The Miraculous Memoirs (By William)

Everybody has good memories with family. Those memories could be a fond time in childhood or an unforgettable road trip.  Now sit back and relax as you dive into the world in which the miraculous memories of my family thrive.  Enjoy your fascinating ride!

On our first trip, we will spin back the unstoppable hands of time.  I was five years old back then, and my family was visiting Taiwan.  My mom and I were walking through alleys for a hotpot restaurant.  Gray clouds shroud the crisp blue Taiwan sky and blot out the sun.  The sidewalk was slick with moisture, and mist hung around our heads.  We looked forward to sipping the boiling, aromatic soup while cutting through numerous alleys.  As we almost arrived at the main street, a big black stray dog busted out of the dark branch-off alley.  It barked aggressively and didn’t seem friendly enough to allow us pass unscathed. The hound growled deeply and intimidatingly, ears flattened and jaw bristling. It teared at terrifying speed toward us.  “Woosh!” I looked at mom, she had deployed the most useful tool when it rains!  An umbrella.  She hollers for me to hide behind her back, and she used the umbrella as a shield, backing against a brick wall.  I screamed in my shrillest voice, “Help, Help!”  To our relief, help did indeed arrive, a young man came out and shooed the dog away.  We kept that dog-fighting umbrella as a souvenir, and raining days often bring back the hilarious memory of this dog encounter.   

  

As your ride guide, I will now spin the hands of time two weeks after the dog adventure.  Welcome to the Taipei International Airport!  My mom and I were about to leave Taiwan for home, so we’ve arrived in the metallic, bustling hub of an airport.  The air hummed with activities as people from around the globe arrive and depart Taiwan.  We were about to take a fancy-shwancy elevator when an old, gray-haired lady in wheelchair and her family waited in line behind us.  When the elevator door opened with a pleasant ding, I was first to walk into it.  Mom, being ever so courteous, let the old lady went on the elevator first.  Unexpectedly, all her family squeezed in following the wheelchair and there was no space left for my mom with our carry-on luggage.  The elevator door quickly closed with a ding. At the corner of the fully loaded elevator seeing my mom disappeared after the ding, I was filled with fear and anger.  My expression was changing fast, my eyes couldn’t hold up tears, and when I was about to cry out loud the elevator dinged open again.  My mom was anxiously waiting outside, and I busted out the door, started crying and pounded mom with my fists.  Here is my mom side of the story (she wrote the rest of this paragraph) – the elevator door closed so quickly, and I couldn’t get William out in time with wheelchair, people, and luggage blocking him from the door.  I lifted the heavy carry-on luggage and not feeling the heavy weight at all.  All cells in my body burst out the whole energy like there was no tomorrow.  I frantically ran down the stairs without knowing how long the flight of stairs would be, and it ended up to be only one long flight.  I waited outside of the elevator door, and after the door slowly opened, wheelchair rolled out, William was like a bullet flying to me with twisted face and tears all over.  Fortunately he calmed down quickly, and the photo below was taken after we boarded the plane, happy again!

For our last stop, I will turn forward the hands of time to merely a week before today, as I am writing this blog.  Dad discovered a huge housefly flying around in the kitchen.  He attempted killing it with a newspaper roll, but missed.  The fat fly was never to be seen again.  Mom reasoned that since the fly was so fat, it must have fly disease such as fly-diabetes and fly-high-blood-pressure.  Although dad missed, the blow was traumatizing enough to give the fly a heart attack.  Mom said that it must have fainted and fallen right into the trash can.  After she made her statement, we both laughed our butts off. 

Welcome back to the present.  Hope you enjoyed your ride.  One question: what funny memories do you possess?