A teacher gave her
class of 11 year olds an assignment: To get their parent to tell them
a
> >> >story with a moral at the end of it.
> >> > >
> >> > >The next day the kids came
> >> >back and one by one began to tell their
> >> > >stories.
> >> > >
> >> > >Ashley
> >> >said, My father's a farmer and we have a lot of egg-laying
> >> > >hens.
> >> > >One time we were taking our eggs to market in a
> >> >basket on the front
> >> > >seat
> >> > >of the car when we hit a big bump in the
> >> >road and all the eggs got
> >> > >broken.
> >> > >
> >> > >What's the morale of
> >> >that story? asked the teacher.
> >> > >
> >> > >Don't put all your eggs in one
> >> >basket!
> >> > >
> >> > >Very good, said the teacher.
> >> > >
> >> > >Next
> >> >little Sarah raised her hand and said, Our family are farmers
> >> > >too.
> >> > >But we raise chickens for the meat market. One day we
> >> >had a dozen
> >> > >eggs,
> >> > >but when they hatched we only got ten live
> >> >chicks, and the moral to
> >> > >this
> >> > >story is,
> >> > >
> >> > >'Don't
> >> >count your chickens before they're hatched'.
> >> > >
> >> > >That was a fine
> >> >story Sarah.
> >> > >
> >> > >Michael, do you have a story to share?
> >> >
> >> > >
> >> > >Yes. My daddy told me this story about my Aunty Sharon. Aunty
> >> >Sharon
> >> > >was a flight engineer on a plane in the Gulf War and her plane
> >> >got
> >> > >hit.
> >> > >She had to bail out over enemy territory and all she had
> >> >was a bottle
> >> > >of
> >> > >whisky, a machine gun and a machete. She drank
> >> >the whiskey on the way
> >> > >down so it wouldn't break and then she landed
> >> >right in the middle of
> >> > >100
> >> > >enemy troops. She killed seventy of
> >> >them with the machine gun until
> >> > >she
> >> > >ran out of bullets. Then she
> >> >killed twenty more with the machete until
> >> > >the blade broke. And then she
> >> >killed the last ten with her bare hands.
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >Good heavens,
> >> >said the horrified teacher, what kind of moral did
your daddy
tell you from that horrible story?
Stay the f**k away from Aunty Sharon when she's been drinking.