[ WP ] When everyone turns 18 , they receive a pet which is figurative of their personality . You 're the first person to receive a dragon ...

`` A dragon?'' I thought to myself as I stared out my living room window. 
 
 I had a hard enough time believing in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy as a kid, but there it was, a real, fire breathing, sharp-toothed, scaly, mythical, almighty, Tolkein-esque beast right there in my driveway. I remember my older brother was delivered an octopus complete with it's own tank on his eighteenth birthday and we thought that was pushing the boundaries of what kids received. Here I was with my own dragon. What was I supposed to do? Just climb up on it's back and take to the skies? Do n't get me wrong, it's not that I was n't grateful. I mean, c'mon, it's a friggin' dragon! However, I had a hard enough time `` fitting in'' in life and now I was gon na be the boy with the dragon. I did n't know the first thing about raising them. Would he live in the garage? `` Yeah... yeah that'll work,'' I mumbled under my breath, still lost in thought as the magnificent beast flared it's nostrils at the passing mailman. 
 
 I was in way over my head with this thing. 
 
 But then again, as I thought more about it, I realized a dragon would n't really know what to do in this world; it would have a hard time adapting to a setting vastly different from the one it was accustomed to. He would definitely have some hardship finding it's rightful place. He would have trouble `` fitting in.'' 
 
 It was then that I knew we were perfect for one another... I just had to find out how I would get him in the garage. 
 

