Stories With Morals

[Karl/Pa.]

The teacher is telling the students about stories that have a moral. After explaining what that is, she asks if anyone has a story with a moral. Susie puts up her hand and says "We live on a farm and raise chickens. One of our hens laid 10 eggs and my dad thought we'd have ten more chickens but only 8 hatched. The moral of the story is Don't count your chickens before they're hatched."

The teacher praised Susie and asked for another story. Mary raised her hand and said "We live on a farm and raise chickens also. One day my dad took all the eggs into town in a big basket to sell them. On the way to town he hit a big bump and broke all the eggs. The moral of the story is, Don't put all your eggs in one basket."

The teacher praised Mary and asked for any more stories. Johnnie put up his hand and said "My Aunt Judie is a flight engineer in Iraq. One day her plane was shot down and all she could grab before bailing out was a bottle of whiskey and a machete. She didn't want to break the bottle of whiskey so she drank it on the way down. When she landed, she found herself in the middle of 100 Al Quada terrorists. She killed 70 of them with the machete before it broke. Then she killed the other 30 in hand to hand combat."

The teacher said "Thats a most interesting story but what is the moral?" Johnnie replied "My dad says the moral of the story is; Don't screw with Aunt Judie when she's been drinking."