The Moral of the Story

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A 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."  The moral of my story is, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket!"

"Very good," said the teacher.

Next little Lucy raised her hand and said, "Our family are farmers, too. But we raise chickens for the meat.  We had a dozen eggs one time, but when they hatched we only got ten live chicks and the moral to this story is, don't count your chickens until they're 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 Marge. She was a Pilot during 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.  So .. she drank the whiskey on the way down so it wouldn't break. Then she landed right in the middle of 100 enemy troops. She killed 70 of them with the machine gun until it ran out of bullets! Then she killed 20 more with the machete till the blade broke; then she killed the last 10 with her bare hands."

"Good heavens!" exclaimed the teacher, "what kind of moral did your daddy tell you from that horrible story?"

"Stay away from Aunt Marge when she's been drinking."

Entry #910

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Avatar truecritic -
#1
I won't trust Aunt Marge even when she's sober! LOL
Avatar CARBOB -
#2
I can relate to Aunt Marge. This story reminds me of my sister. She and her husband had been married about 4 or 5 years. I was about 15 years old when this happen. I was woke up one Sunday morning, about midnight, with people talking on the front porch. I got up, went out on the porch, it was my sister and her husband, Bob, and mom. Bob and sis had been out drinking. Somewhere along the line, Bob decided he wanted to beat up sis. You have to understand, my sister grew up with 6 boys, she was no wimp. He wound up with one eye completely shut and the other one was almost as bad. He said to my mom. Any woman that can beat me up, I don't want to be married to her. I'm giving her back to you. A true story. Thanks EM!!for reminding me, about the incident. They were married 60 years, when he died. He was like a brother, not a brother-in-law.
Avatar sully16 -
#3
LOL, Good one Emily.

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