Thursday, November 12, 2009

Crack! ( essay #3)

Everyone has at least one thing that annoys them more than anything else. That one thing that truly gets under their skin. That one thing that they can’t stand, and the very thought of it makes them cringe. That one thing that I can’t stand, that makes me cringe, is when people crack their body parts. It is the most disturbing sound in the whole entire world, and I hate it.
When people crack their knuckles, necks, and backs it sounds like something in their body is breaking. It sounds like one of their bones is snapping in half. That cracking sound seriously disturbs me. I don’t know how people get pleasure from doing that. Wherever I go there is always someone cracking something. I can never get away from it. In class, at a restaurant, even at a movie, there is always someone cracking some part of their body. Hearing someone crack their body parts is like hearing nails on a chalkboard for me. That cracking sound makes me want to scream. Every time I see a person making a move to crack their body parts, I turn away as quick as I can. I also plug my ears, so I can’t hear that vial sound. I try to avoid the sight and sound of cracking body parts, but that is really hard to do. The government should make a law that says people can only crack their body parts in private, not in public. I don’t think they’re going to make a law like that anytime soon though. I know it may sound silly, but I have my reasons for hating the sound of cracking body parts.
All my reasons for hating the sound of cracking body parts are legitimate reasons. My first reason is that when I was little I thought if you cracked your knuckles or toes they would fall off. When I was little, I was seriously terrified of cracking my knuckles and my toes. All the other kids thought their knuckles would get fat if they cracked them, and I thought they would fall off. I don’t know why I thought that, but I did. I have never cracked my knuckles, thanks to my fear that they would fall off. Now whenever I see or hear someone crack their knuckles or toes I picture their fingers or toes falling off. I would say that’s a good reason for hating the sound and sight of people cracking their knuckles and toes. My ex boyfriend didn’t think it was a good reason in fact he thought it was funny. He would chase me around and try to crack my knuckles and toes. Notice how I said EX boyfriend, what a creep. That fact that I thought my toes and fingers would fall off if I cracked them, is not the only reason I hate when people crack their body parts.
Another reason I hate when people crack their body parts, is because when people crack their necks I think of those action movies. The action movies where the two guys are fighting and one guy snaps the other guy’s neck. Then, the guy dies instantly. Whenever I see someone crack their neck, I think they’re going to snap their head off. One of these days it’s going to happen, someone’s going to crack their neck and accidentally kill themselves. When that happens I’m going to laugh, and let everyone know that I predicted that happening. My final reason for hating when people crack their body parts is because when people crack their backs you can hear every vertebra in their spine crack. That crunching sound makes me shiver. When I hear all those vertebras cracking I picture the person’s spine breaking into tiny pieces. It’s a seriously disturbing image. Those are my reasons for hating the sight and sound of people cracking their body parts.
The one thing that I can’t stand, that makes me cringe, is when people crack their body parts. Cracking body parts is the most disgusting thing in the whole entire world. When I hear that sound of someone cracking their necks, backs, or knuckles I just want to scream. It’s like hearing nails on a chalkboard for me. I don’t know why anyone does, but they do. They should make a law saying that you can’t crack your body parts in public, and that you can only crack them in private. I know it’s a weird pet peeve, but I have some legitimate reasons. I truly hate when people crack their body parts, and I wish I never had to hear or see it again!

1 comment:

  1. I like all of the details you used in your paper. It helped me visualize someone doing this motion. The video also helped with that. To improve your paper I think you should switch body paragraphs one and two so it will go in chronological order. I also think that you repeated yourself a lot, especially in the introduction. To fix that I think you should switch up the words you use and find synonyms for words just so it doesn't sound like you are repeating yourself.

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