QUESTION,â said Mrs. Robo-Yonkers.
âFiremen banana stomach pitchfork?â I asked.
âI DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION,â said Mrs. Robo-Yonkers. âPLEASE REPEAT THE QUESTION.â
âFootball my orange telephone?â I asked.
âDOES NOT COMPUTE,â said Mrs. Robo-Yonkers. âPLEASE REPEAT.â
âWatermelon lawn chair atomic bicycle?â I asked.
âWhat are you doing, Arlo?â asked Andrea.
âComputers arenât very good at understanding language,â I said. âIâm yanking her chain. Thatâs what youâre supposed to do with substitute teachers. Itâs the first rule of being a kid.â
âI DO NOT UNDERSTAND,â said Mrs. Robo-Yonkers.
âMonster my upside down moon machine?â I asked.
âStop it, Arlo!â Andrea said. âYouâre going to get us in trouble!â
But it was too late. We were already in trouble. Mrs. Robo-Yonkers started shaking and twitching.
âSYSTEM ERROR! SYSTEM ERROR! SYSTEM ERROR!â she droned.
Smoke was coming out of her head,and sparks were shooting out of her neck. She started turning around in circles and bumping into desks.
âI think she blew a circuit!â said Michael.
Mrs. Robo-Yonkers was rolling crazily around the computer lab, crashing into everything in her path. Kids were diving out of the way.
âRun for your lives!â shouted Neil the nude kid.
âIâll get Mr. Klutz!â yelled Andrea as she ran out of the lab.
Mrs. Robo-Yonkers was bouncing around the computer lab like a pinball. She was out of control. Finally, Mr. Klutz came running in.
âWhatâs wrong?â he yelled.
âMrs. Robo-Yonkers has gone berserk!â I told him.
âLeave it to me,â Mr. Klutz said. âI used to work with computers in my younger days. Where does Mrs. Yonkers keep the robotâs remote control?â
âIn a remote location,â I said.
âSYSTEM ERROR! SYSTEM ERROR! SYSTEM ERROR!â
As Mrs. Robo-Yonkers spun around in circles, one of her arms hit Emily before she could duck out of the way.
âOwwww! My head!â Emily was on the floor, freaking out as usual.
âCall Mrs. Cooney!â shouted Mr. Klutz. âTell her to bring her first-aid kit!â
Mrs. Robo-Yonkers was running aroundthe computer lab. Mr. Klutz was running around the computer lab. All of us kids were running around the computer lab. It was a lot like that scene in the movie King Kong when Kong broke his chains and went running around the streets of New York. Everybody was going crazy.
And youâll never believe who showed up at that very moment.
It was Dr. Carbles, the president of the Board of Education! Oh, snap!
âKlutz!â Dr. Carbles shouted. âWhatâs the meaning of this?â
âNothing to worry about, sir,â Mr. Klutz said, as Mrs. Robo-Yonkers crashed into the whiteboard.
âWhy is it that every time I visit thisschool, the students are running around like lunatics?â demanded Dr. Carbles. âThese kids are obviously hopped up on junk food!â
âOh no, sir!â said Mr. Klutz. âWe got rid of all the junk food. We even put in a junk food detector at the front door.â
At that very moment, Mrs. Robo-Yonkers rammed into the closet where we hid all the candy the day before. Twinkies and Twix and Jolly Ranchers and Skittles and Chuckles went flying all over the place.
âKlutz!â yelled Dr. Carbles. âWhatâs the meaning of this? I thought you got rid of all the junk food.â
âWe did!â Mr. Klutz said. âSomebody get Mrs. Yonkers on the phone!â
Thatâs when Mrs. Cooney (who is beautiful) came running in with her first-aid kit. She took out her cell phone and started dialing frantically. Mrs. Robo-Yonkers was chasing Dr. Carbles around the computer lab. It was just like in that King Kong movie.
Mrs. Robo-Yonkers was