Monday, January 08, 2007

Amoral to the Story

The teacher gave her sixth grade class an assignment: Get their parents to tell them a story with a moral. The next day the kids came back and one by one began to tell their stories.

"Johnnie, do you have a story to share?" the teacher said, getting to her most troublesome student.

"Yes ma'am," he said.

"My daddy told a story about my Grandpa. He was a pilot in World War 2 and his plane got hit. He had to bail out over enemy territory and all he had was a flask of whiskey, a pistol and a survival knife.

"He drank the whiskey on the way down so the bottle wouldn't break and then his parachute landed right in the middle of twenty enemy troops. He shot fifteen of them with the gun until he ran out of bullets, killed four more with the knife, till the blade broke, and then he killed the last German with his bare hands."

"Good Heavens" said the horrified teacher. "What kind of moral did your daddy tell you from this horrible story?"

"Stay the hell away from Gramps when he's drinking!"