Oh, the injustice

Today when we arrived at swimming, Avery and her friend Maya presented Courtney and me with sealed envelopes. Apparently the girls were feeling a bit abused and chose to write persuasive essays to convince Courtney and me that they are, in fact, subjects of a horrible injustice. Maya's essay is here, and I'll copy Avery's below:

Getting Fun Drinks While We Swim-- Persuasive Essay

This essay was written partly because I want to please you guys with an essay, but also partly because it is difficult for me and Maya to watch our brothers slurping down star bucks or cherry slushes in our faces, while we ache and feel WORN OUT from our last swimming practices.

Even though we very much appreciate you letting us do swimming and our past drinks, we wish this could either stop or this would only happen about four times a month; once a week, I think, is fair.

I think that it is great there is that half-price hour and a perfect opportunity for you to get a drink, we don't like it when every time we arrive to a red-mouthed “hello!” and a “sorry, we don't have any drink left... but you can maybe get one next time!” from our brothers and a vague “hi guys... in a minute we'll go.” “Did you get us a drink? Are our brothers fooling us?”
“No, sorry. We went early...” hmmm. We really don't like that- and please don't laugh at us, or beat us up!!! We don't like working hard and being “POWWWW”ed by our mothers. Really, does anyone like that?

This essay is short because I am forgetful. This part you can laugh at. I resisted and forgot to do the essay until the last moment. But I still have several more points to make before I... XXXX go do schoolwork. Point one: If everything is half price, I bet it is about 1.50, so could you please spare a dollar for us? We'd only equal about two dollars total- [“I mean, I like to think I'm worth more than a dollar...” Direct Quote from Maya Landers-- Woodland School Times]. Point two: I think you have been generous in letting us do expensive swim team and sometimes getting us drinks, but we could even have just a quarter of our brother's drinks. We don't need one of our own. Our brothers can slurp down three quarters and still have one quarter to spare for us, and then that would be it, you wouldn't have anything involved. Thus, I think you can spare something. My third and last point to remind you from earlier on in this essay is that you can perhaps just go once a week. Even though sometimes you already do this, and that's great, maybe a bit more often.

Now you guys are allowed to spank us red, pinch us 'till we cry, chase us, or bust yourself laughing. We're not trying to sound bossy, like a parent, or mean, we just want to make a fair point*. *Notice I didn't say “for once”. I do think you let us often have a larger point than most children do, and I VERY MUCH APPRECIATE IT. SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for listening,
Your Daughter,
Avery, and her friend, Maya.
Our Appreciation.