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Dad wasn't too happy that I turned somebody's driveway into an ice-skating rink yesterday, and he said he was disappointed in me for using "poor judgment." That's the exact same phrase he used a few weeks ago when I scratched up his car. It all started when I won Student of the Week at school. When you win Student of the Week, they give you a bumper sticker that you can put on your family's car. The bumper sticker is pretty corny, but it was still cool to win it. My child is the STUDENT OF THE WEEK and I'm MIGHTY PROUD! I'm not sure why I won, but I think they just give it to everyone eventually. Fregley won Student of the Week this past Friday, and I'm guessing it was for not biting anyone for five days straight.

昨天我把别人家的车道变成了溜冰场，爸爸很不高兴，他说他对我“判断力差”感到失望。 几周前我刮坏他的车时他也是这么说的。 这一切都始于我在学校赢得了本周最佳学生。 当你赢得本周学生奖时，他们会给你一张保险杠贴纸，你可以把它贴在家里的车上。 汽车保险杠上的贴纸很老土，但赢得它还是很酷的。 我的孩子是本周最佳学生，我非常自豪！我不知道为什么我赢了，但我想他们最终会把它给每个人。 弗雷格利上个星期五赢得了本周最佳学生，我猜是因为他连续五天不咬人。

Mom wanted to put my sticker on her car, but her bumper is so overcrowded that I knew it would just get lost on there. So I asked Dad if I could put it on his car. Dad recently bought a new car, and I thought my Student of the Week sticker would look really sharp on his bumper. But Dad said he didn't want to "junk up" his new car. At first I was disappointed, but I guess I could kind of understand where he was coming from. My family doesn't have anything that's really nice, and when

妈妈想把我的贴纸贴在她的车上，但她的保险杠上太挤了，我知道我的贴纸贴在那里会弄丢的。 所以我问爸爸我能不能把它放在他的车上。 爸爸最近买了一辆新车，我想我的“本周学生”贴纸贴在他的保险杠上会很显眼。 但是爸爸说他不想把他的新车“报废”。 一开始我很失望，但我想我能理解他的想法。 我家没有什么好东西，当

Dad came home from the dealership with a sporty car, I was pretty surprised. Mom wasn't happy that Dad picked out a car without talking it through with her, though. She said the car looked "flashy" and that since it only had two doors, it wasn't "practical" for a family of five. But Dad said it was the car he wanted, and he kept it. After I talked to Dad, I didn't know what to do with my bumper sticker, so I just ended up giving it to Manny and telling him he could put it on his wagon or something.

爸爸从车行开着一辆跑车回家，我很惊讶。 不过，妈妈不高兴爸爸没和她商量就选了一辆车。 她说这辆车看起来很“浮华”，而且因为它只有两扇门，所以对于一个五口之家来说并不“实用”。 但爸爸说那是他想要的车，他留下了。 我和爸爸谈过之后，我不知道该怎么处理我的保险杠贴纸，所以我就把它给了曼尼，告诉他可以把它挂在他的马车上。

But Manny turned right around and put it smack in the middle of Dad's driver's-side door. I freaked out because I knew Dad was gonna think I was the one who put it there. I tried to peel it off, but they must use superglue on the backs of those things. So I got some soap and water and tried to SCRUB it off.

但曼尼转过身把它正好放在爸爸驾驶座车门中间。 我吓坏了，因为我知道爸爸会认为是我放的。 我试着把它剥下来，但他们肯定用强力胶粘在那些东西的背面。 所以我拿了肥皂和水，想把它擦掉。

But after twenty minutes of scrubbing, I'd barely made a dent. I started looking for different cleaning supplies in the cabinet under the kitchen sink, and I found some steel wool pads that looked like they might do the trick. Those things work pretty good on the pots and pans, so I figured they were worth a try on the car since it was metal, too. Sure enough, the steel wool made the bumper sticker come off the car as easy as pie.

但经过20分钟的擦洗，我几乎没有留下任何痕迹。 我开始在厨房水槽下面的橱柜里寻找不同的清洁用品，我发现了一些钢棉垫，看起来可能有用。 这些东西在锅碗瓢盆上很好用，所以我觉得它们在车上也值得一试，因为它也是金属的。 果不其然，钢丝绒使保险杠贴纸轻而易举地从汽车上脱落下来。

In fact, it was so easy that I kind of got carried away. I used the steel wool pads to scrape off the bugs and bird poop, too. I figured Dad would be pretty happy I was cleaning his car for free. But when I rinsed the car off with the hose, I got a huge surprise. The steel wool didn't just scrape the bumper sticker and bugs off the car. It scraped the PAINT off, too. I panicked and started filling in the bare spots with a permanent marker. But the area where the bumper sticker had been was too big, so I wrote a note in Mom's handwriting and taped it over that spot.

事实上，这太容易了，我有点忘乎所以了。 我还用钢棉垫刮掉了虫子和鸟屎。 我想爸爸会很高兴我免费帮他洗车。 但当我用软管冲洗汽车时，我得到了一个巨大的惊喜。 钢丝棉不仅刮掉了汽车保险杠贴纸和虫子。 它把油漆也刮掉了。 我惊慌失措，开始用记号笔把空白的地方填上。 但是保险杠贴的地方太大了，所以我用妈妈的笔迹写了一张纸条，贴在了那个地方。