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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

«Innocence of a Child»

As a grade-school assignment, one little girl drew this when asked to draw a picture of what she wanted to be when she grew up.
When I Grow up... I what to be like mommy!
The teacher sent a note home with the student asking about the odd drawing and a note accompanied the child the following day explaining the drawing's meaning:

Dear Mrs. Severson,

I wish to clarify that I am not now, nor have I ever been, an exotic dancer.

I work at Home Depot and I told my daughter how hectic it was last week before the blizzard hit. I told her we sold out every single shovel we had, and then I found one more in the back room, and that several people were fighting over who would get it. Her picture doesn't show me dancing around a pole. It's supposed to depict me selling the last snow shovel we had at Home Depot.

From now on I will remember to check her homework more thoroughly before she turns it in.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Anita Sampson

Moral of the story: Don't forget to check your child's homework!

Yes, this story is all over the internet. So what? Now it's here, too. I'm sure it's new to some of you.

6 comments:

  1. Oh, sure. Of course that's a shovel. Anyone can tell that.

    Vid

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  2. it looks like a great shovel to me


    Stefan

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  3. @ Stefan: Yeah, it's very common for children to draw objects at a larger scale than people. That is how a child would draw a shovel.

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  4. That's nothing; my little sister's best friend in grade school cheerfully told the teacher when asked that she wanted to be a prostitute when she grew up. I guess that's what we get for having the house of Lola Montez ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_montez ) as one of the major landmarks in our town (my fourth grade class even went there for a school field trip, seriously).

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  5. I thought the drawing was of a person digging a grave, but if it's a snow shovel, that's cool too, I guess...

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