Under the Rug
March 20th, 2009 by 
tinakamo
Harris Burdick wrote, “Two weeks passed and it happened again” as the caption for this picture which he titled, “Under the Rug.” What’s the story? You tell us…
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36 Comments »
March 20th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
I think that there is a fat rat under the mat.
March 20th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
I think he is trying to kill some thing that he really dose not like… like Mrs. Nakamoto and the rats.
March 22nd, 2009 at 10:09 pm
It looks like the man is trying to smash the lamp with a chair.
March 25th, 2009 at 8:27 am
It looks like he is going to smash the lamp.I wonder what is under the rug.
March 26th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Maybe the man is trying to kill something that is under the rug like a rat or a mouse.I also wonder why the lamp is stacked up on the table.
March 29th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Auli’i and Naiya, I hope it’s not a rat or a mouse. You know how I feel about those!
Actually, right now, it looks like a huge blob of water that keeps growing. Maybe it looks like water to me because I’ve spent this whole week cleaning my kitchen and dining room because my washing machine overflowed and those two rooms were flooded. I never realized how much water is used in one load of laundry…
I hope each of you has had a better week! =) I miss you and can’t wait to see all of you on Wednesday!
March 31st, 2009 at 4:16 pm
If it is arat or a mouse or a rat it looks like a pretty big one.
April 1st, 2009 at 7:30 pm
I think it might be a BIG RAT! It looks like he is trying to whack a mouse our something.
April 1st, 2009 at 7:35 pm
I think he is trying to whack a HUGE RAT or MOUSE under the carpet.
April 2nd, 2009 at 3:16 pm
I think there must be something that keeps appearing under his
rug.
April 2nd, 2009 at 6:16 pm
I agree with you Nadia I do think that some thing ceps coming out of no wear.
My other though was that a BIG RAT/MOUSE is under the mat to Kaiya!
April 4th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
I think there is a big bug under the carpet.
April 5th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
i wonder if there is a ghost
under the rug.When i saw this
picture thought he was going to
SLAM! the lamp.He is a good
artist.
April 5th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
When i first herd about Harris
i got scared when his house got
tortured.
April 16th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Here’s an idea for the beginning of the story. Anyone want to continue it?
Two weeks passed and it happened again. No matter how hard he tried he couldn’t make the floor stop breathing so hard. It was affecting his day-to-day life. Every time he sat down to dinner he was afraid his food would go sliding down the table. He couldn’t wait any longer. He was going to have to call someone to take the lungs out of his floor…
April 21st, 2009 at 9:06 am
Can I add on?
And when the people came they could not take the lungs out of his floor…
April 21st, 2009 at 9:06 am
Two weeks passed again and it got 100 times worse. When he tryed calling the exterminator the floor beat him to it!!! Finally when he went to work he called the exterminator but he didn’t belive him. So he went home again and was afraid that his dinner would slide right of his table again just like last night.
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:10 pm
I’ll add on.
It was big rodent that came again. He kept on eating his food and he’s tierd of it.
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Me to.
So he set a trap to rid of the rat. And the next day he got the rat taken care of. But the lungs in his floor got even more worse! And evryone he told about his floor did not belive him.
April 27th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Then one day he invited his brother to dinner.His brother brought his children also.Every thing was all right until one of the kids lifted up the rug and saw nothing.He put the rug back and the lump started to grow!The man saw the lungs getting taller and taller.Then all of the rug started to rise.
April 27th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Could you tell me what the storys about ?
April 27th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
I’ll add
Then the lungs became a lung monster and stared to attack
him he tried to call the police
but the lung monster ate he ate
almost everything in the house
he was 10 times wores then the rodent.
April 30th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
I think I’ll add on!
It could be a small animal and he thought it was harmful animal when it was harmLESS animal! Oh and can someone PLLEEAAASSEE answer back to me!?
April 30th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Then the harmless animal was
a baby wolf and he like him so he kept him.
May 14th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
But as the wolf grew it turned into a monster.
He had to kill the wolf and was so mad at himself that he dicided to run away and never come back again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe harris burrdick changed his name to lucy an is still alive!!!
May 14th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
;9 :9 :9
May 14th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
I meant…
;(
🙁
🙁
May 14th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
So he ran and ran and ran and ran until he lost his breath!
;(
May 15th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Try guess what I’m trying to say!
_o r_ _s!
Brycen,
Then that would be the end of the
story!
🙁 🙁 🙁
May 15th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
No Cayli Rose I ment he coulden’t catch his breath so he
rested.
May 19th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Cayli,
why are you making all these spaces?! 😮
May 19th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
I’ll add
After he rested he met a farmer
he let him sleep in his barn.
May 29th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
I give up! What does _or_ _s mean!!!!????
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:54 pm
How does Cayli make those lines under the spaces!
June 6th, 2009 at 10:31 am
like this _ _ _ _
June 6th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
just hold down the shift key while you press the key next to the 0.(the one above O and P)