The bus came and I got on it with a smile.

    My mother used to say things which {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (make) me mad. Like most teenagers, I {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (think) I knew everything. And I didn't want to {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (tell) what I didn't know. For example, if I said I was going to see a movie, my mother {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (roll) her eyes. On my way out, she'd shout, "You need to slow yourself down before something bad happens! You don't want to learn that in the hard way!" I didn't know what that meant. I thought she just wanted me {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (stay) at home.

    Many years later I {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (have) three teenagers of my own. They thought they knew everything. I would say the same things to them like my mom. That's when I first saw it. My mother wasn't trying to make me stay at home. She {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (try) to help me.