Come Sale Away

As the Loud family were winding down from competing to see who could execute the best butt shake,

Rita smiled a little at her children then looked around the empty living room. The family just had a yard sale and the kids became very competitive as to how much they could sell, so they removed almost every item of furniture from the house and sold them. Luckily, Luna was unable to push the refrigerator on the lawn because it was too heavy.

She decided it would be best if the kids helped her and Lynn Sr. retrieve their furniture.

"Kids," she called out. Everyone stopped dancing and caught their breath.

"I've decided to cancel your grounding for a while until we retrieve every item you sold."

They all cheered, then Lincoln realized something.

"There's one problem, when we thought Lily's blanket was sold by accident, we rushed all over the neighborhood asking people if they bought it," he explained.

"We all ended up going to Flip's at different times and he pieces of purple cloth we thought was her blanket and asked him to sell them to us," Lori added.

Lynn Sr sighed in exasperation. "Why didn't you just come home and tell us about it?"

"Did you all remember to write down the names and addresses and the money each customer spent like we told you," Rita asked.

"Yes mom," Leni replied.

"Lisa take each list and add all the money then write the total on a separate piece of paper," Rita told the little genius. After Lisa did as instructed she returned from her bedroom with the total

"Now we'll go to Flips and show him the total and demand he return your money," Lynn Sr. said.

"What happened?" Lynn Sr. shouted as the family looked upon the shattered windows that were caused by an explosion five minutes ago when Flip was creating a windshield wiper fluid using chemicals he bought from Lisa at the yard sale.

"Rita, Lori come with me, everyone else stay in the car," Lynn Sr. ordered.

As they walked through the door, Flip was coming from his office. "What can I do for you?" Flip called out.

"Did you swindle our kids out of the cash they earned from our garage sale?" Rita asked with her arms folded in a resolute manner.

"Don't lie to us, we saw you at the sale," Lori said angrily.

"Okay they asked if some pieces of purple cloth I had was their sisters blanket and I tricked them into buying them," Flip admitted.

"Could you give us our money back," Lori pleaded, "Mom had our sister's blanket the whole time."

"No way, I'll need it to repair my business," the dishonest man protested.

Lynn Sr. folded his arms.

"NO you're not, you're returning our kids money or else we're calling the police and have you arrested for swindling kids," he declared.

"All right come with me into my office," Flip said.

"Just to make sure you return all the money, we wrote down the amount we gave you," Lori said handing him the total on a separate piece of paper Lisa wrote on.

Flip opened a drawer of his desk and removed a yellow folder which contained their money.

Flip handed Lynn Sr. the folder. When Lynn Sr. emptied the money on the desk, he counted the money and found it was all there.

"All the money is present and accounted for, "he said.

While the family walked back to the van, Rita said, "Next we have to go to everyone who bought our stuff, return their money and retrieve our things."

"Let's start with Lori's list," Rita said. They were able to find everyone on each list and explained why they had to return the items they bought. Some were grateful to get their money back since the item they bought didn't work properly.

I hope you've all learned a lesson kids. Too much competitiveness is a bad thing," Lynn Sr. told the children as they entered the house after taking everything out of Vanzilla when they returned home.

"Are you still going to ground us?" Luna asked worried.

"Yes but only for five days and you will put back everything in its place after school," Rita told them.