Tragic Asparagus Story
The Tragic Asparagus Story
Chapter One
The very first time I saw asparagus I hated it. I had never even tried it before, and I still hated it! I tried to pretend like it was not even there and just eat the rest of the meal, but when I was about to get up my dad looked over at my plate and immediately said, “No, you may not go ‘till you have eaten all of that asparagus.”
I knew right then and there that there was no way out of it. I lifted a minuscule bite to my mouth and tasted it. YUCK!!! Gross! I made a hysterical face and pushed my plate towards the center of the table. There, after a couple of minutes of thinking, an idea suddenly came to me.
Slowly, I scraped some of the food into my napkin and put it in my cat’s food dish. She ate
the
Chapter One
The very first time I saw asparagus I hated it. I had never even tried it before, and I still hated it! I tried to pretend like it was not even there and just eat the rest of the meal, but when I was about to get up my dad looked over at my plate and immediately said, “No, you may not go ‘till you have eaten all of that asparagus.”
I knew right then and there that there was no way out of it. I lifted a minuscule bite to my mouth and tasted it. YUCK!!! Gross! I made a hysterical face and pushed my plate towards the center of the table. There, after a couple of minutes of thinking, an idea suddenly came to me.
Slowly, I scraped some of the food into my napkin and put it in my cat’s food dish. She ate
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