I Am Not Joey Pigza

FromI Am Not Joey Pigza "I couldn't sleep the other night," Dad said, "and then I was stung with a brilliant idea!" Before I knew it I was dressed in a fuzzy black-and-yellow bee costume and standing out in front of the diner on the side of Highway 30. The head on the bee costume was so huge that Dad had to tape it to the bee body to keep it from falling off. I had a huge cardboard sign nailed to a stick, which I waved back and forth as cars passed. COMING SOON! BEEHIVE DINER FAST FOO Dad had run out of room on the sign, so there was no D on food. When I pointed that out to him he just tapped the side of his head and said slyly, "When people see the mistake it will make them look twice. One of the great rules of advertising is that there is no such thing as bad publicity." Below FOO he had written in smaller letters,No job? No money? Eat Thanksgiving dinner for free noon to three!It seemed to me that a car would have to be creeping along at about two miles an hour to read our free invitation. "You drum up business," he had said, putting the sign in my hand. "I've got some new numbers to play. Then I'll make a food supply run and pick up your mom downtown." He got into the Heinzmobile. "And remember, hardworking little honeybees harvest good karma for the hive. See you later, bee-boy!"Gantos, Jack is the author of 'I Am Not Joey Pigza ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780374399412 and ISBN 0374399417.