“Don’t tell me you ate the cookies and the Girl Scout?” Gary John Collins, San Diego THE WINNER

THE FINALISTS

“Take Tad a seat, Muraoka, we’ll get online to you submission after COVID-19.”

“Don’t ‘Blarghhl bhhakkh!’ me!” Richard Lantz, Spring Valley

“Wait here. Ripley’s warming up the forklift.” Mike Comer, El Cajon

“You’re talking to her. I’m the leader in this house!” Maggie Pettit, Coronado

“Stanley, you’d better have two Snickers.” Kevin Donohue, San Diego

“With the work I put in, you better have won the costume contest.”

Steve O’lear, Lakeside

“You don’t scare me. I raised three kids and beat cancer. Now scram!”

Pat Swanton, Vista

“You gotta brush your teeth before you leave the house.” Evelyn Cutler, Carlsbad

“You don’t look anything like your profile picture.” David Wood, San Diego

“You’ve really done it this Newell time. Allen, Wait Poway until your father gets home!”

“I told you not to volunteer for those experimental drug trials.” Mark Blakey, Bonita

“Wipe that drool … I just waxed the floors!” Mark Palmerton, San Diego

“I know it’s you in there, Harry! That cheap aftershave gives you away.”

George Gildred, San Diego

“You’d better scram right now ... my husband will be home soon and he’s an avid insect collector.”

Michael Mcconnell, Tierrasanta

K-12 WINNERS

“I told you to do the dishes before you left.”

Max Innocenti, sixth grade, Muirlands Middle School “I’m sorry, do you mind putting on a mask?”

Ruhee Banthia, sixth grade, Muirlands Middle School

“Where are my thin mints?”

Charlene Nguyen, sixth grade, Good Shepherd Catholic School

“Honey, I told you Comic-con was next year!”

Noelle Estrellado, sixth grade, Good Shepherd Catholic School