Chapters 5 through 9 Summary

In Chapter 5, Armpit and X-Ray get into line for Kaira DeLeon tickets, Armpit bringing with him an economics textbook so he can study for an exam he has later that day. Behind them are several street people who, it turns out, have been paid by a pair of professional scalpers named Felix and Moses to stand in line for them. After X-Ray and Armpit buy their tickets (six each, which aren't as good as X-Ray planned they'd be), the guys talk to Felix, who tries to convince them to sell them their tickets at a good price, his arguments triggering, for Armpit, sudden insight into the economic process. X-Ray refuses Felix's offer, convinced that he and Armpit will be fine on their own. Later, while dropping Armpit off at school, X-Ray asks for more money to put an ad in the...