one night, when jared was very little, he had a terrible dream - in fact, it was a nightmare
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One night, when Jared was very little, he had a terrible dream - in fact, it was
a nightmare.
In his dream, In his dream, the teeny-the teeny-tiny buttons tiny buttons on his on his pajamas pajamas grew to an grew to an enormous enormous size and he size and he fell, head fell, head first, into first, into one of the one of the holes. holes.
When he When he awoke from awoke from his bad his bad dream, he dream, he decided that decided that he would he would never wear never wear buttons again. buttons again. From that day From that day on, he woreon, he wore
t-shirts. t-shirts.
One day, One day, when Jared when Jared was four, his was four, his mother mother announced announced at breakfast at breakfast that the that the whole family whole family was invited was invited to his to his cousin’s cousin’s wedding. wedding.
She said, She said, “Jared, you “Jared, you are so are so lucky. You lucky. You will get to will get to wear a wear a fancy, new fancy, new shirt with shirt with buttons.”buttons.”
Remembering Remembering his horrible his horrible dream, dream,
Jared Jared hollered,hollered,
““I HATE I HATE BUTTONS!!”BUTTONS!!”
Jared’s Jared’s mothermother
tried to tried to
convince him convince him
that buttons that buttons
were not were not scary.scary.
Jared still Jared still
screamed, screamed,
““I HATEI HATE
BUTTONS!!”BUTTONS!!”
As the As the
wedding wedding
came closer, came closer,
Jared’s mom Jared’s mom
decided to decided to
try some try some
dress shirts dress shirts
that didn’tthat didn’t
have buttons have buttons
On Monday,On Monday,
she brought she brought homehome
a dress shirt witha dress shirt with
a zipper. a zipper.
But when she But when she
zipped upzipped up
the zipper, the zipper,
she went too highshe went too high
and pinched and pinched Jared’s chin. Jared’s chin.
Jared cried, Jared cried,
““I HATE ZIPPERSI HATE ZIPPERS
On Tuesday, On Tuesday, Jared’s dad Jared’s dad brought homebrought home
a dress shirt a dress shirt
with velcro. with velcro.
But when Jared But when Jared undid the shirt, undid the shirt,
the noise wasthe noise was
too loud and too loud and Jared yelled, Jared yelled,
““I HATE VELCRO!!”I HATE VELCRO!!”
On Wednesday,On Wednesday,Jared’s nanaJared’s nanabrought him abrought him adress shirt thatdress shirt thatfastened withfastened withsafety pins. safety pins. When his nanaWhen his nanapinned his shirt,pinned his shirt,She accidentallyShe accidentallypoked him in the poked him in the
chest.chest.““OUCH!!” shoutedOUCH!!” shoutedJared, ‘I HATEJared, ‘I HATESAFETY PINS!!”SAFETY PINS!!”
On Thursday, On Thursday, Jared’s papa Jared’s papa
brought him a brought him a dress shirt dress shirt with strings with strings
attached. But attached. But when all the when all the strings were strings were tied up, Jared tied up, Jared
couldn’t couldn’t breathe. He breathe. He gasped, “I gasped, “I
HATE HATE STRINGS”. STRINGS”.
On FridayOn Friday
morning,morning,
the neighbour the neighbour
rushed overrushed over
with a dresswith a dress
shirt shirt
and did it up and did it up
with clotheswith clothes
pins.pins.
Unfortunately, Unfortunately,
Jared’s mom Jared’s mom thought he was thought he was
clean laundry clean laundry and she hung and she hung him on the him on the clothesline to clothesline to dry. The whole dry. The whole neighbourhood neighbourhood heard Jared heard Jared when he when he shrieked, “I shrieked, “I HATE CLOTHES HATE CLOTHES PINS!!” PINS!!”
So, on Friday So, on Friday
afternoon, afternoon, Jared’s sister, Jared’s sister, Taylor, decided Taylor, decided that she would that she would solve the solve the problem. She problem. She used her dad’s used her dad’s duct tape from duct tape from the workshop the workshop to fasten a to fasten a buttonless buttonless dress shirt.dress shirt.
Jared was fine Jared was fine with this idea, with this idea, until it was until it was time for bed time for bed and no one and no one could get the could get the duct tape off! duct tape off! Hours later, Hours later, when Jared’s when Jared’s father cut off father cut off the shirt, Jared the shirt, Jared hollered, at the hollered, at the top of his top of his lungs, “I HATE lungs, “I HATE DUCT TAPE!!”DUCT TAPE!!”
The dayThe day
of theof the
wedding wedding
was finallywas finally
here. here.
JaredJared
neededneeded
to get to get
dressed.dressed.
So, he So, he quietly quietly
snuck intosnuck into
his closet his closet
and pulled and pulled
out out
a dress a dress shirt. shirt.
To his family’s To his family’s surprise, surprise,
it was notit was not
the shirt the shirt
with zippers. with zippers.
It was not It was not
the shirt the shirt
with velcro. with velcro.
It was not It was not
the shirt the shirt
with safety with safety pins. pins.
It was not It was not the shirt with the shirt with
strings. strings. It was not It was not the shirt with the shirt with
clothes pins. clothes pins. It was not It was not the shirt withthe shirt with duct tape. duct tape. Jared was Jared was
wearing his wearing his dress shirt dress shirt with buttons. with buttons.
The whole The whole
dress shirt dress shirt
dilemma dilemma
made Jaredmade Jared
realize realize
thatthat
buttons buttons
were not were not
so bad so bad
after all.after all.
Jared lookedJared looked
very handsome very handsome
on the day of on the day of
the wedding the wedding
and if youand if you
got close got close enough, you enough, you could could
hear him say,hear him say,
“ “I love buttons.”I love buttons.”
THE ENDTHE END
The DRESS SHIRT DELEMAThe DRESS SHIRT DELEMAis about Jared Colangeli.is about Jared Colangeli.Jared is four years old andJared is four years old andrefuses to wear shirts withrefuses to wear shirts withbuttons. Jared’s mom had abuttons. Jared’s mom had areal problem when her familyreal problem when her familywas invited to a fancy was invited to a fancy
weddingweddingand Jared refused to wear aand Jared refused to wear adress shirt. His mom’s gradedress shirt. His mom’s grade2/3 at John Marshall School2/3 at John Marshall Schoolwrote and illustrated this wrote and illustrated this
storystoryabout Jared. The story wasabout Jared. The story waswritten BEFORE the wedding.written BEFORE the wedding.Although Jared LOVED theAlthough Jared LOVED thestory, he did NOT wear astory, he did NOT wear abuttoned shirt to the wedding.buttoned shirt to the wedding.He wore a “fancy t-shirt”. He wore a “fancy t-shirt”.
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