Assorted Bluey One-Shots

Episode XX: Freaky Weeky

One night, Mum was on her computer. She was on that shopping app that's named after a jungle, and ordering her favorite perfume. "Dad," I asked, "Why does Mum use perfume?" "to smell good for everyone" Dad said, clearly exhausted from a day of archaeomolgy work, and not wishing to answer many questions.

Mum's package arrived the next day before Bingo and I left for school. At the same time, Lucky's Dad also got a package. Both packages looked basically identical, so it was hard to tell whose was whose. But Bingo and I didn't have time to tell them apart, because we needed to go to school. So we did.

At school, near the end of the day, my class and I went to the computer lab for computer class. Our assignment was to create our own version of the weekly 'Friday Memo' detailing how we would want the next week to look. The actual memo we were shown looked like this:

Monday: Band practice cancelled. No practice today due to termite infestation in the band room.

Tuesday: School Spirit Day! Show you care by wearing the school colors (red and blue).

Wednesday: CHEERLEADER TRYOUTS TODAY! Anyone wishing to try out must: possess some level of athletic abilities. Have the school cheer memorized. Have a lot of pep in your step. (meet in the gym after school, and remember to wear gym shoes)

Thursday: Cricket practice re-scheduled. Please report to the field for an early practice, TODAY ONLY. Pep rally 2:30 in the gym.

Friday: Yearbook photos taken today. Please dress appropriately and remember to smile.

So, with all this in mind, we all set about making our own memos. And while everyone had their own stuff I could go into, my version of the memo read as follows:

Monday: School cancelled. No classes today due to lack of interest.

Tuesday: NATIONAL WEAR PURPLE UNDERPANTS TO SCHOOL AND PICK YOUR NOSE DAY! Show you care by wearing purple underpants to school(and picking your nose).

Wednesday: CHEERLEADER TRYOUTS TODAY! Anyone wishing to try out must: use skunk juice in place of deodorant. Draw a mustache on your face in permanent marker. Wear a hot pink tutu and a tiara. (meet in the gym after school, and remember to wear high heels)

Thursday: Cricket practice re-scheduled. Please report to the teachers' lounge for an early practice, TODAY ONLY. Food fight 12:15 in the lunchroom

Friday: Yearbook photos taken today. Please wear whatever you wore for Halloween last year. Also, whoever strikes the best pose in their picture wins a free pizza party at Chutney Chimp's Family Fun World for their whole class.

 However, at one point, there was a mix-up with the memo that was sent back to the principal's office, and the one I made. Which led to some very farcical events later on. But before I can tell you that story, there's something else I have to go into.

Before work, Mum sprayed herself with the perfume she got earlier. Then, she went to work as usual. However, she caught sight of a few of her coworkers laughing at her for some reason. But then, her boss called her to his office. When she got there, he said, "Mrs Heeler, I want to talk to you about that paint on you" "What paint?" Mum asked. Her boss then pulled up a full-length mirror, to reveal green spray paint on her armpits and under her snout. Mum gasped, as that was exactly where she had sprayed her 'perfume'. "So," said her boss, "What do you have to say about this?" Mum was nervous. And all she could say in that moment was, "Wh-HOW DID THIS HAPPEN!" "Questioning how this happened is NOT an appropriate answer!" said her boss, "NOW GET BACK TO WORK!" So she did.

The following week of school was definitely one of the weirder ones we'd had in a while. First, no students showed up for school on Monday. But, the teachers didn't seem to notice. That was, except Mrs. Retriever. "HEY!" she asked, "WHERE IS EVERYBODY TODAY!?" but everyone else shrugged it off and went right on teaching. On Tuesday, everyone did show up. WEARING PURPLE PANTS! "Why is everybody picking their noses?" asked Mrs. Finger, the art teacher. On Wednesday for some reason, the school seemed to smell like skunk juice (especially the kids who were trying out for Cheerleaders). And those same kids also seemed to become fans of hot pink, as evidenced by the hot pink tutus they were wearing. "Well," said Mrs. Ricardo, the Cheerleading teacher, "that's the style I guess". Thursday was even crazier than all the rest of the days put together. "THERE'S A FOOD FIGHT IN THE LUNCHROOM! Shouted Mr. Armstrong, the music teacher, "And the Cricket team is destroying the teachers' lounge!". And as for Friday...apparently there was some mix-up involving the dress code and the yearbook photos. "OUR SCHOOL PICTURES ARE RUINED!" shouted Miss Koingsburg, the Yearbook Teacher. But on the plus side, my class and I got to go to Chutney Chimp's Family Fun World afterwards thanks to Coco winning the pose contest!

And I have to say, the party was probably the best one I had been to there. (next to Chloe's 7th birthday) Honey even got her fan mail answered in the 'to the letter' segment of the show, and I finally beat my high score in Jurrassic Park Arcade!

When we got home from the Pizza Party on Friday, the cause of all the trouble was finally explained. It turns out, Mum had ordered perfume at the same time Lucky's Dad ordered spray paint to finish a mural he was painting. Unfortunately, there was a mix-up of parcels. Meanwhile, the memo me and Bingo wrote for class was mixed up with the actual memo. So, Mum's perfume and Lucky's Dad's spray paint were switched back, and the mural was completed.