The next morning in school I told Mrs. Romano about my new invention.
Then I showed her Molly's pink flower.
"Why, Iggy," she said. "What a marvelous idea!"
"Can I put the flower on your glasses?" I asked.
Mrs. Romano nodded so I wrapped the wire stem around the frames of her glasses.
When she put the glasses on, everyone started laughing.
"Mrs. Romano, you look funny with a flower sticking up from your glasses!" cried Evan.
"Well, at least I won't lose them," said Mrs. Romano, smiling.
But when Mrs. Romano went to feed the goldfish, the flower fell off her glasses.
It tumbled right into the fish tank!
Lauren scooped it out.
"Iggy!" cried Molly.
"You promised to take care of my flower.
You didn't tell me it was going to get wet!"
"I'm sorry," I said.
"I didn't think it would fall into the fish tank."
We put the flower on a sunny windowsill during art class so it would dry.
When we came back from art, Mrs. Romano suggested that someone else try the Fabulous Glasses-Finder.
"Let me try it!" said Kristin.
That's when things really started to go wrong.
First the flower fell over Kristin's eyes and she couldn't see.
She bumped into a desk and nearly fell over.
Then the wire stem kept sticking her in the head.
"Ouch," said Kristin, rubbing her head.
"This thing hurts."
Soon Kristin got tired of wearing the flower on her glasses.
Lauren said she would wear it next.
I attached the flower to Lauren's glasses at recess.
She was in line for the slide when she leaned over to tie her shoe.
That's when the flower stem got caught on Ruby's sweater.
"Help! We're stuck together!"
cried Ruby, trying to step away.
"Stand still!" cried Lauren. "You're pulling my glasses off."
"And you're ripping my sweater!" said Ruby.
I finally got Ruby and Lauren unstuck.
After that, Lauren didn't want to wear the flower on her glasses anymore.
"That flower is nothing but trouble," she said.
I hated to admit it, but Lauren was right.
The Fabulous Glasses-Finder was not my greatest invention.
In fact, it was one of my worst!
The next day in school, we wrote down our invention ideas for Mr. Bright.
He was going to announce the winner at the school assembly.
Mrs. Romano said we could write down two invention ideas if we wanted to.
But I didn't even have one invention I was excited about.
I raised my hand.
"Yes, Iggy?" said Mrs. Romano.
"I don't have a good invention to write about," I said.
"What about your Fabulous Glasses-Finder?" said Mrs. Romano.
"It's a very original invention, Iggy."
"Except that no one liked it," I mumbled.
"It doesn't work that great."
By now I was feeling a little sorry for myself.
"I liked it," said Mrs. Romano.
"Even though it did fall into the fish tank."
I knew Mrs. Romano was only trying to make me feel better.
But I wrote about the Fabulous Glasses-Finder anyway.
Ruby wrote about a rubber glove filled with sand.
You could bend the fingers to hold rings or notes.
Evan had an idea for an automatic fish-feeder.
"You can feed your fish, even if you're away on vacation," he explained.
"That's a really neat idea," said Colby.
"Very inventive!" agreed Mrs. Romano.
Molly wrote about a way to cut socks and use them as hand-warmers.
And I, Iggy, wrote about a stupid glasses-finder that no one wanted to use!