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See, this is the kind of thing I can't stand about boys my age. When it comes down to it, they're just a bunch of wild animals. When George started chasing people around, I excused myself to go to the bathroom so I could brush my teeth. The bathroom is in the back of the auditorium, and the lights were off, so it was really dark back there. I heard this weird noise, and I got a little freaked out for a second, because our school has a problem with rodents. But it turned out to just be Fregley playing by himself in the ball pit.

我最不能忍受的就是我这个年纪的男孩。 归根结底，他们只是一群野生动物。 当乔治开始到处追人的时候，我借口去洗手间刷牙。 洗手间在礼堂的后面，灯是关着的，所以后面真的很黑。 我听到了奇怪的声音，我当时有点害怕，因为我们学校有啮齿动物的问题。 但结果只是弗雷格利一个人在球坑里玩。

Around midnight Mr. Palmero, the school guidance counselor, told everyone to get into their sleeping bags and settle down. Then he said there was no talking for the rest of the night and he didn't want to hear a peep out of anyone. Every once in a while, somebody would cut the cheese, and that made Mr. Palmero really mad because he couldn't figure out who was doing it. After what happened earlier with the pictures, I think the grown-ups were just really sensitive about anything having to do with butts.

午夜时分，学校的指导顾问帕尔梅洛让所有人钻进睡袋，安静下来。 然后他说，晚上剩下的时间里不许说话，他不想听到任何人的声音。 每隔一段时间，就会有人切奶酪，这让帕默罗先生非常生气，因为他不知道是谁在切奶酪。 在之前的那些照片之后，我觉得大人们对任何和屁股有关的事情都很敏感。

Mr. Palmero said that if anyone needed to "pass gas," they had to go behind the curtain on the stage to do it. So then a lot of the boys started taking turns telling Mr. Palmero they needed to go behind the curtain, and then they'd make the most obnoxious noises you can imagine.

帕默罗说，如果有人需要“放屁”，他们必须走到舞台的幕布后面去做。 于是很多男孩开始轮流告诉帕默罗先生他们需要到帘子后面去，然后他们会发出你能想象到的最讨厌的声音。

That went on for a while, and it kind of reached its peak when David Rosenburg went down to the music room and brought back a tuba. I don't know if it was a coincidence or not, but right about that time the heat went off in the auditorium. In fact, I think someone turned the air conditioner on. All I know is that everyone stayed in their sleeping bags after that.

这种情况持续了一段时间，当大卫·罗森伯格（David Rosenburg）下楼到音乐室带回来一把大号时，这种情况达到了顶峰。 我不知道这是不是巧合，但就在那个时候，礼堂里的气氛开始紧张起来。 事实上，我想有人把空调打开了。 我只知道在那之后每个人都待在睡袋里。

After a while Mr. Palmero fell asleep, but all the boys were still awake. Some guys were saying this was like prison, and people were talking about busting out of there and going home. The problem was that all the exits were padlocked. I guess we should've known what we were getting into when they called this thing a "Lock-In." Albert Sandy said he'd seen a movie where some guy busted out of prison with a spoon, and a lot of people got pretty excited about that idea.

过了一会儿，帕默罗先生睡着了，但所有的男孩都还醒着。 有些人说这里就像监狱，人们说要从那里逃出去回家。 问题是所有的出口都被锁上了。 我想我们应该在他们管这叫“禁闭”的时候就知道会发生什么 阿尔伯特·桑迪说他看过一部电影，里面有个家伙拿着勺子从监狱里逃了出来，很多人对这个想法都很兴奋。

But it turns out that was just a bunch of Hollywood baloney, because we got some spoons from the kitchen and we couldn't even make a DENT in the linoleum floor. At about 1:30 in the morning, someone noticed flashing lights coming from outside, so we all went to the back of the auditorium to see what was going on. There was a guy from the tow truck company, and he was walking around Mr. Palmero's car, which was parked in a handicapped spot.

但事实证明那只是一堆好莱坞的胡言乱语，因为我们从厨房里拿了一些勺子我们甚至不能在油毡地板上留下一个凹陷。 大约在凌晨一点半，有人注意到外面有闪光灯，所以我们都去了礼堂的后面看看发生了什么事。 有一个拖车公司的人在帕默罗先生的车周围走着，那辆车停在残疾人专用车位上。