5. The Fun Begins

CHAPTER 5 THE FUN BEGINS An hour or so later, the buses returned to the school. All of the children got off, packed up their stuff, and got ready to go home. Mr. Fyde, the science teacher, was on school bus duty. The rest of the teachers gathered around George and Harold and began teasing them.

"You kids sure did miss a FUN field trip!" said Ms. Ribble. "The pizza was SO delicious! Too bad you didn't get any!" "I wanted to bring you back a pizza," said Mr. Meaner, "but I ate it on the bus!" He threw an empty pizza box at George and Harold's feet, and the teachers howled with laughter. "Maybe you can lick the cheese off the box," Mr. Krupp roared.

The teachers eventually got tired of taunting George and Harold, so they retreated to the teachers' lounge to relax. "Hey, how come it's so dark in here?" asked Mr. Meaner, as he flicked on the lights. The ceiling fan began rotating very slowly...

Ms. Ribble went to the sink and turned on the faucet. Suddenly, the spray nozzle sprayed cold water all over her. "AAAAUGH!" she screamed. "Somebody turn the water off!" The other teachers sprang up and tried to help. They all got sprayed, too. The ceiling fan was rotating faster now, and some of the powdered paste had begun flying off the fan blades. The teachers struggled with the faucet, pushing and shoving each other. Finally, somebody turned the water off... but not before everyone was thoroughly SOAKED!

The ceiling fan was now spinning at full speed. All of the powder on the fan blades had been flung off, and it was now floating down onto the wet teachers. "Hey, what the—" cried Mr. Meaner. "What's all this sticky stuff?!!?" yelled Miss Anthrope.

By now, all of the teachers were covered in gooey, sticky paste. It didn't take a genius to know that George and Harold were behind all this. "Those brats better not have touched my diet soda!" Ms. Ribble shouted. She dashed to the refrigerator and swung the door open.