A teacher told her young class to ask their parents For a family story

with a moral at the end of it, and To return the next day to tell

their stories.

In the classroom the next day, Joe gave his example First, “My dad is

a farmer and we have chickens. One Day we were taking lots of eggs to

market in a basket On the front seat of the truck when we hit a big

bump In the road; the basket fell off the seat and all the Eggs

broke.”

The moral of the story is not to put all Your eggs in one basket..

“Very good,” said the teacher.

Next, Mary said, “We are farmers too. We had twenty Eggs waiting to

hatch, but when they did we only got Ten chicks.”

“The moral of this story is not to count Your chickens before they’re

hatched ..”

“Very good,” said the teacher again, very pleased with The response so far.

Next it was Barney’s turn to tell his story: “My dad Told me this

story about my Aunt Karen…. Aunt Karen Was a flight engineer in the

war and her plane got Hit. She had to bail out over enemy territory

and all She had was a bottle of whiskey, a machine gun and a Machete.”

“Go on,” said the teacher, intrigued.

“Aunt Karen drank the whiskey on the way down to Prepare herself; then

she landed right in the middle Of a hundred enemy soldiers. She killed

seventy of Them with the machine gun until she ran out of Bullets.

Then she killed twenty more with the machete Till the blade broke. And

then she killed the last ten With her bare hands.”

“Good heavens,” said the horrified teacher, “What did Your father say

was the moral of that frightening Story?”

The child said “Stay away from Aunt Karen when she’s been Drinking…”