Armed with supplies and some questionable advice, the Heffleys hit the road. Nevertheless they spray, scour, tape, glue, and bleach the old Class-C into serviceability. Only Greg, in Cassandra mode, pleads that “what we really need is a vacation from each other.” Why, they don’t even need to go home until their house is finished, however long that may be. Mom can record their travel adventures and become rich and famous “like one of those internet families.” And Dad can work-from-remote anywhere, as long as his computer has a signal. Immediately the Heffleys fly into a giddy fantasy about creating the best summer vacation ever. She asks her grandson (Greg’s dad) to help her dispose of Uncle Gary’s camper, which has been peacefully decomposing in her driveway for the past two years. After all, look what happened to her own mother.Īt this point Gammie, Greg’s great-grandmother, accidentally comes to the rescue. She has no intention of letting these poor relations get too settled (or even comfortable) in her home. Gramma never speaks and only appears in one panel, but it’s a panel that just radiates disapproval. And everyone has to be quiet all day, every day-as silent as if Gramma were hiding contraband down there. The Heffleys use the clothes washer and dryer as an illicit source of water and heat. One futon to be shared between Greg and Rodrick, his teenaged clod of a brother. One bed for Mom, Dad, and three-year-old Manny. Narrator Greg, the said Wimpy Kid, describes their plight in language both accessible and austere. Suffice it to say that in Volume 14 they remodeled and “improved” their house until they were broke and it was uninhabitable. It falls outside the scope of this entry to elaborate upon how they got there. The Heffley family of five is living in Gramma’s unfinished basement. The books might be shelved in either the Youth Fiction section or with Graphic Novels. The Deep End is the fifteenth volume of the best-selling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. In both you walk around exhausted, spending money you don’t have, while you look for a bathroom.” (-Jim Gaffigan.) “Being a parent is not that different from being a tourist. “Where’s MY vacation? All you did was take everything I do at home and put it on wheels.” (-Roseanne Harris Conner.)
“The problem with vacations is that wherever you go, there you are.” (-Anonymous) “Being sprayed by a skunk is absolutely the worst thing that can happen to you that does not make you bleed or put you in the hospital.” (-Bill Bryson.) “My wife always brings up that ‘camping is a tradition in my family.’ Hey, it was a tradition in everybody’s family until we came up with the house.” (-Jim Gaffigan.)
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