Hi, this is the sixth installment of my blog for my English Composition I class. For this assignment, I had to read, watch and interpret four different texts, which I’ve listed, and have links to below. They are all to help with writing a blog which is counter factual to my last blog, Blog#5, Composing an Emotional Scene with Dialogue and Symbolism. Which I am also using for my Narrative Project.
In blog five I described an event in my life that to me and for me was an emotional time. From the decision to send in the application to be invited Hot Rod Magazines' Pump Gas Drags, to the emotional roller coaster of arguing with the plant manager and the head of H.R. where I used to work for the time off to go to Memphis to participate in the Pump Gas Drags. Arguing with work was the biggest road block I had, all of the other pieces pretty much fell into place. To explore the “what ifs” I would have to start with what if I never saw the advertisement or my friend hadn’t shown me the advertisement for the event. I would not have known the Pump Gas Drags were being held in ’08 so I wouldn’t of have had the thought planted in my head to go, and wouldn't have had a reason to go. If my Girlfriend would have said she didn’t want to go or couldn’t get the time off from her work, then I probably would have gone without her. She has stayed home for other things that I’ve have done with my car. I would have explained that I was going with or without her, she may or may not have been happy about it, but she would have understood that this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. If my Parents would have said they couldn’t or didn’t want to go, then I wouldn’t have gone. Mostly because my Mom has been going and supporting me, in everything like this that I've been involved in, from Baseball to Football to Drag Racing. For them (her) not to go would have stopped me from going. Not being able to get the time off from work wouldn’t have stopped me, I definitely would have found a way to go. Even to the extreme of quitting my job to go, which I had thought about. Where I worked there were rules about absenteeism that I could have worked around to get the time off without pay, but it would have taken some work on my part to get it done. To me there are only two possible alternate endings. One would be me going without my Girlfriend, but still going. Two would be not going at all because my Parents couldn’t go or just didn’t want to go. The only one that seams feasible to me is the one where my Girlfriend doesn’t go. My parents at that time were always up for a trip somewhere they hadn’t been before. In hind sight I don’t think quitting my job would have been a good plan. I think the emotions of the moment got to me and influenced my decision-making process.
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Sabatino
3/2/2020 02:00:45 pm
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Daniel Kamowski
3/3/2020 12:46:00 pm
I like this post because it gets too the point since you've already written the main piece. It really makes me want to take a deep dive into what exactly happened that made you think about these what-if's in the story. I wish there could have been a little more connection with the story to make it not seem so much like a reflection but in the spur of the moment type of writing, what were you thinking at that time, in the moment.
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