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Waiting for My Ship to Come
Percy was beginning to feel anxiety, frustration, and anger all meshed up into one emotion.
He had been standing there in that same spot on the side walk for over and hour waiting for his ship to come in. What was on his ship?
He had no idea
But everywhere he went people kept telling him "You can wait for your ship to come in-," and he left feeling more awkward than ever. Finally, when he was tired of this stroke of bad luck from Nike, he decided to wait around for his ship to come.
And he stood for at first five minutes, then he tapped his foot for ten, and finally paced at fifteen. His pacing became more and more out of control and Percy almost ran smack into someone.
"Oh, sorry... Hey, Malcolm!"
"Hey, Percy," the son of Athena greeted. His gray eyes looked over Percy in confusion. "What are you doing?"
"Oh, everyone keeps telling me that if I wait my ship will come in, so I'm waiting!" Percy sai excitedly. "But I've been waiting for an hour and I still haven't seen it yet."
"Percy," Malcolm hesitated as if trying to find the best words to put his response in, "two thing."
"Uh-huh?" Percy asked.
"First, you didn't hear the end of the quote. The real quote is 'You can wait around for your ship to come in but it doesn't happen.'" He cleared his throat, "Second of all there is one key things about ships and where they arrive that doesn't fit here."
"Oh," Percy was crestfallen. "What am I missing?"
"Well, ships don't pull into bus stops."
Oh, Seaweed brain...