As a teacher, I always include the question, “What is the one thing you were ready to answer that I didn’t ask? Ask it and answer it.” on every test I administer.It is amazing how many times the students impress me!
And it took me three decades to forget that particular short-story classic inflicted on my in my tender youth – which I had successfully done – until this week’s strip . . . I can still see those waxy, white stiff fingers in my mind’s eye all over again.
“UP” is an animated movie from a few years ago that featured a bitter old man who had to move to make way for a thoroughfare. Rather than have his house demolished, he strapped a gazillion helium balloons to it and just sailed away from all his problems . . .
@The SpanishInquisition We all produce gas . . .You know what one gas bubble said to the other? “Should we go up and be burps? Or stay down and be stinkers!”
@ Susan SunshineThank you. You made me laugh out loud AND you made me become a member so I could tell you so. . .(I’m not actually a joiner or commenter)
As a teacher, I always include the question, “What is the one thing you were ready to answer that I didn’t ask? Ask it and answer it.” on every test I administer.It is amazing how many times the students impress me!