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On top of that, after Greg returns from school, Susan quickly uncovers the scheme when Rodrick tries to cash in every single Mom Buck Greg gave him as a down payment on a motorcycle, and as a result confiscates all of Greg's Mom Bucks, even his real ones. Unfortunately, Greg realizes on the bus that the assignment is very badly written, realizing that Frank started doing Rodrick's homework for him once he started high school and is unable to turn in anything for his History class. When Greg fails to do his history homework, he decides to borrow an old assignment from Rodrick and pay him $20,000 in Mom Bucks ($200 in real money). Their father Frank discovers that the new door doesn't lock, but to Greg and Rodrick's relief, he does not realize that it has been replaced.Ī month later, while Greg was at Rowley's house playing board games, Greg notices Rowley has play money identical to that of "Mom Bucks" in one of the board games and takes it home to put under his mattress. They swap the door in the bathroom with a closet door just as their parents come home. When Greg goes to the bathroom to take a shower, he realizes that someone wrote on the back of the door with a permanent marker. After the party ends the next day, Rodrick forces Greg into helping him clean up by threatening to reveal his secret. However, Rodrick jumps off the couch, calls every friend of his, and throws a party, locking Greg in the basement for the whole night. One time when Rodrick is ill, the parents leave Greg and Rodrick in charge of the house, thinking that Rodrick will not throw a party in his ill state. Rodrick has an upcoming science project that he would prefer to do on ' Gravity', but he clearly shows no effort or interest, and asks his family members to do it for him. Rodrick immediately spends all of his money on some heavy metal magazines, while Greg carefully and sensibly manages his cash.
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Luckily for him, he gets away with passing it on to a new student named Jeremy Pindle.īecause Rodrick and Greg constantly nag Susan about having no money, she starts a "Mom Bucks" program to get Greg and Rodrick to get along with each other. After Rodrick puts him in the back of his van and finds every speed bump in town because their mother Susan wants Rodrick to pick him up after swim practice and school, he drops Greg off at school but Greg finds out he still has the Cheese Touch from last year. At the start of the book, Greg Heffley explains how bad his summer vacation was in which after being signed up with the swim team without his consent, he had to deal with practicing at 7:00 AM, being the worst swimmer on the team, being forced to wear his brother Rodrick’s skimpy hand-me-down racing speedo to save money while everyone else wears baggy swim trunks and his older brother Rodrick annoying him about a secret that Greg is trying to keep.