Hey Garth.. you owe me $5

So tonight I was telling a friend about how a little girl I was baby sitting had to "call" Justin Bieber to tell him she was having a new baby brother.. and to say good night of course.... after we laughed about it he said he wonders if he ever did anything like this.. like try and call Hanson or something? This hit a raw nerve with me because to my dying day I will love me some Garth Brooks but he completely broke my heart when I was 9....and those of you who know me pretty well have already heard this story a million times but I am just hoping that Ellen or someone like that will get wind of it one day and help me find retribution. But  anywho.. one summer before I went to camp I wrote Garth Brooks a letter (how I found his address before the days of the internet is beyond me.. but I have always been resourceful)... but anywho.. I distinctly remember sitting on my floor next to my tape player listening to my Garth Brooks tape and writing him a letter that said how much I love him and how I was fixing to go to camp and not need the money I made selling "wrapping paper" (now this was no ordinary wrapping paper.. it was printer paper that I took the time to draw on and sell  to my family and neighbors to wrap presents with.. yeah impressive.. I know!) so I was sending him $5 so he could send me a signed picture. I  then humbly informed him  that I know its not much but I am only 9 years old so it would have to do. All summer I waited patiently for my signed picture of him.. my parents worked at the camp so I would call and ask my grandmother if I had gotten any mail at the house. Camp had passed that summer and it was right before school was about to start (I really honestly and truly cannot remember much from my childhood but I remember all of this) and I know this because I was secretly "testing" out my new school tennis shoes after I had been asked not to...got caught.. and had to spend some time in my room for this horrible infraction... but this punishment was totally eclipsed when the letter.. from Garth Brooks arrived. I opened it with more anticipation then anyone has probably ever had and there was NO picture. What I held in my hand was a letter from a lady thanking me  for being such a great fan and that Garth would love to write me himself but he is on tour at the time. I was in shock.. and there might have been a few tears shed but then I pictured this woman being his good friend and that she must know him so that is kind of cool but then I suddenly realized that wait a minute.. she STOLE my $5. Who steals money from a 9 year old that is trying to start her own wrapping paper business? Ludicrous.... I know! I obviously have never fully recovered from the disappointment that happened 16 years ago...but I know Garth is a kind and fair man and if he knew that someone in his camp took my hard earned money to probably later buy a hamburger or something  he would make things right.. what he doesn't know though..... is that I have been charing interest!