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Story time

Posted Aug9-10 at 12:14 AM by Math Is Hard
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When I was in kindergarten a local author lady came to our class to read us a book she had written.

The story was about a little boy whose parents were going away on a long trip. Before they left, they gave him a box of crackers. His mom told him, "Eat one cracker every day, and when the box is empty, Daddy and I will be home."

So his parents left, and the little boy obediently ate his single cracker every day. As the weeks went by, he began to miss his mom and dad very much. One day, he missed them so much, that he ate all of the rest of the crackers, hoping that would bring them home right away.

Within minutes, his parents came through the door. The little boy was overjoyed, and he ran to hug them. His mom and dad hugged him back, but then with a disappointed look, they let go, and then stepped backwards toward the door.

"I'm sorry," they said, "but because you disobeyed, and ate all the crackers, now we must leave forever."

The parents turned and walked away, and the little boy never saw them again.



Isn't that a pretty messed up story to tell little kids? I wonder if that lady ever got her book published.
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    cronxeh's Avatar
    baahahahaha.
    Posted Aug9-10 at 12:19 AM by cronxeh cronxeh is offline
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    Math Is Hard's Avatar
    I don't think the story lady ever got invited back to read to us again.
    Posted Aug9-10 at 03:29 PM by Math Is Hard Math Is Hard is offline
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    Redbelly98's Avatar
    Besides that being a bad story to tell a kindergarten class, it comes down on the "wrong" side of something I have appreciated more and more as I get older: what happens when a literal interpretation of the rules contradicts common sense.
    Posted Aug9-10 at 09:31 PM by Redbelly98 Redbelly98 is offline
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    Evo's Avatar
    I wonder how many of your classmates were scarred for life by that story?
    Posted Aug13-10 at 02:12 PM by Evo Evo is offline
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    Math Is Hard's Avatar
    I think we all ended up with mild abandonment issues and possibly some obsessive complexes about following rules.

    But I guess that's better than having to learn the hard way that you should never, ever screw around with magical crackers.
    Posted Aug13-10 at 09:32 PM by Math Is Hard Math Is Hard is offline
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    that was horrible
    Posted Oct3-10 at 03:52 AM by odmart01 odmart01 is offline
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    Funny Mom dad!!!!!

    I hope they had left some vegetables instead of crackers .... then the kid would have obeyed them .... LOL
    Posted Mar25-11 at 06:24 AM by cupid.callin cupid.callin is offline