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Johnny Gets
a Locker:
The Tuna Mystery
'‘Slowly but surely, they swell with papers, clothes and
jackets. Books,
Little Johnny is an incoming 7th grader. This new environment is very uncomfortable for many 7th graders. Johnny has come prepared. He and his mother recently purchased a locker organizer, equipped with shelves and even a drawer. The first day of school, everyone is assigned their locker and given their locker combination. The first time Johnny tries, he can't seem to get the combination right. The second time the lock gets jammed. Take a deep breath, and try one more time, Johnnyl The third time's the charm, right? Wrong! Johnny'sfriends tried, his homeroom teacher tried, and finally the custodian
Pete Kaczmar adorns his locker cre­ atively, complete with tiger skin, Christmas lights, and a tin lunchbox. Now, that's a fashion statement!
papers, clothes, and jackets. Books, shoes, and bags are lost in the heaps of junkfound in these metal cells.
One day, a strange odor penetrates the wall of lockers. Everyone plugs their noses, points fingers, and groans at the anonymous
smell. Bobby, Johnny's neighbor upstairs, had the worst locker of all. Johnny wasn't sure that this was the origin of the mysterious smell. Bobby loves tuna fish - he eats it everyday, except one. Two weeks ago, Bobby couldn't find his bagged lunch. The mystery is solved! The odor has been identified! Nowthateveryoneis completely disgusted, we arrive at the moral of the story: be patient with your locker, keep it clean and organized, and keep tuna fish refrigerated.
Anna Weiss
shoes, and bags had to open it with the key.
are lost in the heaps ofjunk found in these
metal cells.”
What good is a locker organizer without a locker?
All is good now, as Johnny is revealed the secretto opening his locker - tapping the doorthree times and inch above the combination pad. As the year progresses, Johnny's locker remains nice and neat. The students around him, though, pay no attention to their lockers. Slowly but surely, they
swell with
This locker is as plain as they come. A two week old brown bag lunch, and a schedule taped down onto the side complete the simple, but functional look.
12 * Student life