Hello and welcome. You are listening to LOLL Storytime, a

story time that may also appeal to your next door neighbor Sally. Today's story

story is called Pirates for Hire. This episode is ad-free, so if you're interested in supporting the podcast,

please consider leaving us a review as it will really help us out. With all that out of the way,

let's get into it. This is the story of Alex and his best friend

their diaper days and still going strong in the fourth grade.

Which is saying a lot given that Alex's parents were always trying to keep the two boys apart.

It wasn't so much that Corey was a bad kid or anything.

Whenever the two came together, it always resulted in what Alex's parents labeled as poor choices.

Some of these poor choices included the time in first grade when Corey convinced Alex to try a flying squirrel jump between two trees,

which worked out about as well as one might expect.

Truth be told, it was actually a near success.

If you ignore the broken leg wrist and collarbone.

Then in the second grade, Alex's parents received a phone call from the principal,

because Alex and Coreyrid arrived at school

dressed for what the boys had thought was a spirit day called underwear day. Oops. In their defense,

what kind of spirit day is underwater day anyway? There was also that time in third grade

Alex and Corey tried to teach themselves how to golf in Alex's backyard. They eventually clued in that this probably wasn't the best idea after the third busted window.

So yeah, you might think by the fourth grade Alex would have learned his lesson, taken his parents' advice, and moved on.

But what parents often fail to understand is you can't just ditch your best friend because they're a magnet for trouble.

Especially when your best friend owns the biggest swimming pool in the neighborhood.

So it was really no surprise that fourth grade didn't turn out to be any different, as was quickly discovered in the first month of the school year.

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