David Tennyson -- The Amazing Embarrassment

     One time when I thought people were looking at me was when I lived on 252 Main Street, Route 20, the busiest street in Northbourgh, where cars were always zooming by my house 24/7. The one good thing is that it had a perfect old biking track that I liked to use as a running track for exercise, and I like to run. One time when I was finishing a run, I was on my way home, when a very strange and scary thing happened. All of a sudden a cop pulled me over on the sidewalk at 3:00 p.m., causing traffic behind him.
     The cop asked me where I was going. I said, “Home.” And he asked me where and what I was doing and I told him, “I was jogging.” It took maybe five minutes for him to understand what I was doing. Then I deiced to walk home because I was too embarrassed. Before I looked I already knew that people were staring at me and when I looked they were. When I was embarrassed I turned my head the slightest bit just to see 13 people, including the cop who pulled me over, were all sitting in passenger seats staring at me in a scary and strange way.
     I looked and as I was or already through up. I thought, “what in the world so, what! A cop sees a kid wearing regular clothes. I mean, does he find it strange to find an 11 year old in shorts and a T-shirt and sneakers jogging on the sidewalk and starts to get suspicious? I mean he is a cop and is just trying to help but, in this case he should mind his own business, and the others who were looking at me were like, ‘Is that kid okay?’ Oh boy this will make one heck of a story.”