Friday Funny #21

July 17, 2009

Until a child tells you what they are thinking, we can’t even begin to imagine how their mind is working.

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Little Zachary was doing very badly in math.

His parents had tried everything…tutors, mentors, flash cards, special learning centers. In short, everything they could think of to help. Finally, in a last ditch effort, they took Zachary and enrolled him in the local Catholic school.

After the first day, little Zachary came home with a very serious look on his face. He didn’t even kiss his mother hello. Instead, he went straight to his room and started studying. Books and papers were spread out all over the room and little Zachary was hard at work. His mother was amazed. She called him down to dinner. To her shock, the minute he was done, he marched back to his room without a word, and in no time, he was back hitting the books as hard as before.

This went on for some time, day after day, while the mother tried to understand what made the
difference. Finally, little Zachary brought home his report card. He quietly laid it on the table, went up to his room and hit the books.

With great trepidation, his Mom looked at it and to her great surprise, little Zachary had gotten an ‘A’ in math. She could no longer hold in her curiosity. She went to his room and said, “Son, what was it that changed? Was it the nuns?”

Little Zachary looked at her and shook his head.

“Well, then,” she replied.”Was it the books, the discipline, the structure, the uniforms?”

He shook his head again.

“WHAT WAS IT?” she demanded.

Little Zachary said, “On the first day of school when I saw that guy nailed to the plus sign, I knew they weren’t fooling around.”

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