![]() By the time spring came, he had saved $200, and he purchased the Wonder-Sweeper 5000 metal detector. Then he shoveled driveways all winter, and he did not spend his money on candy and chips like his classmates. ![]() He saved it all in a shoe box in his closet. So he mowed lawns all summer and did not spend his money on ice-cream like his younger brother, Alex. He took a few lessons, but strumming the strings hurt his fingers and he did not like holding the pick, so now the five-hundred dollar guitar lives under his bed.Īfter reading an ad in the back of one of his comic books, Jacob decided that he wanted a Wonder-Sweeper 5000 metal detector, so that he could find buried pirate treasure. He begged his mother for months for a guitar so that he could play Black Eyed Peas songs to Angie, a girl he liked, but after he finally got one for Christmas, he found out that guitars do not play themselves. As a result, he had gotten into a million hobbies and activities, but he never stuck with any of them long enough to get any good. Jacob hated finishing things almost as much as he loved starting them. ![]()
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