Hot Dog and Bob: Adventure 4 (7 page)

The next thing we knew, we were all back up on the playground at good old Lugenheimer Elementary. Not only had our friends forgotten about everything that just happened, but their bruised and aching bodies were all healed!

“Recess is over! Didn’t anybody hear the bell?” asked our teacher, Miss Lamphead. “It rang five minutes ago! What’s the matter with you kids? You’re all going deaf from listening to that horrible rock ‘n’ roll music! That’s it, isn’t it?”

“To tell you the truth, Miss Lamphead,” said Clementine, “we’ve been listening to quite a bit more rap than anything else lately.”

I’d like to say that everything ended happily ever after. And that’s basically true, except for one
beyond
bad thing. Clementine ended up finding the note I’d written on that candy wrapper. Remember the note I put in her pocket when she wasn’t breathing? The note where I promised to eat ten of her super-
sickening
sandwiches if she promised not to die?

“Okay, Bob,” she said the very next day at lunch, “here is your first tasty treat direct
from Clementine’s Café! It’s my yummy-nummy sardine, marshmallow and rice-noodle sandwich topped off with a squirt of vinegar! Bob? Where are you going? How do you know you don’t like it if you won’t even try it? Why are you running away? Come on, Bob! A promise is a promise! Hey! I’m not kidding, Bob! You come back here this minute, or else I’m never, ever helping you deal with another space alien as long as you live! Bob? Bob!!!”

As an award-winning investigative reporter specializing in extraterrestrial activity,
L. Bob Rovetch
has spent hundreds of hours interviewing Bob and helping him record his amazing but true adventures. Ms. Rovetch lives across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco with two perfect children and plenty of pets.

Dave Whamond
wanted to be a cartoonist ever since he could pick up a crayon. During math classes he would doodle in the margin of his papers. One math teacher warned him, “You’d better spend more time on your math and less time cartooning. You can’t make a living drawing funny pictures.” Today Dave has a syndicated daily comic strip, called
Reality Check.
Dave has one wife, two kids, one dog and one kidney. They all live together in Calgary, Alberta.