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I'd never been to anything like that before, but it looked like it was worth checking out. HIGHWAY 1 13OTH ANNUAL COUNTRY FAIR 1 FOR FAMILY FUN! FOOD! CONTESTS! PRIZES! The fair was a few hours away, so that meant me being cramped in the backseat again, which was starting to get old. Thankfully, after an hour, Mom offered to switch places with me. When I got up to the front seat, I couldn't believe how much ROOM there was.

我以前从来没有去过这样的地方，但看起来值得一看。 第13届年度乡村集市，阖家欢乐！食物!竞赛!奖品!离集市还有几个小时的路程，所以这意味着我又要被挤在后座上了，这已经开始变老了。 谢天谢地，一个小时后，妈妈主动提出和我交换位置。 当我坐到前座时，我简直不敢相信有这么大的空间。

And it wasn't just all the space that was awesome. I even had individual temperature settings and my own cup holder. I went to change the radio station, but Dad stopped me. He said only the DRIVER gets to pick the music. I didn't think that was fair, but I wasn't gonna complain and risk getting sent to the backseat. MY TRUCK IS BUSTED BUT MY DOG HE LOVES ME.

令人惊叹的不仅仅是所有的空间。 我甚至有单独的温度设置和我自己的杯架。 我去换电台，但爸爸阻止了我。 他说只有司机才能选音乐。 我觉得这不公平，但我不会抱怨，也不会冒着被丢到后座的风险。 我的卡车坏了，但我的狗他爱我。

Dad's music was pretty awful, but the view totally made up for it. When you're in the back, you don't have any sense of what's ahead. Sitting up front, I had a whole new perspective and could almost see why Mom was so gung ho about taking this road trip. When we took the exit for the country fair, we came to a stoplight. We were behind a minivan that was the same exact model as ours, only purple. The kids in the van looked kind of familiar. It took me a second to realize they were the same ones from last night.

爸爸的音乐很糟糕，但风景完全弥补了这一点。 当你在后面的时候，你不知道前面是什么。 坐在前面，我有了一个全新的视角，几乎可以理解为什么妈妈如此热衷于这次自驾游。 当我们驶往乡村集市的出口时，我们遇到了一个红绿灯。 我们跟在一辆和我们一模一样的小货车后面，只是紫色的。 车里的孩子看起来有点眼熟。 我过了一会儿才意识到这就是昨晚的照片。

I hadn't told Mom and Dad about the incident with the kids and the cleaning cart, because I was worried I wouldn't come out looking too great. And they definitely didn't need to know about my run-in with Mr. Beardo. The kids in the purple van recognized me right away, and started making obnoxious faces. I wasn't gonna just sit there and take it from those little punks, so I made a face at THEM.

我没有告诉爸爸妈妈关于孩子们和清洁车的事，因为我担心我出来后会显得不太好。 他们绝对不需要知道我和胡子先生的争吵。 紫色面包车里的孩子们马上认出了我，开始做鬼脸。 我可不想坐在那里听那些小混混的教训，所以我对他们做了个鬼脸。

The skinny one made the same face back at ME, and the second he did, the light turned green and they accelerated. When their van lurched forward, the little kid face-planted into the back window. SPLAT Dad passed them on the left, and Mr. Beardo got a real good look at me.

瘦骨嶙峋的那个也对我做了同样的表情，他一看，绿灯就变绿了，他们加速了。 当他们的货车向前倾斜时，那个小孩的脸撞到了后窗上。 爸爸从左边经过他们，胡子先生把我看得很清楚。

Luckily, the parking lot for the fair was only a few hundred feet up the road. Once we stopped, I wanted to stay inside until I was sure we weren't being tailed by the purple van. But it looked like we were in the clear. Manny was still asleep in his car seat, so Mom said she'd stay back with him and the rest of us could go on ahead. The fair was a LOT different than I thought it was gonna be. I expected it to have a Ferris wheel and a merry-go-round and stuff like that, but instead there were a bunch of tents with farm animals and booths with homemade food.

幸运的是，集市的停车场离这条路只有几百英尺远。 一旦我们停下来，我就想待在里面，直到我确定我们没有被那辆紫色货车跟踪。 但看起来我们是清白的。 曼尼还在他的汽车座椅上睡着，所以妈妈说她会留下来陪他，我们其他人可以先走。 展会和我想象的大不相同。 我原以为那里会有摩天轮和旋转木马之类的东西，但却只有一堆放着农场动物的帐篷和放着自制食物的摊位。