 Tales of Jerry the germ. My name is Jerry, and I'm a harmful germ I used to live on a boy named Susio. Susio means dirty in Spanish As you may have realized, Susio is very dirty. My life was magnificent because Susio almost never washed his hands or showered. This meant that I get more powerful every day. He formed boils on his hand and made him very sick. Sometimes I invited my germ friends to have a party. A few months ago I invited Salman, Ella, and Ed Kohlwein for some fun. We were having a cool time until one fateful day Susio's mom took him to a special doctor. He took one look at Susio and asked him, do you wash your hands? To which Susio replied, no. The doctor asked again, do you shower every day? No. He said, looking down at the colorful patched carpet on the floor. The doctor gave Susio some advice and then popped out a few boils on Susio's hand. On the way home he was all bright-faced like he just ate a yummy waffles with extra syrup. And at home I found out exactly why. Right when he got home he washed his hands and all my germy friends were washed away down that old rusty and silver drain. The next day he showered and almost washed me off. Thank God he didn't succeed but he did make me weak. The fall passed so next came winter. On cold and windy day Susio went to play in the snow. By now I was very miserable and weak. So guess what? I just blew right off Susio's hand while he was making a cool snowman. From then on Susio became limpio which means clean and Spanish and never got boils or sick again. So kids shower every day and wash your hands. Be limpio. Be clean.