Cream Soda

Just a funny little anecdote that shows just how some days go when you live at the Olsons' house...I think. This would be an anecdote right?


Last night, my brothers K2(11) and Kiergun(8) went to piano lessons. I will never know why but every time my grandma takes my brothers to piano lessons, she always buys them soda on the way back. Last night, I was doing my chores when they came in. It was the night when I had to clean the front of the fridge. I saw them come in, waving glass bottles in the air like trophies.
"Look what we got! Look what we got!" Kiergun shouted. It was Sprecher's Cream Soda. It's a kind of soda that comes in glass bottles that are impossible to open.
Kiergun immediately sat down to open it while K2 headed downstairs, to play a game of darts with Careg(9). They used to be banned from that but then my mom and dad got plastic dart tips and a corks board for the wall.
"Wanna come and play, Kiergun?" K2 asked,"I bet I'll beat you!"
"Can't." Said Kiergun. He was too bust trying to open that stupid bottle. So K2 left and I went back to cleaning the fridge while Kiergun wrestled with the stupid bottle cap. It took him six minutes before my mom came over saying that she'd open it. The botle opened and Kiergun finally had a chance to drink his soda. But obviously that wasn't enough.
"Give me the thing." he asked.
"What thing?" Mom asked. I didn't see her because I was still cleaning the fridge, but from the way she sounded, I guessed that she was giving Kiergun a quizical look.
"The thing you put on the bottle of stuff." Mom gave up on trying to get a better description and grabbed a clean wine stopper from the shelf.
"This?" she asked.
"No but give me that, too." Kiergun popped the wine stopper on the cream soda.
"That!" he said pointing at the spout on top of the Captain Morgan Mom was pulling off the shelf.
"You can't use that, Kiergun. It's dirty. You..." at that moment three things happened. There was a pop as I saw Kiergun pulled the stopper out of the bottle in the reflection off the fridge. There was a loud, gurgling hiss. My mom screamed like something out of a horror movie. I spun around to see soda foam spilling out of the bottle and on to the counter. My mom was freaking out and Kiergun just sat and stared for a few moments. Then he started sobbing and wailing while my mom rushed the foaming soda to the sink. Once the bottle was in the sink, my mom started mopping up the soda.
By the time she was done, I'd gone back to the fridge to start cleaning the freezer and Kiergun still hadn't stopped crying.
My mom asked him what was wrong, but he was sobbing so much he couldn't answer.
"Was it because the soda exploded?" my mom asked. Kiergun shook his head.
"Are you scared your not going to get your soda back?" Kiergun shook his head.
"Then why are you crying?" Kiergun just wailed and ran out of the room.
"Maybe you scared him." my dad sugggested from the T.V. room.
"Why would I scare him?" my mom asked.
"Well you can be pretty scary when you want to." I said. I was thinking of the time I went to a root beer stand with my friends without asking her. We were about to leave the parking lot when my mom drove up in a huge truck with a look that would have scared a grizzly bear, and scared all my friends away.
"Oh really?" said my mom. She called to my dad.
"Guess what your daughter just said!" When my dad heard, he broke out laughing.My mom started laughing too.
"Guess I'd better tell Terrisa her 'scary look's' got nothing on mine."