Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Book re-review: You Can Count!

Readers, I am a generally awesome and infallible person. But sometimes even I make mistakes.

Three months ago (four? six? How long ago was March?) I gave the book You Can Count, a book in which Barney and his friends walk around aimlessly and there are also numbers, a mere 2.5 out of 5 stars.

I need to go back to earlier tonight for this next part to make sense.

So earlier tonight I was innocently brushing my teeth, when suddenly I came under attack! By a vicious wild cockroach! Which admittedly didn't actually touch me, and was actually moving pretty slowly, but it clearly had evil intent.

So of course I reacted with my usual bravery and said (OK, squealed), "Snan, there's a cockroach!! Augghhhh, it's coming for me! KILL IT!" (Oh yeah, did I mention that my stistar Snan is here? Because she is.)

So then Snan was like, "So step on it," and I was like, "I can't step on it! They're so fast! And crunchy," and then she was like, "hahahaha," and I was like, "crap crap crap it's still coming!" and then I super fast RAN OUT AND ESCAPED and then GRABBED THE POISON and started spraying, at which point Snan started laughing harder, and then I was like, "Why is it not dying????" and she was like, "Try spraying it from inside the same room," so I did, because I'm just that daring, but then she was like, "That's still not close enough, get closer," and I did, and she was still like, "Closer, it's not going to jump on you from that distance," but I'm not so easy to fool and I knew that once she'd said it couldn't jump that far it would totally jump that far right away just to prove her wrong.

So then I said, "I don't need to spray it anymore, I sprayed it like four times," and then Snan got bored of laughing at me and picked up our copy of You Can Count and just squished it.

And then she told me to clean it up so that Mom won't find it tomorrow morning and get all grossed out, but I thought it would be better to just leave a note saying "WARNING: DEAD COCKROACH UNDER THIS BOOK."

Eventually we agreed to trade cockroach removal for a back rub.

Anyway, my point is, You Can Count totally deserved at least five out of five stars. I don't know why I didn't see it before. VERY valuable book.

1 comment:

  1. Wait! Was it really a cockroach, or was it a rambunctious screaming little girl, and your mind only pretended that she was a cockroach?

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