to another city And their school had a brand-new principal His name was Mr Proctor You got it Blatzo said to Justine I won’t open your bottled water Especially since you used capital letters Capital letters make it a very serious thing Blatzo was big and looked pretty mean At one time he was proud to be known as the school bully But Justine had changed all that My turn for her fortune cookie Michael said He opened Justine’s lunch box Justine’s friends knew that her grammy sometimes worked at a Chinese restaurant and brought home fortune cookies Michael found Justine’s fortune cookie and looked at the plastic wrap 2
I don’t see anything written on this Michael said I guess I can open it As long as you give me the wrap to recycle Justine said Question Safdar said to Justine Why did you write that on your water bottle You mean where it says DO NOT OPEN Justine asked Yes Safdar said Because I don’t want anyone to open it Justine answered Of course Safdar said Silly question But why don’t you want it to be opened Bad question Blatzo told Safdar That’s why I didn’t ask I knew it would be smarter just to obey and not open it 3
How is it a bad question Safdar asked Blatzo It’s just bottled water Anyone would want to know why she wrote it Especially since she used capital letters Because now she is going to answer Blatzo said And I have better things to worry about than why that bottled water should stay closed Like my project for the science fair Maybe I should do my project on why sciencefair sciencefair projects are a waste of time Safdar I am so glad you asked Justine said Did you know that if you made a stack of eight million dimes that stack would reach as high as most jets fly That should give you an idea of how big that number is Eight million That’s about how many gallons of oil it takes each month to make the plastic for all 5
