I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry! The boy yelled as the vets came to assess the calf. “ I swear I didn’t mean to,” he cried. I didn’t mean to kill her, he thought. When his parents asked him what happened all he said was “I was mad and wanted somewhere to sulk, so I tried to climb up the old rotten shed, I was so furious that I didn’t even consider the calf down inside the shed” he said. And to think I had started the day off so well by having my favourite cereal for breaky, he thought.
The family were very poor, and the only kid, a 6 year old boy, didn’t appreciate not being able to get anything he wanted. One day he found a sweet shop and was determined to get at least 5c worth of chocolate, but he was denied the money by his parents. He was so angry. He stormed out of the shop, ran 25kms back to his house to rade the families biscuit jar, which consisted of 1 and a half chocolate biscuits, then bolted out to an old rotten shed.
The boy tried to climb up the old historic shed, little did he know the newly born calf, which the boys mum had helped calf earlier that day, was inside the shed sleeping. When the boy tried to climb the shed it creaked and swayed from side to side. The swaying and creaking of the shed didn’t bother the boy, but it did bother the calf. The calf had only been able to walk for a few hours, but the calf wanted to get out. He attempted to jump over the locked gate, trying again and again to clear the steel bars.
“We can’t do anything about it kid, I’m sorry” the vet had said, after looking at the calves deformed leg.
“It’s all my fault” the boy moaned. Before running back over to the shed where he saw his parents angrily walking over.