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Speaker 1: an awesome adventure. Are you guys ready for today's story?

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Speaker 1: Me too, Let's go. It was a beautiful day and

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Speaker 1: Harlan and his friends were playing outside. They were running

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Speaker 1: around the neighborhood, playing a massive game of hide and

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Speaker 1: seek across a whole bunch of different backyards and front

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Speaker 1: yards and all the different houses on their street. This

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Speaker 1: was pretty odd. Have you ever played such an epic

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Speaker 1: game of iide and seek before? Those are some pretty

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Speaker 1: amazing games where you could take a pretty long time

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Speaker 1: to find everyone because there's so many different hiding spots. Well,

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Speaker 1: Harlan was the one that was finding everyone, and he

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Speaker 1: was very good at it. I see you over there, Camden,

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Speaker 1: he shouted. Camden was hiding behind some bushes. Elsie and

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Speaker 1: Kiva were the last ones to be hiding, and Harlan

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Speaker 1: was searching everywhere. All right, where have I not looked?

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Speaker 1: Harlan had checked what he thought was every hiding spot,

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Speaker 1: but the last place that he'd ever expect was up

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Speaker 1: a tree. There was this old, gnarly tree that was

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Speaker 1: growing at the end of the street, and it had

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Speaker 1: all these really old big branches that people love to

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Speaker 1: go climbing on. But finally Harlan and decided to check

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Speaker 1: that tree. There you are, Elsie, Keiva, I see you

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Speaker 1: up there. Holy smokes, that was a good spot. Oh Man,

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Speaker 1: shouted a Kiva. They both climbed down and Harlan had

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Speaker 1: finally found everyone on the street. Harlan, come on home, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm coming. That was one of his parents shouting for

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Speaker 1: Harlan to come back home because they were gonna go

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Speaker 1: run out and do some errands. And little did Harlan

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Speaker 1: know how crazy this errand run would be. Do you

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Speaker 1: like going out with your parents to do some errands? Yeay,

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Speaker 1: errands are It's a word for like maybe going grocery

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Speaker 1: shopping or running to the store and picking up something,

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Speaker 1: or you know, you just never know what your parents

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Speaker 1: errand list might have. As Harlan jumped into the car,

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Speaker 1: off they drove. All right, Harlan. The first thing that

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Speaker 1: the car wash, said Harlan. Have you ever been in

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Speaker 1: a car wash before? They are pretty fun when all

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Speaker 1: the hoses and the water and the bubbles are spraying,

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Speaker 1: and it can be a little noisy, but it's it's

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Speaker 1: almost like a roller coaster ride. As the car pulled

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Speaker 1: into the car wash station, they drove inside and there

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Speaker 1: the water began spraying. All kinds of crazy noises were

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Speaker 1: all around the car. Harlan loved watching everything spraying, and

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Speaker 1: it was like being inside of a robot machine, watching

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Speaker 1: everything automatically do its different jobs. But then something terrible happened.

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, the car turned off, and as

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Speaker 1: Harlan's parents tried to turn the car back on, it

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Speaker 1: wouldn't start. Oh no, Harlan, I think we ran out

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Speaker 1: of gas. What are we gonna do. We're stuck inside

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Speaker 1: this car wash. How are we gonna get more gas?

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Speaker 1: Shouted Harlan. Holy smokes, what would you do if you

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Speaker 1: were stuck inside of a car that was inside of

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Speaker 1: a car wash and he ran out of gas? Do

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Speaker 1: you have any ideas? The only idea that I can

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Speaker 1: think of is that you'd have to get out of

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Speaker 1: but you'd get sprayed with everything. Oh, that is a

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Speaker 1: serious problem. As their car was now just sitting in

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Speaker 1: this soap and water everywhere, Harlan knew what they had

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Speaker 1: over there. Harlan, what are you talking about? Will get

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Speaker 1: completely soaked and full of soap, said his dad. I know,

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Speaker 1: I'm going with you, said his dad. Harlan and his

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Speaker 1: held their breath. They felt like they were jumping into

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Speaker 1: And just like that, they quickly opened a door and

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Speaker 1: soap completely soaked Harlan and his dad. You should have

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Speaker 1: seen them as they came running out of the car wash.

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Speaker 1: They looked like pink soap monsters. From head to toe.

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Speaker 1: They were filled and covered with this puffy, pink soap.

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Speaker 1: As they stood there in shock of what just happened,

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Speaker 1: staring at each other, they instantly started to laugh. Look

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Speaker 1: at you, Harlan, said his dad. I feel like a giant, pink,

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Speaker 1: fluffy monster, said Harlan as he wiped the soap off

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Speaker 1: of his face with his two hands. He finally was

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Speaker 1: didn't know exactly what to do. The two of them

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Speaker 1: and people started screaming, Ah, HiT's a monster. Everyone at

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Speaker 1: the gas station was absolutely terrified, and I would be

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Speaker 1: and said, no, we're people. We're not monsters, everybody, We're

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Speaker 1: just covered in soap. We got stuck in the car wash.

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Speaker 1: All the people screaming instantly turned to laughing, and they

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Speaker 1: grabbed some paper towels and some rags to help Harlan

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Speaker 1: and his dad wipe themselves off. Oh, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Harlan grabbed a towel and started wiping the soap off

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Speaker 1: of his body. His dad filled up a container with

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Speaker 1: gas that they would bring over to their car. All right, Harlan,

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Speaker 1: let's get back to the car wash and maybe rense

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Speaker 1: ourselves off a little bit. As they got back to

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Speaker 1: push the car out the rest of the way without

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Speaker 1: it having to turn on. Because you don't want to

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Speaker 1: fill up a car with gas. In the midst a

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Speaker 1: tornado of soap and water sprang everywhere. You don't want

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Speaker 1: that to get in your car's gas tank. As they

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Speaker 1: pushed the car out of the car wash, ah it

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Speaker 1: was like going through a big shower. It rinsed off

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Speaker 1: all that pink soap off of both of them. Their

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Speaker 1: mom was laughing hysterically from inside of the car. She

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Speaker 1: How are you soap monsters doing, she shouted, Ah, very

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Speaker 1: very not funny, said his dad. That was awesome, said Harlan.

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Speaker 1: Let's do it again. No, nope, nope, nope, nope nope. Well,

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Speaker 1: what are we gonna do about all these errands that

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Speaker 1: errands right now, said his mom. We definitely need to

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Speaker 1: not how they expected their day of errands would go. Right. Well,

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Speaker 1: know what to do. We know how to survive being

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Speaker 1: stuck in a car wash, and that may be the

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Speaker 1: end of the adventure. But that was a very helpful

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Speaker 1: you great job. You listened all the way to the end,

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