12 Ch12-Hooray Miss Lazar!

Chapter 12 Hooray for Miss Lazar! It was the most amazing sight in the his- tory of the world! Mr. Klutz was hanging off the side of the school. He could fall at any moment. And we would get to see it, live and in person. It was a real Kodak moment. You should have been there! One of the teachers ran to the office to

get Miss Lazar's home phone number. Mrs. Cooney called the number on her cell phone. "Tell her to hurry!" yelled down Mr. Klutz. "I can't hang on here forever!" It was about a million hundred hours until we heard the sound of Miss Lazar's scooter buzzing up the street. She screeched to a halt and hopped off. Everybody cheered. "This looks like a job for Super Custodian!" said Miss Lazar. "How did you get up there, Mr. Klutz?" "Never mind that," he yelled. "How am I going to get down?" Miss Lazar looked at the wall. She

looked at Mr. Klutz. Then she looked at me. "A.J.," she said, "remember the secret room I showed you in my office? I need you to run down there as fast as you can. Open the door and get my blue plunger. It has a hole in the wooden handle." "Why do you want a toilet plunger now?" I asked. "Go!" Miss Lazar said "Duty calls!" Miss Lazar said "duty" again. I ran as fast as I could to Miss Lazar's office. I grabbed the blue plunger from the wall in the secret room. When I ran back out to the playground with it, Miss Lazar had already climbed up to the roof

of the school. She had a rope in her hand. Mr. Klutz was still hanging off the wall, a few feet below her. "Throw me the plunger, A.J.!" Miss Lazar yelled. I threw the plunger up on the roof. being careful not to hit Mr. Klutz with it. Miss Lazar tied the rope to the plunger. "What's she doing?" somebody asked. "Who knows?" Michael said. Miss Lazar leaned over the edge of the

roof with the toilet bowl plunger in her hand. "Okay, Mr. Klutz," she said. "I need you to hold steady. I'm going to mash this plunger against the top of your head." "What?!" yelled Mr. Klutz. "After the plunger is stuck to your head," said Miss Lazar, "I'll be able to lower you down to the ground." "That's crazy," said Miss Daisy, "but it just might work!" Miss Lazar jammed the plunger against Mr. Klutz's shiny bald head until it stuck there. "Does it feel like it's on good and tight?" asked Miss Lazar.

"Yes!" said Mr. Klutz. "But this is very embarrassing." "Don't worry about that," said Miss Lazar. "Now I want you to let go of the wall with your hands and feet." "I'm scared!" said Mr. Klutz. "I've got you!" shouted Miss Lazar, Mr. Klutz let go of the wall. Miss Lazar held the rope tight. The plunger stuck to Mr. Klutz's head like glue. Slowly Miss Lazar began lowering Mr. Klutz down with the rope. "It's working!" somebody shouted. I'll say this much— you never know when one of those toilet bowl plunger thingies might come in handy.