The Coloring Contest

When I was eight or nine, a local pet store had a Halloween coloring contest.  When my sister was little she won two coloring contests in a row.  I decided I too should try my hand at the arts , so I picked up the paper and left.  You would think I would never give it it a second thought, but that wasn’t the case.  I made copy after copy of it. I colored page after page.  I spent days trying to make the flawless masterpiece. I finally turned in my great work.  We found there were only four entries.  I, feeling so very happy, left. I waited. There was no call.  We went to the store later and saw the other three pictures hanging up.  I got beaten by three little kids!  Their pictures were horrible!Their pictures didn’t even look spooky!  They were all sunny and happy colors! It looked like they had spent about 2.5 seconds while I had spent WEEKS agonzining over my work of art! I walked away dejected and crushed without my prized five-dollar gift card.