Hello and welcome. You were listening to LOLL Story Time, the Goofy Story Podcast for Kids.

Today's story is called Don't Press That Button. The idea for this one came from a recent discovery I made.

At some point, I must have pressed on a button or clicked on something that somehow put ads at the start of some of our earlier episodes.

After the ads play, I then come on saying, today's episode is ad free.

Yeah, a little embarrassing.

But you guys were nice about it, so thanks for that, and apologies to anyone who noticed.

Anyway, let's get into our story.

This is the story of Miles Dempsey, a kid who carried a notebook with him everywhere he went.

Miles didn't use his notebook for the purpose of a diary.

There were no entries like, Dear Diary, today I ate a burrito, and it was very burrito-y.

Which wouldn't have been out of character for Miles

because that dude loved burritos. But instead he used his notebook to write down all of the things

he wanted to remember. Remembering things always felt like such a struggle for Miles. He knew that

if he didn't write stuff down, there was a good chance he wouldn't remember any of the new things

he just learned.

For example, when his teacher taught his class at a due long division, Miles wrote down all of the steps his teacher showed them.

Miles, you don't need to write that down. Just practice it and soon you'll remember it just fine.

Sir, I just did 789 practice questions and I still don't remember. Huh, well,

that's a lot of questions. Then how about I let you in on a little secret? Outside of teaching,

I never do long division. Really? But sir, how do you survive being a grown-up in a world without doing long

division? Kid, somehow us grown-ups manage just fine. Calculator, right? Yep. It seemed to Miles

like everyone else's memory worked just fine, while his was on a permanent vacation,

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