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Lap tickets are only available on game/event day and can be purchased at the ticket office at the venue in which the event is being held
Only children UNDER age 2 are eligible for the lap ticket discount
This lap ticket policy only applies to home contests in football, men’s basketball, and men’s ice hockey

What time do doors to the main concourse open?

The Ticket Office will be open 90 minutes before game time for will call and ticket sales. The doors to the main concourse will open 90 minutes before tip-off.

Where do I park?

Public parking can be found at the Buckeye Lots at the corner of Ackerman Road and Fred Taylor Drive. Cost is $15 per vehicle. The Quick Schott Shuttle service begins 90 minutes prior to game time and continues up to 1 hour after the game is over. Click here to view a Men’s Basketball Parking Map.

Where do the permanent seats begin?

In the 100 (entry) level, permanent seating begins in row L on the sides and row M on the ends/corners. Seats in the lower rows are temporary padded folding chairs. Please click here for a Men’s Basketball Seating Map.

How are the seats numbered?

When seated in a section, seat 1 is always on the right.

What side is the team bench on?

The home bench is located in front of section 104-105 and the visiting bench is in front of 106-107.

If I cannot attend an event, is my ticket refundable?

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Where can I pick up my tickets?

Will Call is located in the Southeast corner of the Schottenstein Center and is open M-F 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. and starting 90 minutes before tip-off on home game days for:

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Will Call located in the Northwest corner (auxillary gym hallway) of the Schottenstein Center is open 90 minutes prior to tip-off until halftime for:

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Can I lose my ticket privileges?

Yes, you may lose your ticket privileges if you have engaged in conduct that is determined, by either OSU or the NCAA, to be in violation of any NCAA rule or if, in OSU’s reasonable discretion, you have otherwise taken any action that jeopardizes the eligibility of OSU’s programs or its student-athletes.

How do I exchange my current tickets for accessible seating?

Season ticket holders and single game purchasers should request accessible seating by indicating your specific seating needs when submitting your ticket application online. Be sure to indicate whether you need seats that do not require climbing many steps or if you require wheelchair accessible seating. If you are in possession of tickets that are not accessible, please bring them to the Guest Services at the Schottenstein Center starting 90 minutes prior to tip-off on game day. Guest Services is located outside of section 122 on the main concourse at the Schottenstein Center. All seating is limited; accessible seating is made available on a first come first serve basis and we cannot guarantee accessible seating will be available for individuals needing to exchange tickets on game day.

Wheelchair accessible rows are as follows:
100 level (entry level)-Row S in sections 101, 105-106, 111, 117-121, 124-131, & 134
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Note: There are no wheelchair accessible seats in the 200 (Huntington Club) level of the arena.

Season ticket holders can fill out a Disability Needs form for accessible seating. The form can be found by clicking here.

Do student tickets require a BuckID at the gate?

Student tickets will be scanned from their phone (not BuckID) and then a hard ticket will be distributed at the Southwest Rotunda

Why can't I buy tickets for certain events?

Athletic tickets usually go on sale a few weeks prior to the first game of the season based on availability. Certain games, however, may be sold out through season ticket holder sales. Those who are interested may continue to check our website or www.ticketmaster.com closer to game day for any possible public ticket releases.

Can I buy tickets to away games?

The away game allotments that we receive are usually minimal. We do not typically have an away game sale for our alumni or general public. We encourage you to contact the host school for any availability they may have.

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For more information on how to manage your mobile tickets, please click here.

Options for fans without smart phones will be announced at a later date.
For fans without smart phones, please review the Mobile Ticket Assistance drop down

Mobile Ticket Assistance

At what age are you required to have a ticket?

Lap tickets are only available on game/event day and can be purchased at the ticket office at the venue in which the event is being held
Only children UNDER age 2 are eligible for the lap ticket discount
This lap ticket policy only applies to home contests in football, men’s basketball, and men’s ice hockey

What time do doors to the main concourse open?

The Ticket Office will be open 90 minutes before game time for will call and ticket sales. The doors to the main concourse will open 90 minutes before tip-off.

Where do I park?

Where do the permanent seats begin?

How are the seats numbered?

When seated in a section, seat 1 is always on the right.

What side is the team bench on?

The home bench is located in front of section 104-105 and the visiting bench is in front of 106-107.

If I cannot attend an event, is my ticket refundable?

All tickets purchased through the Ohio State Athletics Ticket Office are non-refundable and non-exchangeable.

Purchasing a ticket from someone outside of the Ohio State Athletics Ticket Office?

Where can I pick up my tickets?

Will Call is located in the Southeast corner of the Schottenstein Center and is open M-F 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. and starting 90 minutes before tip-off on home game days for:

Regular public ticket orders
Faculty/Staff ticket orders

Will Call located in the Northwest corner (auxillary gym hallway) of the Schottenstein Center is open 90 minutes prior to tip-off until halftime for:

Ohio State players’ and coaches’ guests

Can I lose my ticket privileges?

How do I exchange my current tickets for accessible seating?

Season ticket holders can fill out a Disability Needs form for accessible seating. The form can be found by clicking here.

Do student tickets require a BuckID at the gate?

Student tickets will be scanned from their phone (not BuckID) and then a hard ticket will be distributed at the Southwest Rotunda

Why can't I buy tickets for certain events?

Can I buy tickets to away games?

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Common myths about America

The USA is the state that is spoken about everywhere. There are stereotypes about him, 10 of which are discussed in detail in this article.

Unhealthy diet: fast food, freezing, overeating

photo: mcykt.ru

This is partly true. Americans cook little to save time. Instead, they order food from a pizzeria or buy hamburgers. At the same time, the restaurant business in the field of national dishes is actively developing in the country.
America is a multinational country, with Vietnamese cafes, Japanese sushi bars, French bakeries... In prestigious restaurants and cafes, waiters offer a second drink if they see that the first one is finished or finished. It can be iced tea, soda or soda, and most of the time it's free. Hence such a national problem as obesity.

The second factor in the appearance of excess weight in most Americans was the food crisis - people lost their food culture, they began to eat "for the future". At the moment, many Americans have begun to pay more attention to healthy eating, so organic food stores are preferred to supermarkets, or they are purchased from local farmers.

Laziness

Several sub-items can be included in this item:

They spend their whole life in a car, avoiding walking. In fact, Americans are forced to drive cars, because. they do not have such a developed public transport industry as in Eurasia.
They don't go in for sports much. To stay in good physical shape, it is not necessary to purchase subscriptions to gyms or sports sections. Many state parks have jogging and cycling trails, people do yoga on lawns, kids play basketball in backyards, and there are plenty of surfers on the coasts.
Don't want to sweep the streets or pick up grocery carts in the parking lot. A native of any country wants to work in a prestigious position, and Americans are no exception. Especially those who took out a loan to study at the university. Therefore, for low-paid vacancies, more applications come from migrants.
Do not read. This is a myth, because there are no fewer readers than in any other country. But many schoolchildren are lazy, and therefore, instead of reading the work assigned by the teacher during the summer holidays, they look for ready-made essays on the Internet.

And officially Americans have fewer holidays and days off than Russians or Europeans. But this can be discussed with the employer individually.

Ah, that fake smile

photo: americanbutler.ru

Russians are accustomed to treating Americans as hypocrites because even a complete stranger can come up, greet them and ask "how are you?" It's all about upbringing: they show friendliness and openness in this way. Therefore, Russians seem rude to them if they do not reciprocate.

They are taught this from childhood: “say hello to your aunt”, “ask the boy how he is doing”, etc. But they are as polite as possible only where it is welcomed.

There are a lot of homeless people on the streets

This is true, and is justified by several factors:

a low mortgage rate would help solve the problem if it were not for the expensive maintenance of housing, but only people with excellent credit history approve of it;
US Department of Veterans Affairs only provides 70% housing for veterans;
The authorities of large cities are trying to get rid of poor neighborhoods - elite apartment complexes are being built on the site of the old housing stock, and as a result, people either move to small cities or become homeless;
unionization and difficulty finding work;
antisocial lifestyle.

Volunteer organizations and state social payments come to the aid of the homeless: at the time of writing, this is $710 for personal needs and $200 for food.

Oklahoma is not the poorest state, and Washington is not the richest

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Oklahoma has a high crime rate due to racial persecution and unemployment, but in general this state is richer:

Louisiana. The economy of this region has been hit hard by natural disasters. The income level of residents began to decline, and unemployment - to grow.
Alabama. It is an agricultural state with a previously high income from agriculture, but in recent decades, fertile soils have been hit hard by natural disasters.
North Carolina. In this state, the level of agricultural production has sharply decreased and the number of homeless people has increased. One in six people cannot afford to purchase health insurance.

But it seems more paradoxical that Washington is not the richest state, even though the capital has the highest salaries. If you look at GDP per capita, statistics on the unemployed and on people who purchase health insurance, their purchasing power and social status, then in ten states people live richer than residents of Washington.

According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), these are:

California;
Texas;
New York;
Florida;
Illinois;
Pennsylvania;
Ohio;
New Jersey;
Virginia;
Michigan.

California also has the largest number of households in the entire country at over 3,000,000. At the time of writing, their annual income exceeds $125,000.

Thinking abilities

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This stereotype is built primarily on the fact that these people do not know geography well outside the country. The thing is that people prefer to travel around their homeland. But this should in no way form a stereotype about the erudition of Americans - this country is famous for world scientists, programmers, engineers and qualified doctors.

It is worth noting that the level of education of future graduates may suffer due to the abolition of state exams, which serve as an analogue of the USE, in Michigan and some other states. Also, some American graduates may not only not take exams, but also receive certificates of courses taken listing acquired skills, on the basis of which a document on secondary education will be issued.

Based on all of the above, we can say that Americans are not so different from other nations. They are friendly, but not hypocritical, and also survive as best they can, and love their country.

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Read Online Chaos Is Normal by Sharon Creech - LitRes

Dedicated to Karin and Rob Lewty and all members of the Creech family
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Dear Mr Birkway!

I bring to your attention my summer diary. As you can see, I got a little carried away with it.

But the problem is different. I don't want you to read it.

Indeed. I just wanted to let you know that I wrote it. I didn't want you to think I'm one of those teenagers who says, "Yes, I did it, but then I lost it / my puppy ate it / my little brother dropped it in the toilet."

But please, PLEASE DO NOT READ IT! How was I to know what was going to happen to me this summer? How was I to know that Carl Ray would come to our city and turn everything into an odyssey? And how was I to know about Alex?.. Sigh!

PLEASE DO NOT READ IT! I beg you.

Yours sincerely, Mary Lou Finney

Tuesday June 12

Oh, someone would tell me what a diary is. When I asked my mom, she said, "Well, it's kind of like a diary, but not really." And thanks for that. She was about to explain more, but Mrs. Furtz (she had recently moved into the house across the street) called and complained that my brother Dennis had been throwing eggs at their house. Mom freaked out and did not have time to tell me everything to the end. How can I keep a diary if I don't even really know what it is?

I wouldn't do it at all, but Mrs Zollar asked me to. She is our English teacher. Mrs Zollar asked us to keep a diary this summer and bring it (in September) to school and show it to our new English teacher.

So, new English teacher, I think I should tell you who I am. My name is Mary Lou Finney. I live at 4059 Buxton Road in Easton, Ohio. I have the most ordinary strange family.

Here is, so to speak, a list of actors.

Sam Finney (I am not allowed to disclose his age) is my dad. He is a pretty normal dad. Sometimes he loves us, but sometimes we piss him off. And when we piss him off, he usually goes out into the garden and starts weeding furiously. When he is at work, he is a geologist and draws maps all day long.

Sally Finney (I am also not allowed to disclose her age and tell you or anyone else) is my mother. She is also a pretty normal mom. Sometimes she lisps with us, sometimes she asks dad if he can do something with us. When we piss her off, she usually screams a little. When she is at work, she is an ethnographer and spends her days talking into a tape recorder what older people tell her. It seems to me that when she returns home, she no longer wants to hear what others are saying.

Maggie Finney (seventeen) is the eldest daughter. My sister. The typical big sister, obsessed with boys and nail polish, with whom I have the misfortune to share a room. She forbids me to touch her things.

Mary Lou Finney (thirteen) is the next oldest sister. It's me. To be honest, I don't know who I am. I'm still waiting for this to be figured out.

Dennis Finney (twelve years old) is a brother who will climb a tree with you one minute and vilely betray you to your parents the next. He always gets into trouble (he will either throw eggs at Mrs. Furtz's house, or break other people's windows with apples, and so on). Otherwise, it can be tolerated.

Doug Finney (better known as Dougie) (age eight) is lost in the middle of everyone else. He is terribly skinny and follows everyone with his tail. He's quieter and more serious than the others, so no one really minds when he trails off, but he calls himself "little filthy".

Tommy Finney (four years old) is a typical spoiled child. Everyone thinks he's cute and he gets away with it. You will not believe it, but when he eats, he manages to smear food from head to toe.

Keeping a diary is not as difficult as I thought. I hope I'm doing everything right. It would be terrible to pore over it all summer, and then turn it in for verification and hear: “Oh, it’s not a diary, my dear.”

I was trying to ask Mrs. Zollar a million questions about the diary when she gave us this assignment, but Alex Chewie said, “Push, why do we need to know too much?! After all, then we have to do everything right. Can't you just shut up for once?"

Now I will think about it. I used to think that Alex Chivi is handsome, because his skin is always a little pinkish, as if he was running and a little out of breath, and his hair is always clean and shiny, and one day we had to do an oral presentation together, and although I did a lot part of the job, when we finished, he patted me on the back, as if he realized what a good job I had done. He's also the best player on the basketball team, fast and agile, and it's nice to see him, he runs so beautifully when he dribbles. But now, when I think about it, I understand that in fact he is a complete nonentity.

Wednesday 13 June

I was sitting thinking about last Friday, the last day of school, when I heard Christy and Megan talking about Christy's party. They didn't invite me. They always have parties, but they only invited me once, and that was because I brought Megan some textbooks when she was sick, and explained homework for three hours and even did some of it for her, and so for about a week she was my friend.

But the party was the most lame (I know there's no such word as lameest) I've ever been to: the girls were giggling in the middle of the room, the boys were leaning against the wall, and then they put on some music and started dancing, but only the girls with girls, until finally someone put on a slow song, and then some boys invited girls to a slow dance, and they hung around their necks, but no one invited me to dance, so I stood near the table with food and pretended like I'm terribly hungry.

I keep forgetting to think. I'll try to think about parties. If I were a boy, I would like them to come up with something interesting, like playing basketball.

After our last exam, Christy drove up to Alex and said:

- Done, Alex, see you tonight.

(I'll try to reproduce their dialogue here.)

Alex looked down at his sneakers and mumbled:

– Uh.

Christy moved her shoulders and squeaked in a thin voice:

– So, are you coming?

Alex put the toes of his sneakers together like he was a clubfoot and mumbled:

– Uh.

Christie put her face close to his nose.

- At eight o'clock. Do not forget! - she said.

Then she patted him on the shoulder several times, turned around and walked away. God.

I went home from school with Beth Ann. Beth-Anne Bartels is my best friend, I think so. We are very different, but we are friends with her, without any hassles and quarrels, since the fourth grade. I tell her everything and she tells me everything, even things I don't want to know, like what she had for breakfast and what her father wears to bed and how much her new sweater costs. Sometimes these things are just not interesting.

Okay, anyway, on the way home, when Beth Ann and I passed Tasty Freeze, it suddenly occurred to me that school was over and summer had come, and tomorrow I would be free as a bird, and for three whole months I will not see most of the students of our school. Beth Ann and I live on the far side of the school district, about two miles from the school. It looks like everyone else lives on the other side of it. On the one hand, it’s even a little sad that the school year is over. On the other hand, isn't that always the case? You wait, you wait for something, and then when it happens, it becomes sad.

I always go to Beth Ann's before I go home. This is our little ritual. We enter the house and are greeted with silence. How different it is from my house, where the zoo reigns at any hour of the day or night. Her house is always sparkling clean, as if someone has just walked through it with a rag and vacuum cleaner, or as if no one lives there. We always have different clothes lying around at home: socks on the stereo, jackets on the kitchen table, piles of papers and books on chairs and tables. That's why I like to visit Beth Ann's before I go home.

Both Beth Ann's parents work, and Judy's older sister does too, so we are on our own in the house. We always go to the kitchen; I sit down at the table and Beth Ann gets out a bottle of cola and a bag of fries. No, just imagine: there are always cola and french fries! In our house, such things would be gone in ten minutes.

When I left Beth Ann's, on my way home I ran into Alex Chewie. Actually, he doesn't live in the area. He walked with his hands in his pockets, and was all sort of pink.

- Alex Chevy? What are you doing here? I asked as he got closer.

- So you live here? - he asked. I said yes, here.

“Oh, what a coincidence,” he said.

- Why? I asked.

“I just know someone here,” he replied.

- On Buxton Road? I asked.

I was a little surprised because Buxton Road is a very short street and I know everyone who lives there and I've never seen Alex Chevey there before.

“No,” he replied.

- To Winston? I asked.

Winston is the next street.

“Yeah,” he replied.

- And who is this? I asked.

I'm already tired of writing "I said" and "he said". Sometimes you don't need to insert these words to understand who is speaking, but I won't do that again.

– Murphy. ( Alex said this.)

– Murphy?

Never heard of any Murphys. Anyway, we talked for a while, and he asked me if I was going to Christy's party. I told him no, I'm not going to, and I'm glad I'm not going to.

It was the last day of school, and when I went to bed, I thought that everyone was at this party now, including Alex, and even wished I was there. Not that I thought it would be fun, it was just that I had nothing to do that evening. I have not yet gotten used to the idea that the holidays are coming.

Hell, if I write so much every day during the holidays, I'll need ten of these diaries. Mrs. Z. will surely be surprised!!!

However, for your sake, my enigmatic reader, I hope things get more interesting from now on. God.

Thursday, June 14

I must admit we have some exciting news today! I almost missed it because of the general turmoil at dinner. We always have a commotion at dinner, you won't even hear yourself. It was spaghetti today and Dougie doesn't like spaghetti and he was running it all over his plate and splattering the catfish sauce all over the place and so Dennis hit him and Doogie was whimpering and mama told him to calm down and eat his spaghetti because that he won't get anything else.

"I'm just a little dirty," Dougie said.

"That's right," Dennis confirmed.

In the midst of all this, dad said:

– I received a letter from Radin today. Radin is the wife of my father's brother, Uncle Carl Joe, and they live in West Virginia.

- Did you see him? Dad asked. (Referring to the letter.)

- No, I haven't seen it. Dougie, if you don't stop this roaring this minute...

(I'm writing this to give you an idea of how hard it is to follow a conversation.)

- She's asking...

- Dennis, are you doing this on purpose? If you...

Mom can't eat herself, she's busy trying to figure out who's responsible for the mess. All this time, Tommy is throwing spaghetti all over the floor, they even hang on his hair, but he always eats like that.

- Sally, are you listening to me or not?

Dad gets annoyed, he hates this bedlam, and this happens every evening.

- Of course I do, Sam. Dennis, put your hands on the table so I can see them.

“Radin wants to send Carl Ray to join us,” Dad said, and put a meatball in his mouth.

Around this time, Dougie gets so angry that he spills milk right on my plate.

– Sam, can you do anything with them? Mom is outraged.

Dad looked up from the meatballs and spaghetti.

"I'm afraid my research on rocks and fossils hasn't prepared me for this," he said.

I don't know how miraculously we calmed down, but it became quiet for a while, and then Mom finally realized what Dad had said about ten minutes ago.

- So what did Radin say?

- She wants to send Carl Ray here to us.

Carl Ray is one of the seven children of Aunt Radin and Uncle Carl Joe. He is my cousin.

- What do you mean she wants to send Carl Ray here?

Mama didn't seem to be too happy about this news.

"Temporarily," answered dad. He wants to find a job, but they don't have jobs there. He will stay with us until he gets a job and gets on his feet.

– Will she send him here? To this house to live with us?

As I said, my mother didn't seem too happy about this news. Then she said:

- Don't you think that's a little strange, Sam? There are many other places he could go to, aren't there?

Dad shrugged. He generally prefers to remain silent.

– Where will we put him? Mom didn't even eat.

- Well, we could put the boys together...

- All three?

- It's okay. Then we could put Carl Ray in the little room where Tommy is currently sleeping.

– In the nursery? Sam, are you serious?

- This is temporary, just a month ... Two at most. Well, maybe summer...

– Summer? Are you serious?

Dad studied the meatball with interest.

- And when does she want Carl Ray to come to us? - Mom did not let up.

“Saturday,” answered papa with his mouth full.

Mom almost choked.

- Saturday? What Saturday? Sam, today is Thursday! You must be joking. Why didn't she call?

- They don't have a phone. You know that,” he replied.

- What a primitive! Maggie put in a word.

Maggie herself can't survive without a phone for a day, trust me.

So Carl Ray is coming the day after tomorrow. Curious. To be honest, I'm a little surprised, mainly because the West Virginia branch of the Finney family almost never leaves West Virginia. The only time I know of when Uncle Carl Joe ventured north was when he came to visit my dad and met Aunt Radin, but that was a long time ago.

My parents talk about that time every New Year's Eve. That's because everything went wrong on New Year's Eve, and Uncle Carl Joe and Aunt Radin fell in love "at first sight." Then Uncle Carl Joe took Aunt Radin to West Virginia (if I'm not mistaken, they got married before that), and since then they haven't even stuck their nose out of there. They never visit us. They have too many kids to fit all in the car. But we have been to them.

I can hardly remember what my cousin Carl Ray looks like, but according to Maggie, he is the one of the cousins who has blond hair and is seventeen years old, the same age as Maggie herself. But it's already interesting .

Friday, June 15

Oh my God, what a day! This Carl Ray thing is getting out of hand. When I got up this morning, I noticed that instead of Mom's usual notes with instructions for each of us, there was only one next to the phone, and it said:

“Maggie or Mary Loooo, call me at work when you wake up. I love you, your mommy."

I knew right away that just because she didn't leave a to-do list for each of us, it doesn't mean we have nothing to do. I know my mother well. This probably meant that there were a lot of cases and she could not list them all. And I turned out to be right.

She gave me a mile-long to-do list, all because of Carl Ray. Basically, we had to move everything from Tommy's room to Dennis and Doug's, bring a spare bed from the attic, put it in Tommy's room, clean the windows, and so on.

Actually, at first it was even fun. We love to rearrange things. But when Dennis and I were dragging the bed from the attic, we had a little problem.

The frame with springs on that bed is old, heavy, metal. It was terribly hard to drag her from the attic to the first floor, so we decided to push her down like a hill. I was upstairs and Dennis downstairs when the frame slid forward and crashed into the door below, leaving a huge crack in it, and then fell on Dennis, and one spring dug into his knee, and he screamed, and blood spattered everything around.

It was a real bedlam. Maggie was yelling at Dennis to stop yelling and Dennis was yelling at me saying it was my fault and I was yelling at Dennis saying it wasn't true and Dougie was crying because he couldn't stand the sight of blood and Tommy was crying because everyone else was screaming.

Then Maggie rushed to Mrs. Furtz, because she was the only neighbor in the house. I don't think she was thrilled to have to help us after Dennis threw eggs at her house, but she ran out in a dressing gown and curlers in her hair and told me to bandage Dennis' leg while she changed, and then promised to take him to the emergency room. And I, trying to remember the lessons of first aid, bandaged his leg with a pillowcase. I was about to apply a tourniquet, but Dennis didn't even want to hear it. He kept repeating that he was about to vomit. I hate it when people puke.

Maggie called her mother, who said she would meet Mrs. Furtz and Dennis at the trauma ward. I wanted to go too, but Maggie said that my mother told her to go with them, and I should stay at home with Tommy. I think Maggie came up with it.

Maggie and Dennis have been gone for ages. I was scared that Dennis was dead or something. This happens sometimes. Last year in Literature class, we read a poem by Robert Frost called "Get Out, Get Out" about a boy who almost had his hand cut off with a buzz saw and died while having it sewn back on. It was a terribly sad poem, because at the end, no one seemed to care that he was dead. People just went about their business.

To be honest, I love Dennis very much and will miss him very much if he dies, but I thought that in that case I would get his new bike. But then I was ashamed of such thoughts and even pulled out a mattress from the attic myself and, with the help of Dougie, made a bed. Then I got up on that bed, pulled down the curtains, put them in the dirty laundry basket, and washed the windows. When Maggie and Dennis came home with my mom, who had taken the day off from work, I had done most of the work.

But my mother hardly noticed my work, as she was busy licking Dennis in every possible way. Dennis was pathetic. He wasn't even close to dead - he just had a huge bandage on his knee. All day he lay on the couch in the living room and moaned. He got ice cream and ginger lemonade, and my mother kept coming into the room and feeling his forehead. (Forehead! What forehead? After all, the knee was damaged!)

Mom said only two things about Carl Ray's room. First she said:

- Thank you girls for preparing her.

Girls!

- What is there. Nothing, Maggie replied with a smile.

Ha.

And the second thing mom said:

- I can't even imagine Carl Ray in the children's room.

This is really funny. That room has yellow walls (which isn't too bad) and white, frilled curtains with yellow bunnies on them (wow!) and a border along the top of the walls that also has yellow bunnies.

I wonder how we will be here when Carl Ray arrives. Whenever I ask Maggie to tell me more about him, she pretends it doesn't concern her. But I noticed that she put a bottle of her perfume in the bathroom, which is weird because she usually hides it in her drawer so I don't touch it.

Everyone seems to be terribly excited that Carl Ray is coming. Even my mother, which surprises me, it seemed to me that she did not long for his arrival. The question continues to torment me, how will we all use the bathroom. After all, eight people will use it. Even now, when there are only seven of us, this is a problem. There is another bathroom downstairs, but there is only a toilet and a sink.

Mom told me and Maggie that we would have to put on our bathrobes. I wonder if Carl Ray will also wear a bathrobe?

Saturday, June 16

Well, that's it. Carl Ray has arrived.

It's almost midnight and Maggie is out and about with her boyfriend, Kenny, making dad crazy. Maggie hasn't seen Carl Ray yet. But that's not what dad is freaking out about: he's freaking out with worry because Maggie and Kenny left at noon and went to the beach and didn't say when they'd be back. I think she's got a good brainwash. Everyone else went to bed, but dad stayed downstairs to wait for her.

And now about Carl Ray. Personally, I'm disappointed. I expected to see a completely different person. We waited for him all morning, now and then looking out the windows. Around noon, Dad returned from Alessi's. On Saturdays he does groceries and then he goes to Alessi's, the Italian deli, and he buys a ham and two loaves of bread - hot, fresh, burnt bread - and as soon as he gets home and we put the food on the shelves, we always pounce on the hot bread and ham and make huge sandwiches. This is usually the best time on a Saturday.

Before we had time to put away the food, and a few seconds before we were about to cut this wonderful bread, Dougie enters the kitchen and yells:

– Carl Ray! Carl Ray! There's a guy at the door who says he's Carl Ray!

Well, he chose the time.

Carl Ray is tall and skinny as a skeleton, as skinny as a human can be and still alive. He has very light, almost white hair, and it sticks out on the top of his head and near his ears, where he cuts it short. He's also eerily pale and has a million freckles on his face and arms, but those are the parts of him that are visible. Something tells me that he has freckles everywhere. He has tiny eyes and a tiny nose. I would even say that his head looks like a miniature copy of the head of an ordinary person. And this little, little head sits on top of a tall, skinny body, and from this skinny body hangs two long, thin, freckled arms, and there are two more long, skinny legs. Such a handsome man.

Carl Ray hasn't really said anything yet, and Mom thinks it's because he's nervous. He constantly looks down at your feet and never looks at your face.

After we took him from the living room to the kitchen, my mother told us children to wait and not attack the ham and bread until Carl Ray had his portion. Everything is clear: now the owner is Carl Ray. He is the only one who has his own private room, and he is the only one who is allowed to grab six slices of ham and four slices of bread before the rest get even a piece.

After dinner, my mother showed Carl Ray to his room and apologized for the rabbits and stuff. He didn't say a word, just looked around and put down his suitcase. Mom said he could get some rest (probably because he ate such a HUGE lunch) and he nodded and closed the door. Then mom told us all to calm down and not make noise until he wakes up. Like this.

So everyone tiptoed around the house all day long, but he didn't even leave his room until he smelled the smell of dinner. As soon as we put everything on the table, he was already right there. As if he was following us.

Mom told Carl Ray to sit at the end of the table across from dad. This is the “honorary” place where we all sit in turn. I don't know why it's honorary; just an honor, that's all.
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