Summary

Greg decides to use one of his parents' parenting techniques, reverse psychology, on his mom and dad. Greg has been asking for a phone from his parents for what feels like forever. He tells them it's okay that he doesn't have a phone because he's probably not ready for that responsibility anyway. Almost immediately after Greg tells his parents that, his mom goes into Greg's room and tells him she is upgrading her phone and is giving her current phone to him. Greg is shocked that his experiment works as quickly as it does.

Greg's mom sets ground rules, such as sharing the phone with Manny and no texting with friends. Greg writes that texting with his friends won't be an issue because he doesn't have any friends at the moment. However, he is not happy about sharing the phone with Manny...