Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for August 28, 1996
Transcript:
man: Looking for anything in particular? Nate: Yeah. A French-English dictionary. This diary is written all in French, and I want to translate it. woman: A diary? Whose is it? Nate: Whose? Uh...mine! It's mine! woman: You can't read your OWN DIARY? Nate: Whatever happened to "can I help you?"
All he had to do was NOT bring up the diary.