died out some cards and they played a game called Crazy 8 and another one called Pig where they put their fingers on their noses and laugh like hyenas when both of us they took turns giggling him on their knees after a while mrs. Thomas yeah this is thinks it's an hour past your bedtime the children are all grown and asked if they could play cards tomorrow and then a few minutes all the Thomas's has gone to bed and it was quiet quiet fire for the first time since I'd arrived tip 11 be careful if that free hamsters are experts at disappearing in a room

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