Mr. Louie Is Screwy! (5 page)
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Authors: Dan Gutman
Happily Ever After
As soon as the wedding was over, I took off my dumb tie and ran to the water fountain. I really needed to get hyphenated.
Mr. Klutz was handing out bags of rice, and he told us to throw the rice when Mr. Macky and Miss Daisy came out of the church. Cool!
“Rice fight!” I yelled.
Me, Michael, Ryan, and Neil ran around throwing rice at everybody. I nailed Andrea in the face. I threw some rice at that Mr. Cooney guy, too. Serves him right for marrying Mrs. Cooney.
It was cool. You should have been there! We kept throwing rice until Mr. Louie told us to knock it off.
Mr. Macky and Miss Daisy got into a car. There were a bunch of cans tied to the bumper with string. What's up with that? People who tie cans to their car are weird.
Finally, Mr. Macky and Miss Daisy drove away. We all waved good-bye as the cans rattled down the street.
I guess we won't see Miss Daisy or Mr. Macky for a while. Maybe Mr. Klutz will forget to hire a new teacher and we can just have fun all day. Or maybe we'll get a teacher who's even dumber than Miss Daisy.
Maybe Mr. Macky and Miss Daisy will
get divorced and everything will be back to normal. Maybe Mrs. Cooney will divorce her husband and marry me instead. Maybe Mr. Louie will realize that the Sixties are over. Maybe Mr. Klutz will grow some real hair so he won't have to wear a silly wig. Maybe an elephant will fall on Andrea's head and nobody will find out that I love her.
Maybe I'll figure out how to levitate stuff. That would be cool.
But it won't be easy!
DAN GUTMAN
has written many weird books for kids. He lives in New Jersey (a very weird place) with his weird wife and two weird children. You can visit him on his weird website at
www.dangutman.com
JIM PAILLOT
lives in Arizona (another weird place) with his weird wife and two weird children. Isn't that weird? You can visit him on his weird website at
www.jimpaillot.com
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MY WEIRD SCHOOL #20: MR. LOUIE IS SCREWY!
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This is called a footnote because when you see it, you're supposed to look down. To see your foot, you have to look down, too.
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What are you looking down here for? The story's up there, dumbhead!
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Made you look down! Ha-ha! Man, you'll fall for anything!
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It went like this:
“The ants are my friends, blowin' in the wind.”
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There hasn't been a footnote in a long time, has there?
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