showing children arguing.] The Caption Reads: "Girls are stinky poos!
Yeah!
I don't think girls are stinky poos!"
But of course now I don't get any credit for sticking with the girls all this time.
Like I said, Bryce is the most popular kid in our grade, so that leaves all the rest of us guys scrambling for the other spots.
The best I can figure is that I'm somewhere around 52nd or 53rd most popular this year. But the good news is that I'm about to move up one spot because Charlie Davies is above me, and he's getting his braces next week.
[Image: A cartoon showing a boy wearing braces.]
8
I try to explain all this popularity stuff to my friend Rowley (who is probably hovering right around the 150 mark, by the way), but I think it just goes in one ear and out the other with him.
[Image: A cartoon showing two boys talking.]
Wednesday
Today we had Phys Ed, so the first thing I did when I got outside was sneak off to the basketball court to see if the Cheese was still there. And sure enough, it was.
[Image: A cartoon showing a boy in a basketball court.]
9
That piece of Cheese has been sitting on the blacktop since last spring. I guess it must've dropped out of someone's sandwich or something. After a couple of days, the Cheese started getting all moldy and nasty. Nobody would play basketball on the court where the Cheese was, even though that was the only court that had a hoop with a net.
Then one day, this kid named Darren Walsh touched the Cheese with his finger, and that's what started this thing called the Cheese Touch. It's basically like the Cooties. If you get the Cheese Touch, you're stuck with it until you pass it on to someone else.
[Image: A cartoon showing four children screaming.]
The only way to protect yourself from the Cheese Touch is to cross your fingers.
10
But it's not that easy remembering to keep your fingers crossed every moment of the day. I ended up taping mine together so they'd stay crossed all the time. I got a D in handwriting, but it was totally worth it.
This one kid named Abe Hall got the Cheese Touch in April, and nobody would even come near him for the rest of the year. This summer Abe moved away to California and took the Cheese Touch with him.
I just hope someone doesn't start the Cheese Touch up again, because I don't need that kind of stress in my life anymore.
Thursday
I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.
My summer did not exactly get off to a great start, thanks to my older brother Rodrick.
11
A couple of days into summer vacation, Rodrick woke me up in the middle of the night. He told me I slept through the whole summer, but that luckily I woke up just in time for the first day of school.
[Image: A cartoon showing a boy in his bed.] The Caption Reads: "shoot"
You might think I was pretty dumb for falling for that one, but Rodrick was dressed up in his school clothes and he set my alarm clock ahead to make it look like it was the morning. Plus, he closed my curtains so I couldn't see that it was still dark out.
After Rodrick woke me up, I just got dressed and went downstairs to make myself some breakfast, like I do every morning on a school day.
12
But I guess I must have made a pretty big racket because the next thing I knew, Dad was downstairs, yelling at me for eating Cheerios at 3:00 in the morning.
[Image: A cartoon showing a boy yelling at another boy.]
It took me a minute to figure out what the heck was going on.
After I did, I told Dad that Rodrick had played a trick on me, and HE was the one that should be getting yelled at.
Dad walked down to the basement to chew Rodrick out, and I tagged along. I couldn't wait to see Rodrick get what was coming to him.
13
But Rodrick covered up his tracks pretty good. And to this day, I'm sure Dad thinks I've got a screw loose or something.
[Image: A cartoon showing a boy sleeping.]
Friday
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Yeah!
I don't think girls are stinky poos!"
But of course now I don't get any credit for sticking with the girls all this time.
Like I said, Bryce is the most popular kid in our grade, so that leaves all the rest of us guys scrambling for the other spots.
The best I can figure is that I'm somewhere around 52nd or 53rd most popular this year. But the good news is that I'm about to move up one spot because Charlie Davies is above me, and he's getting his braces next week.
[Image: A cartoon showing a boy wearing braces.]
8
I try to explain all this popularity stuff to my friend Rowley (who is probably hovering right around the 150 mark, by the way), but I think it just goes in one ear and out the other with him.
[Image: A cartoon showing two boys talking.]
Wednesday
Today we had Phys Ed, so the first thing I did when I got outside was sneak off to the basketball court to see if the Cheese was still there. And sure enough, it was.
[Image: A cartoon showing a boy in a basketball court.]
9
That piece of Cheese has been sitting on the blacktop since last spring. I guess it must've dropped out of someone's sandwich or something. After a couple of days, the Cheese started getting all moldy and nasty. Nobody would play basketball on the court where the Cheese was, even though that was the only court that had a hoop with a net.
Then one day, this kid named Darren Walsh touched the Cheese with his finger, and that's what started this thing called the Cheese Touch. It's basically like the Cooties. If you get the Cheese Touch, you're stuck with it until you pass it on to someone else.
[Image: A cartoon showing four children screaming.]
The only way to protect yourself from the Cheese Touch is to cross your fingers.
10
But it's not that easy remembering to keep your fingers crossed every moment of the day. I ended up taping mine together so they'd stay crossed all the time. I got a D in handwriting, but it was totally worth it.
This one kid named Abe Hall got the Cheese Touch in April, and nobody would even come near him for the rest of the year. This summer Abe moved away to California and took the Cheese Touch with him.
I just hope someone doesn't start the Cheese Touch up again, because I don't need that kind of stress in my life anymore.
Thursday
I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.
My summer did not exactly get off to a great start, thanks to my older brother Rodrick.
11
A couple of days into summer vacation, Rodrick woke me up in the middle of the night. He told me I slept through the whole summer, but that luckily I woke up just in time for the first day of school.
[Image: A cartoon showing a boy in his bed.] The Caption Reads: "shoot"
You might think I was pretty dumb for falling for that one, but Rodrick was dressed up in his school clothes and he set my alarm clock ahead to make it look like it was the morning. Plus, he closed my curtains so I couldn't see that it was still dark out.
After Rodrick woke me up, I just got dressed and went downstairs to make myself some breakfast, like I do every morning on a school day.
12
But I guess I must have made a pretty big racket because the next thing I knew, Dad was downstairs, yelling at me for eating Cheerios at 3:00 in the morning.
[Image: A cartoon showing a boy yelling at another boy.]
It took me a minute to figure out what the heck was going on.
After I did, I told Dad that Rodrick had played a trick on me, and HE was the one that should be getting yelled at.
Dad walked down to the basement to chew Rodrick out, and I tagged along. I couldn't wait to see Rodrick get what was coming to him.
13
But Rodrick covered up his tracks pretty good. And to this day, I'm sure Dad thinks I've got a screw loose or something.
[Image: A cartoon showing a boy sleeping.]
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