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Last summer when I was getting out of the town pool, my bathing suit fell down a little and everyone saw it happen. And before I even dried off, the pictures were posted all over the Internet. Carla Saw this at the town pool today! 24 likes Nancy This kid really "cracked" me up!

去年夏天，当我从镇上的游泳池出来时，我的泳衣掉了一点，每个人都看到了。 还没等我擦干衣服，照片就传遍了网络。 卡拉今天在镇泳池看到了这个！这个孩子真的把我“逗乐”了！

These days you can even get in trouble for taking a picture of YOURSELF. A few months ago we went to brunch after church, and when we left the restaurant, I felt like I might have spinach in my teeth. I wasn't anywhere near a mirror, so I borrowed Mon's cell phone to take a picture of myself, just to make sure. But some lady in front of me thought I was taking a photo of HER, and she wouldn't let us leave until she looked through the pictures on Mon's phone to make sure I HADN'T.

如今，你甚至会因为给自己拍照而惹上麻烦。 几个月前，我们做完礼拜后去吃早午餐，当我们离开餐厅时，我觉得我的牙齿里可能有菠菜。 我不在镜子附近，所以我借了莫妮卡的手机给自己拍了张照片，以防万一。 但我前面的一位女士以为我在拍她，她不让我们离开，直到她看了莫妮卡手机上的照片，以确定我没有拍。

Now that I think of it, that might've been what started Mom on this electronics-free idea to begin with. Speaking of which, Mom got all the signatures she needed to take her petition to Town Hall. The way she GOT them was by intercepting all the partygoers as they were leaving our house the other night. After Mom took the petition to Town Hall, the leaders had a vote and made it official. So this Saturday, the whole town is going to voluntarily unplug for the weekend.

现在我想起来了，这可能就是妈妈开始不使用电子产品的原因。 说到这个，妈妈得到了所有她需要的签名，把她的请愿书带到市政厅。 她得到他们的方法是，有一天晚上，当所有参加派对的人离开我们家时，她拦住了他们。 妈妈把请愿书拿到市政厅后，领导们进行了投票，并将其正式生效。 所以这个星期六，全镇的人都要自愿在周末不插电。

Mom's made it her mission to get the word out to as many people as possible. I'm trying to keep a low profile until this whole thing is over, but Mom hasn't been making it easy. I think cutting ourselves off from the outside world is a bad idea. If there's a zombie apocalypse or something big like that, we're gonna be the LAST ones to know.

妈妈把把这个消息告诉尽可能多的人作为自己的使命。 在整件事结束之前，我想保持低调，但妈妈一直让我很为难。 我认为与外界隔绝是个坏主意。 如果有僵尸末日之类的大灾难，我们会是最后一个知道的。

Friday. As part of this electronics-free weekend, everyone's supposed to come down to the town park tomorrow for a voluntary cleanup. But it's gonna take a lot more than one afternoon to make a dent in THAT mess. These days, the park looks like something out of a movie where there's been a nuclear war.

星期五。作为这个没有电子产品的周末的一部分，每个人明天都应该到镇公园进行自愿清理。 但要想解决这个问题，一个下午是远远不够的。 这些天，这个公园看起来就像发生了核战争的电影里的东西。

The park used to be NICE, but things went downhill when the town ran out of money. The main reason was because they voted to build a one-way "cell phone only" path through the park, since half the time people on the REGULAR path weren't watching where they were going. So all the money that was supposed to go to regular cleanup went to this new path for people who wanted to use their electronic devices while they walked.

这个公园过去很好，但当镇上的钱用光后，情况就急转直下了。 主要原因是因为他们投票决定在公园里修建一条单向的“手机专用”道路，因为普通道路上的人们有一半的时间都没有注意他们要去哪里。 因此，所有本应用于定期清理的钱都用于这条新道路，供那些想在走路时使用电子设备的人使用。