Dear Dumb Diary #7: Never Underestimate Your Dumbness Read online

  around that. )

  But I think I know what my Discovery Diorama

  is going to be about.

  It’s about what I’ve discovered about

  dumbness:

  1. It’s pure dumbness to give up a Taco

  Rendezvous, and it’s dumb to take the

  blame for something you didn’t do.

  2. It’s dumbness to think that you

  can invent a car or a plane or a

  microscope.

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  3. It’s dumbness that makes dogs and

  people fall in love. Whether you’re

  going to be crammed into a wedding

  dress or through a hole in a fence, love

  is a LOT of work.

  4. It’s dumbness that makes people

  collect things, give away puppies,

  decorate gyms, give gifts, love their

  stinky dogs, and dance like nobody is

  watching.

  5. And it’s dumbness that makes a person

  keep a diary.

  But sometimes the very best things that

  people do are done out of dumbness. So the

  smartest thing to do is to never underestimate your

  dumbness.

  Thanks for listening, Dumb Diary.

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  About Jim Benton

  Jim Benton is not a middle-school girl, but do

  not hold that against him. He has managed to

  make a living out of being funny, anyway.

  He is the creator of many licensed properties,

  some for big kids, some for little kids, and some

  for grown-ups who, frankly, are probably behaving

  like little kids.

  You may already know his properties: It’s

  Happy Bunny™ or Catwad™, and of course you

  already know about Dear Dumb Diary.

  He’s created a kids’ TV series, designed

  clothing, and written books.

  Jim Benton lives in Michigan with his spectac-

  ular wife and kids. They do not have a dog, and

  they especially do not have a vengeful beagle.

  This is his first series for Scholastic.

  Jamie Kelly has no idea that Jim Benton, or

  you, or anybody is reading her diaries. So, please,

  please, please don’t tell her.

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