Totally Joe (20 page)

Joke. Bad taste. Sorry.

 

Mr. D: I'm pretty sure this is the right word. I looked it up.

 

Mr. D: I am
so
not making this up!

Mr. D: Sorry to have to get all R-rated.

 

Mr. D: I hope it's okay to be thinking about teachers being gay. I mean, it's kind of personal, but it's not an insult or anything.

Mr. D: This is the closest font I could find to Colin's handwriting, which, as you know, is extremely neat for a thirteen-year-old boy (or anybody, for that matter).

 

French for “Skeezie is a pig, truly!”

 

Mr. D: I'm going to try to remember the rest of what we said, but I'm getting tired of having to say “he said” all the time, so I'm just going to put down our words.

Fruitcake. Flipper. Fajita. Fungus. Dr. Frank N. Furter.

 

Mr. D: I got this from that poem you read us the other day.

 

People's Exhibit A: Kevin = handsome. Not.

One thing I know is that
bubeleh
means “sweetheart” in Yiddish and that when someone calls you
bubeleh
, there's a 99% chance you're about to get your cheeks pinched. I also know that being twelve doesn't mean you don't know anything.