Welcome to Makeup Stories. My name is Emery, Up Club to join the podcast. Tell your friends.

Hey, Jesse. Hey. Hey. How are you doing? Good. Tonight's Makeup is a story that I made up for you.

Do you remember a couple weeks ago you had kind of a rough week about remembering to bring stuff to school?

Yeah.

You made a comment to me during that week that you wish you had a backpack that would just pack itself so that then you wouldn't have those problems.

Yeah.

That would be pretty cool, wouldn't it? That's what I want them to invent, like, even when I'm a grown-up. Yeah.

I don't care what it is. Yeah. I'm a grown-up now, and sometimes I think it would be really

helpful to have a backpack that would pack itself. All right, shall we start this story?

Yeah.

Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a big boy named Jesse who loved school,

but was always forgetting to bring the things that he needed.

On Monday, he would forget his reading folder. Then on Tuesday, he would forget his

library book. On Wednesday, he would forget his soccer cleats and shin guards. On Thursday,

he would forget his water bottle, or if he remembered his water bottle, he would forget his hat.

On Friday, he would forget his lunch.

The next week, he would forget all the same things, but in a different order.

No matter how hard he tried, and he tried very hard, it seemed that Jesse was always forgetting something.

Ugh, he exclaimed in frustration, why can't I just have one day where I remember everything?

One particular day, Jesse was really looking forward to sharing a special treasure he had found for show and tell.

That weekend, he had visited a car dumpyard with his mom and had found so many cool things,

including a display from an old broken down car that used to show the car's mileage,

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