4 Do You Have Any Flip-Flops

CHAPTER FOUR DO YOU HAVE ANY FLIP-FLOPS? SIMON, ROSIE, AND I either ride bikes or walk to school together. This was a walk day. So it was the perfect time to work on our plan. "Where were we?" Rosie asked. "We were trying to come up with a way to get me into Principal Shelton's office," I said. "That's step one. Step two is to get Shelton out of the office when I'm in there. And step three is to count the Skittles." "Okay, let's tackle step one," Rosie said. "We need to think about this logically. Why do students go

第四章你有人字拖吗？ 西蒙、罗茜和我不是骑自行车就是一起走路上学。 这是散步的一天。所以这是实施我们计划的最佳时机。 “我们说到哪儿了？”罗西问道。 “我们正想办法让我进谢尔顿校长的办公室，”我说。 “这是第一步。第二步，我在的时候把谢尔顿赶出办公室。 第三步是数彩虹糖。” “好吧，让我们开始第一步，”罗茜说。 “我们需要从逻辑上思考这个问题。 学生为什么要去

to the principal's office?" "It's usually when somebody gets in trouble," I answered. "That's it then," Simon said. "You just need to get into trouble." "I don't know how," I said as we passed the mailbox on the corner. "I've never been in trouble before. I get good grades, I don't skip class, I always help with decorations for the school play. What should I do?" Simon had lots of ideas. "You could let all the class pets loose," he said quickly. "There would be turtles and hamsters and

到校长办公室去？”“通常是有人遇到麻烦的时候，”我回答说。 “那就这样吧，”西蒙说。 “你只需要惹上麻烦。” “我不知道怎么做，”当我们经过街角的邮筒时，我说。 “我以前从来没有遇到过麻烦。 我成绩好，我不逃课，我总是帮助装饰学校的戏剧。 我该怎么办呢？”西蒙有很多想法。 “你可以把班上所有的宠物都放出来。”他很快地说。 “会有乌龟和仓鼠，还有

bunnies everywhere. Or you can start a food fight. You know, throw a handful of french fries across the cafeteria and squirt some ketchup at somebody's head." "Umm—" I said, trying to interrupt. But Simon was on a roll. "Or you could go into the bathroom, unroll the toilet paper, and wrap it around the outside of the school," he went on, walking backward in front of me and Rosie as he talked. "Or you could crumple up hundreds of pieces of paper and fill up a bunch of lockers with them. Then when people open their lockers, there's this big cascade of paper pouring out at them. Or you could turn the sink on in Mrs. Bruton's science room, plug the drain, and flood the school. Or you could—"

兔子无处不在。或者你可以发起一场食物大战。 你知道，把一把薯条扔到自助餐厅的另一边，把番茄酱喷到别人的头上。” “嗯——”我说，试图打断他。 但西蒙却一路顺风。“或者你可以走进浴室，展开卫生纸，把它包在学校外面，”他继续说道，一边说着，一边向后走到我和罗茜面前。 “或者你可以把几百张纸揉成一团，塞进一堆储物柜里。 当人们打开他们的储物柜时，会有一大堆纸倾泻而出。 或者你可以打开布鲁顿夫人科学教室的水槽，堵住排水管，把学校淹了。 或者你可以——”

"Simon?" Rosie interrupted. "Yeah?" "How do you come up with your ideas?" "I'm just really clever, I guess." "Okay, umm, those are all great suggestions," I said. There was something Simon said that had sparked an idea in me. It was right at the edge of my mind—and I knew if I concentrated I could figure it out. "Listen, you gave me an idea, I think. I'll use the toilet paper. Not quite the way you suggested. But I'll use it to get into trouble. So, I'll take care of step one —getting into the principal's office."

“西蒙?”罗西中断。 “是吗?”“你是怎么想到这些点子的？”“我想，我只是真的很聪明。” “好吧，嗯，这些都是很好的建议，”我说。 西蒙说的话激发了我的灵感。 它就在我脑海的边缘——我知道如果我集中注意力，我就能弄清楚。 “听着，我觉得你给了我一个主意。 我要用厕纸。 跟你说的不太一样。 但我会用它来惹上麻烦。 所以，我来处理第一步——进入校长办公室。”

"Now, we need to take care of step two," Rosie said. She stopped on the sidewalk at the end of my driveway. "Once Molly is in, we have to get Principal

“现在，我们需要进行第二步，”罗西说。 她停在我车道尽头的人行道上。 “莫莉一进来，我们就得去找校长