Mr Bruce had been giving his second-grade students a short lesson on science.
He had explained about magnets and showed them how they would pick up nails and other bits of iron.
And now it was question time.
“Class,” he said. “My name begins with the letter ‘M’ and I pick up things. What am I?”
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A little boy in the front row said: “You’re a mother”.
A driver pulled up beside a rundown farmhouse.
A driver pulled up beside a rundown farmhouse.
He got out and knocked at the door. A very old woman answered the door, and he asked her for directions.
“Don’t know how to get there,” the woman said. He got back in his car and pulled away.
Then he heard voices. He looked in his rearview mirror and saw the woman and an equally old man waving for him to come back. So he made a U-turn and drove up to them.
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“This is my husband,” the old woman said. “He doesn’t know how to get there either.”
