Period

"Period"*

*The kindergarten class had a homework assignment
to find out about something exciting and relate it to the class the next
day.

When the time came for the little kids to give their
reports, the teacher was calling on them one at a time.

She was reluctant to call upon little Johnny, knowing
that he sometimes could be a bit crude. But eventually his turn came.

Little Johnny walked up to the front of the class, and
with a piece of chalk, made a small white dot on the
blackboard, then sat back down. Well the teacher
couldn't figure out what Johnny had in mind for his
report on something exciting, so she asked him just what that was.

"It's a period," reported Johnny.

"Well I can see that," she said. "But what is so exciting about a period?"

"Darned if I know," said Johnny, "but this morning my
sister said she missed one. Then Daddy had a heart
attack, Mummy fainted and the man next door shot himself."
Received on Wed Dec 2 12:14:19 2009