The teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment: Get their parents
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.
Kathy 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 pickup when we hit a bump in the road and all the eggs went
flying and broke and made a mess."
and what's the moral of the story ?" asked the teacher.
"Don't put all your eggs in one basket !"
"Very good" said the teacher. "Now Lucy ?"
"Our family are farmers too. But we raise chickens for the meat market.
We had a dozen eggs one time, but when they hatched we only got ten
live
chicks. And the moral of the story is, don't count your chickens until
they've hatched."
That was a fine story Lucy. Johnny do you have a story to share?"
"Yes ma'am. my daddy told me this story about my Aunt Karen.Aunt Karen
was a flight engineer in Desert Storm 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. She drank the whisky on the way down so it
wouldn't break and then she landed 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?"
Don't mess with Aunt Karen when she's been drinking."