6 Ch6-The Haunted Toilet Bowl

Chapter 6 The Haunted Toilet Bowl I don't know exactly how it happened. I guess some kid in my class told some kid in another class that the toilet in the boys' bathroom was haunted. That kid told some other kid, and that kid told some other kid. By two o'clock, every- body in school was talking about the

ghost in the toilet bowl. None of the boys wanted to go in the boys' room. I wouldn't want to go into a boys' room if there was a ghost in the toilet bowl. Would you? Usually Miss Daisy lets us go to the boys' room after lunch. But none of us wanted to go in there. I figured I'd wait until I got home. All the boys in school were holding it in all day. We thought we were gonna explode! "Boys, will you please go to the boys' room?" Miss Daisy said. "No!" all of us boys replied. "There's a ghost in the toilet!" "Then use the girls' room," she said.

"No way!" I said. "The girls' room has cooties." None of the boys in the school wanted to go to the boys' room. It must have been another bath- room emergency, because Mr. Klutz called all the boys in the whole school into the gym to talk to us. "I promise you, the boys' bathroom is not haunted," Mr. Klutz announced, "I have been in there. There is no

ghost in the toilet. It is perfectly safe to use the bathroom." "I don't believe you," some fifth grader yelled. "Me neither," said somebody else. "I bet Miss Lazar would know if the bathroom is haunted," Ryan said. "She knows everything." "Yeah!" Michael agreed. Everybody started chanting, "Miss Lazar! Miss Lazar! Miss Lazar!" It was cool. Mr. Klutz called Miss Lazar on his walkie-talkie, and we all cheered when she rode into the gym on her scooter. She had her toilet bowl plunger with her, as usual.

"This looks like a job for Super Custodian!" said Miss Lazar. "Is the boys' room haunted, Miss Lazar?" asked Mr. Klutz. "Of course not," said Miss Lazar. "So you killed the ghost that was in the toilet bowl?" some first grader asked. "There was no ghost in the toilet bowl," Miss Lazar said. "Miss Lazar is just being modest," said Ryan. "Hooray for Miss Lazar!" somebody yelled, "She killed the ghost!" "SHE KILLED THE GHOST!" everybody started chanting. "SHE KILLED THE GHOST!"

"Now we can use the boys' room again!" I yelled. "Hip hip hooray for Miss Lazar?" every- body shouted. I thought Mr. Klutz would be happy, but he looked like he was all mad about something. One of the fourth graders raised his hand and Mr. Klutz called on him.