Mistakes Were Made

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of bullying.

Timmy and his mother have to move, and he imagines a huge apartment with lots of space for his office work and a marble entrance with columns. Meanwhile, he decides that Molly must be the culprit in the toilet paper incident because she is a “tiny person” and has toilet paper in her house.

Timmy’s dreams are dashed when he and his mother move into a one-bedroom apartment in a high rise. Timmy has a pull-out bed in the den, and his office is now the apartment hallway next to the garbage chute.

Timmy imagines that the Segway is hidden deep within the earth, beyond a maze and behind vicious guard dogs. He starts sending mail to Corrina Corrina, with the address “where evil resides” (143), but none of the mail makes it to its destination. Timmy tries to buy a laptop so he can email her instead, but he doesn’t have the $1,200 needed to buy one. He asks his mom for it, but she just assumes he must not be thinking clearly. Timmy’s next option is to head to the library, which is run by a librarian nicknamed “Flo.