Not helping

             It was a boring Saturday afternoon in October when I was aimlessly wondering around my house wondering what I could do. As I was making my eighth round around the kitchen and tired of hearing my younger and more dull sibling say "move I am trying to watch this movie and I can't pause it!!" Now this baffled me for two reasons. The first one is that it was on a DVD and she could of paused it, and the second one was that she was not watching the movie she was actually listening to music while surfing the internet. This, as I already said, baffled me and I decided that I needed to go out side and just walk around a little bit to understand what actually just happened. As I was walking down my street the situation that just occurred reminded me of a joke from a comic named Lewis Black. The joke is "the American medical profession does not know why we get an aneurysm. An aneurysm is when a blood vessel bursts in your head for no apparent reason. There's a reason. You go to the mall one day with your friends. Somebody over there says the dumbest thing you've ever heard. And it goes...in your ear." I thought of this because that was the dumbest thing I have ever heard come out of the mouth of my sibling.
             My walk ended me up at the end of my street where there lived a couple that had lost their son do to a medical circumstance. As I walked back to my house I kept looking over my shoulder to see what exactly they were doing. I came to the conclusion that they were re-siding the back part of their house, but were not accomplishing much to do the fact that they were no longer young, their youth had left them, they were, as some insensitive young people would say, as old as dirt. When I returned home my mother, who was wondering were I went, was also
             watching the elderly couple and suggested that I go over and help. I did not respond my instead walked up to my room and turn on the computer. The welcom...

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