However, there’s no school because it is Saturday. His father tells him he is very big to have gone to school himself. Waiting on the front steps for the school to open, he hears his father’s car coming along. One morning he is so excited for school that he wakes before his parents and walks to school alone. She realizes the button is not a punishment for Zinkoff, but a badge of honor, and so she punishes him by keeping the button in her desk.Įven without the button, Zinkoff loves school. One day Miss Meeks leaves the class and, when she returns, Zinkoff informs her that he laughed when she was away. However, he laughs again, so she pins the button to him once more. Miss Meeks puts the button away, thinking her experiment is a success. Miss Meeks pins a large yellow button to Zinkoff’s shirt that says "I know I can behave." He wears it for an hour, not laughing once. When he laughs potato out of his nose, they send him to his room.įor the rest of the week, students wait until Zinkoff stops laughing before they say the word, setting him off again. He continues to laugh about it at the dinner table, eventually trying his parents’ patience. The teacher forbids the students from using the word because of the distraction it causes, but Zinkoff can’t help giggle when it jumps into his head. Zinkoff laughs so hard he falls from his chair. One day Miss Meeks uses the made-up word “Jabip” during a lesson.
At dinner in the evenings, his father asks what’s new, varying nicknames such as Boogaloo and Pookypoo, all of which tickle Zinkoff’s ribs and cause him to laugh. Zinkoff is surprised to learn that every day of school sparks the same excitement as the first.
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