âbuttâ!
The next thing we knew, both presidents started fighting! George Washington put Abraham Lincoln in a headlock! Then Abraham Lincoln picked George Washington up over his head and started spinning him around! Soon the two of them were fighting on the floor.
It was cool. You should have been there. All the kids started cheering and yelling. It was just like watching professional wrestling on a big-screen TV.
âBreak it up!â shouted Mr. Klutz as he separated the two presidents. âCalm down, both of you! You should be ashamed of yourselves. Go to my office.â
Wow! Kids get sent to the principalâs office all the time, but that was the first time I ever saw a grown-up get sent there.
Finally everybody calmed down. It was time to vote for the president of Ella Mentry School. Miss Daisy and the other teachers passed out pieces of paper and pencils. We were told to write WASHINGTON or LINCOLN on our paper.
âWhoever gets the most votes will be the president of Ella Mentry School,â announced Mr. Klutz. âThe majority rules. Thatâs what democracy and fair elections are all about.â
Hmm. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were both pretty cool guys.I couldnât make up my mind which one to vote for.
Thatâs when I got the greatest idea in the history of the world! I decided I wasnât going to vote for either of those guys. I took my piece of paper and wrote this:
I VOTE FOR MR. WIGGLES.
I passed my paper over to Neil the nude kid. Neil giggled and passed my paper over to Ryan. Ryan giggled, and he passed my paper over to Michael. They passed my paper all the way down the row so our whole class saw it. I donât know what happened to it after that, but there was a lot of giggling in the all-purpose room.
âIf everybody is finished voting,â said Mr. Klutz, âplease pass your papers to your teachers so they can tally up the votes.â
We passed our papers to Miss Daisy, and she counted the votes for our class. Mrs. Patty, the school secretary, came out of the office with a calculator. Each teacher told Mrs. Patty how her class voted, and Mrs. Patty added up the votes. It took about a million hundred minutes. Finally she handed a piece of paper to Mr. Klutz.
âAnd the president of Ella Mentry School is⦠Mr. Wiggles ?â
All the kids started yelling andscreaming and cheering. Neil the nude kidâs pet ferret was the new president of Ella Mentry School!
âHooray for Mr. Wiggles!â we all shouted. âHip hip hooray!â
9
Happy Presidentsâ Day
Monday is usually the worst day of the week, because it means we have five days of school in a row. But not this week. It was Presidentsâ Day. No school on a Monday! Hooray!
Now, youâre not going to believe this in a million hundred years, but do youknow what I did on Presidentsâ Day?
Of course you donât, because I didnât tell you yet. And Iâm not going to tell you.
Okay, okay, Iâll tell you. I spent the whole morning working on my Presidentsâ Day oral report!
See, I told you that you wouldnât believe it. But itâs true! I did homework on a day we didnât even have school! I must have been out of my mind.
Iâll tell you why I did it. Itâs because I hate Andrea Young. I am sick and tired of her bragging about how smart she is and how she knows everything and how her oral report was going to be the best in the class. Iâm just as gifted and talented as she is. So I decided I was going to make a better oral report than Andrea. I was going to make the best oral report in the history of the world. My oral report was going to blow the doors off Andreaâs oral report. So nah-nah-nah boo-boo on her!
I worked really hard. I looked in my library and got books about my president.I looked in the encyclopedia for my president. I went on the Internet and got lots of fun facts about my president. My oral