Teenagers! Teenagers! My girlfriend Cindy and I are both fourteen years old which means it is the first year we can go to The Thanksgiving Day Parade without our parents. They actually gave us permission to go without them. Cindy and I know how to travel the trains to Manhattan so we were all set to go.
The train took an hour, but we talked with each other so much during the ride, it seemed like we were at 34th Street in fifteen minutes. We were so excited, we practically flew up the subway stairs. When we reached the street, our eyes were filled with all the parade sights. The floats were the most fascinating part of the parade and there were so many of them. We saw marching bands, the baton twirlers, and all the spectators lined up against the sidewalks to catch a glimpse. The Thanksgiving Day Parade definitely did not disappoint.
Cindy and I were down in the dumps when the parade was over, and it was time to take the train back home. The train was packed with parade goers. My friend and I had to sit across from this vagrant, older man who had taken his shoe and sock off. Maybe his foot hurt a lot from standing at the parade. In the meantime, Cindy was holding some very long, wispy peacock feathers.
When she saw the old man’s bare foot, she bent over laughing hysterically causing the feathers to reach the old man’s foot. The old man didn’t think it was funny because the feathers were now tickling his foot. The old man started yelling at us. We got scared so we moved to another spot in the train. Once we were safe, we laughed and laughed so hard, our stomachs hurt.
Being at The Thanksgiving Day Parade was amazing but the man’s foot being tickled by the peacock feathers stands out as the most memorable and is still talked and laughed about to this day.
Ellen
