1. The narrator has a terrible day where everything seems to go wrong. He wakes up with gum in his hair, trips on his skateboard, and drops his sweater in the sink. 2. Throughout the day, his friends seem to have good luck finding prizes in their cereal and snacks, but he has no such luck. At school, his teacher likes his friends' work more than his. 3. By the end of the day, he has been scolded by his mother, gotten a cavity at the dentist, and is forced to wear plain sneakers. He concludes that it has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.