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So Mom helped Rodrick go through the Help Wanted section of the newspaper to find him a job that doesn't require any skills or experience. They finally found an ad for a restaurant that's about fifteen minutes from our house. WANTED! Seeking motivated individuals to join the team at the OLD-TIMEY ICE CREAM PARLOUR! Old-Timey Tobias I went to the Old-Timey Ice Cream Parlour for Rowley's last birthday party, and that experience may have PERMANENTLY ruined ice cream for me.

于是妈妈帮罗德里克浏览了报纸上的招聘栏，为他找了一份不需要任何技能或经验的工作。 他们终于找到了一个餐馆的广告，那家餐馆离我们家大约15分钟路程。 想要的!诚邀有志之士加入我们的团队！我去旧时冰淇淋店参加罗利的最后一次生日派对，那次经历可能永远地毁了我对冰淇淋的兴趣。

They have this one dessert on the menu called the "Feeding Trough," which is FORTY scoops of ice cream all in one long tray. And when you mix different flavors of ice cream together, it just turns into gray slop. The Old-Timey Ice Cream Parlour is one of those places where the whole staff comes to your table to sing for your birthday. That makes me really uncomfortable, because it's pretty obvious they'd rather be doing ANYTHING else. IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY AND WE'RE HERE TO SAY WE HOPE YOUR DAY IS DANDY IN AN OLD-FASHIONED WAY

菜单上有一种叫“食槽”的甜点，就是40勺冰淇淋放在一个长托盘里。 当你把不同口味的冰淇淋混合在一起时，它就变成了灰色的泔水。 old - time Ice Cream parlor是那种所有员工都来为你的生日唱歌的地方。 这让我很不舒服，因为很明显他们宁愿做其他事情。 今天是你的生日，我们来这里是想说，我们希望你的生日能像以前一样快乐

Rodrick had an interview at the restaurant earlier in the week, and believe it or not, he got the job. Saturday was his first night of work, and Mom thought it would be a good idea for the rest of us to surprise Rodrick and cheer him on. But when we got to the restaurant, we couldn't find him anywhere. Mom was pretty worried, but eventually we found him out back. TOSS Mom wasn't happy that Rodrick was on trash duty, and she gave the manager a piece of her mind.

本周早些时候，罗德里克在这家餐厅参加了面试，信不信由你，他得到了这份工作。 星期六是他上班的第一个晚上，妈妈觉得我们应该给罗德里克一个惊喜，为他加油。 但当我们到了餐厅，却找不到他。 妈妈很担心，但最终我们在后院找到了他。 扔垃圾的妈妈对罗德里克负责垃圾很不高兴，她把经理臭骂了一顿。

But the manager said Rodrick was an "entry level" employee and that everyone who works at the restaurant has to pay their dues. I'm pretty sure Rodrick was hoping we'd all just go home and leave him alone after that, but Mom wanted to stick around. And when Rodrick went on his fifteen-minute break, we hung out with him in the employee lounge. Rodrick spent the rest of the night taking the trash from the kitchen out to the Dumpster, and I guess Mom wanted to see him one more time before we left. So she told our waiter it was Manny's birthday, and the waiter called the whole staff to our table.

但经理表示，罗德里克是“入门级”员工，在餐厅工作的每个人都必须缴纳会费。 我很确定罗德里克希望我们都回家，让他一个人待着，但妈妈想留下来。 当罗德里克休息15分钟时，我们和他一起在员工休息室闲逛。 罗德里克一整晚都在把厨房里的垃圾倒到垃圾箱里，我猜妈妈想在我们离开之前再见他一面。 所以她告诉服务员今天是曼尼的生日，服务员把所有员工都叫到我们这桌。

But I wish Mom didn't go and do that, because there's something about the smell of garbage juice that really ruins your appetite. ...AND IF YOU'RE FEELIN' HUNGRY YOURE AT THE PERFECT PLACE NOW JUST BLOW OUT THAT CANDLE SO YOU CAN STUFF YER FACE! Monday. Lately, Mom's been trying to get Grandpa to tell us kids about what life was like when HE was growing up. Grandpa says that when he was young they didn't have televisions or anything like that, so kids spent most of their time outdoors playing games like Kick the Can.

但我希望妈妈没有去做，因为垃圾果汁的味道真的会破坏你的食欲。 …如果你饿了，现在正是时候，把蜡烛吹灭，你就可以大吃一顿了！星期一。 最近，妈妈一直想让爷爷给我们讲讲他长大后的生活。 爷爷说，在他小的时候，家里没有电视之类的东西，所以孩子们大部分时间都在户外玩踢罐子之类的游戏。

Grown-ups are ALWAYS talking about playing Kick the Can. One time me and Rowley actually gave it a try to see what the big deal was, but we quit after about thirty seconds. WANNA GO INSIDE AND PLAY TWISTED WIZARD? YEAH. Dad says when he was a kid, he and his best friend, Giles, would just use their imaginations and play all day in the woods.

大人们总是在谈论踢罐子。 有一次我和罗利试着看看有什么大不了的，但我们在30秒后就退出了。 想进去玩扭曲巫师吗？ 是的。爸爸说，当他还是个孩子的时候，他和他最好的朋友贾尔斯会发挥他们的想象力，在树林里玩一整天。