My Bop It Experience

 MY BOP IT EXPERIENCE

Today was a pretty exciting day. Okay, maybe not super exciting, but I realized something very important.

I was doing math. More accurately, I was supposed to be doing math. I was lying on my bed looking at the posters of national parks on my wall, when my eyes landed on the greatest of all of God’s creations. Bop It.

Glancing back at my math I thought to myself I’m more than halfway done. I can take a break to play a couple rounds of Bop It.

So I walked across my room, grabbed the toy, went back to my bed and started playing.

My first round did not go as well as I would have hoped. I barely made it to thirty points.

The second time, however, went better. I bopped, twisted, and pulled like I was an olympic Bop Itter. I was feeling really good when, all of the sudden, the game stopped. “You reached one hundred,” it said. “Bop It if you would like to go to expert mode.”

A hundred! I thought. That’s my new record! So I bopped the button and continued playing. For all of you who have made it to expert mode, you know why it’s so much tougher than novice mode. In novice mode. The game clearly says what to do. It says bop it, twist it, pull it, or even shout it. But on expert mode it only makes the sound that is made when you obey the command. For example, instead of saying ‘pull it,’ it makes a whooping sound, and sometimes it switches randomly from saying the commands to just making the sounds. It’s a lot tougher than novice mode.

I made it past novice mode and ended up getting thirty four points in Expert mode before twisting instead of pulling. I didn’t care though. I’d gotten my record. I then finished my math, did my history and science, did Spanish, and all of my school with extra gusto. Then I got to play a half hour or so of video games, in which I absolutely destroyed The Saints, The Giants, and The Browns in Retro Bowl. I then went to swim practice where I didn’t do as bad as I thought I would, and then ran two miles. It was a pretty good day. But do you know where it all started? Bop It. The better I do at that, the more I get done and the better I am at everything else. So if you want to win at life, you first have to win at Bop It.