The Night I Flunked My Field Trip #5 (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
Frankie is the magician, and we’re the assistants. There’s this one trick Frankie does where he cuts a rope in two pieces and drops it into a top hat. He waves a magic wand over the hat and says, “Zengawii,” which is his magic word he learned in Zimbabwe. When he pulls the rope out of the hat, it’s back in one piece! As I sat there with the book One Hundred Most Useful Nautical Knots in front of me, I wished I knew a magic word that would make the stupid rope I was staring at tie itself into a knot. “Zengawii!” I muttered, giving the coiled rope a kick. Nothing happened. “What’d you say?” asked Collin. “I said Zengawii, which in Zimbabwe means why did they make these dumb directions so complicated?” Collin laughed. “We’ll get it, buddy. Just read me the steps.” We were trying to tie a hitch, which is the kind of knot you use to tie a boat to the dock. You’d think that would be easy enough. But noooooo! Turns out there are cleat hitches and clove hitches and rolling hitches and half hitches and other kinds of hitches you never even dreamed of.
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