I Got Stuck On A Roof

hello my geeks and peeps my explainers and entertainers my little uh lollies Rebecca param here even when I was young I never understood the type of kid who did stupid dangerous things for fun or attention my grandfather who was a rocket scientist for the Air Force used to say that a mark of intelligence was understanding cause and effect if I jump off of this very high rock into very shallow water there is a high probability that I will break something important and possibly do permanent damage to my frail human body hmm maybe the admiration of my peers isn't worth risking my entire future as a just kidding wait I wasn't one of those kids not even close I was the terrified one in the corner who had to muster up courage just to ask for the Hall Pass so it's a jolly good wonder how I ended up in this precarious predicament that I'm about to describe to you let's rewind the clock shall we a middle school Becca you're up the year was sixth grade still doing the preparatory school thing and still very much a loner geek obsessed with Pokemon video games and cartoons but around this time I did manage to make one friend for a short while she was in the grade above me which I thought made me so cool at this school you didn't make friends outside your grade you stuck to your own kind so the fact that an older girl wanted to be friends not only made me feel special but it made me feel like I was getting away with something we'll call her kay and looking back it's pretty clear to me why we got along so well while I personally thought she was one of the cool kids she was clearly the loner weirdo geek in her own class proof that perspective is everything maybe one day Albie is coolest her she also liked Pokemon and video games and was really good at Super Smash Brothers the original she's also the one who taught me the infamous item duplication glitch in pokemon red and blue so yeah the geek was strong with this one one day Kay invited me over to her house for a sleepover now you have to remember at this point my life my family lived out in the country so most of the kids at school did too and Kay's house was on a very big piece of property many many acres and far away from any neighbors levels of seclusion that made you wonder what the hell the parents were up to anyways she and I were having a lovely old sleepover and I wasn't going to be picked up until the afternoon of the next so we had lots of time to kill after a very full night of trading Pokemon and playing all 12 characters in smash we were enjoying breakfast when her parents came in they told us they were going to the farthest stretches of their property to work on a new house they were building right new house gotcha I'm ignoring the shovels and suspicious tarp one second after Kay's parents closed the door behind them she turned to me and gave me one of those looks that said I'm about to drag you into something you're gonna regret you want to go out on the roof go what do we're now Kay's house was two stories but the second story was a lot smaller than the first and via a window on the second floor one could easily slip out and parkour to their little hearts content all over the first story roof Kay took us up to the second story open the window that would lead to the roof and said don't worry I've done this lots of times and nothing bad ever happened well she did appear to be alive so I guess there was a good chance she didn't ever die from going out on the roof and I was not about to turn the yellow bellied in front of my cool older friend so I followed her outside onto the roof and just as we both made it out she said see it's all fine just as long as we don't close the window I really hope you went to the bathroom before this turns out the window locked automatically whenever it was closed and no amount of us trying was getting it to budge now modern innovation would make this a non problem because everybody and their grandmother has cell phones that might as well be implanted into our hands but back then you didn't get a cell phone until you were like a teenager if you were lucky and whatever phone you did get was just that a phone not a mini computer with access to a literal world of distractions and activities so even if I did have a phone back then chances are I wouldn't be carrying it on me anyways so that meant we were stuck on a roof with no one else around I vote you jump if your legs aren't broken go back in the house and open the window neither of us were going to jump first off it would have been stupid secondly her house was on a hillside with lots of jagged rocks so if you jumped you weren't just going to fall 12 feet you were going to hit and then tumble down a steep rocky hill so you know might get a boo-boo there were trees around us but none of them were close enough for us to climb down and if my childhood bully friend Jocko taught me anything it's that twigs have a weight bearing limit our next option scream case parents were working on a house over a mile away so all we to middle school girls had to do was create the same level of decibels as a rock concert in order to just barely be heard at that distance oh yeah surprise surprise ten minutes of screaming didn't do anything it just made us a little hoarse so we couldn't jump we couldn't climb and we couldn't call for help what is a girl to do well my beautiful mind came up with a real humdinger I started grabbing leaves off the adjacent branches and spelling out SOS on the roof yes I really did that I don't know who I was trying to flag down helicopter kite a passing buzzard hey hey we're about to be dead soon so you might as well stick around oh come on now it could totally be worse no no no no no I will not be resorting to this Hollywood cliche of a joke it was actually a nice day but thank goodness it didn't happen in the middle of Texas summer we definitely would have looked like SpongeBob and Patrick in shell city by the end of it we were stuck up there for two hours but thankfully her parents weren't away that long must have been quite a sight to come home to hello mr. and mrs. Kay's parents I see you've made short work of that suspicious Park if you get us down I promise not to testify against you in court why does she always bring home the weird ones one ladder later and Kay and I were safely back on the ground her parents were surprisingly chill about the whole thing didn't even threaten to tell my parents it looked like I was gonna get away with my dumb decision scot-free case parents didn't even bother to see me off when my dad came to come pick me up everything was coming up Becca but just as I was walking out to greet my dad and remember don't tell him anything don't tell me what dear daughter of mine the jig was up I had to tell him and of course he was not happy got a big old lecture on the way home because you know I guess my parents cared about my safety and stuff shortly after Kay switched schools though I think we all know what that meant oh poor went out for the poor murdered soul of Kay she got to be a ghost story before me may her roof climbing high jinks live on in infamy why did I always make friends with the weird ones [Music]

Channel: Let Me Explain Studios

Views: 13,359,034

Rating: 4.9330435 out of 5

Keywords: stuck, roof, animated, animation, cartoon, rebecca parham, let me explain studios, animator, storytime, middle school, school

Id: R5gEQdwOYq4

Length: 7min 44sec (464 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 31 2019