(Anyone who has ever dressed a child will love this one!)
Did you hear about the teacher who was helping one of her kindergarten students put on his cowboy boots?
He asked for help and she could see why.
Even with her pulling and him pushing, the little boots still
didn't want to go on. By the time they got the second boot on, she had worked up a sweat.
She almost cried when the little boy said, 'Teacher,
They're on the wrong feet.' She looked, and sure enough,
They were. It wasn't any easier pulling the boots off than
It was putting them on. She managed to keep her cool as
Together they worked to get the boots back on, this time
On the right feet ..
He then announced, 'These aren't my boots.'
She bit her tongue rather than get right in his face and scream,
'Why didn't you say so?', like she wanted to. Once again, she
Struggled to help him pull the ill-fitting boots off his little
Feet. No sooner had they gotten the boots off when he said,
'They're my brother's boots. My Mom made me wear 'em.'
Now she didn't know if she should laugh or cry. But, she
Mustered up what grace and courage she had left to wrestle
The boots on his feet again.
Helping him into his coat, she asked, 'Now, where are your Mittens?'
He said, 'I stuffed 'em in the toes of my boots.'
She will be eligible for parole in three years.
on 2/27/09 6:58 PM, Jay Litwyn at brewhaha@edmc.net wrote:
(Anyone who has ever dressed a child will love this one!)
Did you hear about the teacher who was helping one of her kindergarten students put on his cowboy boots?
He asked for help and she could see why.
Even with her pulling and him pushing, the little boots still
didn't want to go on. By the time they got the second boot on, she had worked up a sweat.
She almost cried when the little boy said, 'Teacher,
They're on the wrong feet.' She looked, and sure enough,
They were. It wasn't any easier pulling the boots off than
It was putting them on. She managed to keep her cool as
Together they worked to get the boots back on, this time
On the right feet ..
He then announced, 'These aren't my boots.'
She bit her tongue rather than get right in his face and scream,
'Why didn't you say so?', like she wanted to. Once again, she
Struggled to help him pull the ill-fitting boots off his little
Feet. No sooner had they gotten the boots off when he said,
'They're my brother's boots. My Mom made me wear 'em.'
Now she didn't know if she should laugh or cry. But, she
Mustered up what grace and courage she had left to wrestle
The boots on his feet again.
Helping him into his coat, she asked, 'Now, where are your Mittens?'
He said, 'I stuffed 'em in the toes of my boots.'
She will be eligible for parole in three years.
Wonderful! (applause) :-). Thanks, Jay.
Marc
Subject-Was: And you thot you had problems with civility.
In case you did not guess, that was not a first-hand account of what is likely a true story if it does not closely resemble one. After some thought and research, I decided that parole was not a likely future for a teacher who managed to bite her lips from saying "Why didn't you say so?" It seems like a sensible question. The tone in which it would likely come is a problem, the question, not. "Do you have a reason for not saying so?" is a byte more thoughtful. So, instead of searching groups.google, where I expected it, I found it on the web. http://www.webenglishteacher.com/kindergartentchr.html
The punchline is not there.