For a school fundraiser, Lyle’s second grade class was asked to do a funny little assignment. They were given the beginning of a common saying and asked to fill in the rest of it any way they wanted. Next, they were asked to draw pictures of four of them. Somehow artsy people will turn this into something to be auctioned off.
I wonder what they’ll make of my son’s contributions:
Lyle greatly enjoyed completing these phrases to the best of his ability.
1. Laugh and the whole world laughs with you; cry and you’ll end up laughing.
[Yep, that's my kid!]
2. If at first you don’t succeed, try try again.
[Damn. He's heard that one.)
3. You get out of something only what you hate.
[It would be nice if we could get out of things we hate, yes.]
4. A bird in the hand of doom.
[I've seen this five times and I still just snorted.]
5. Better late than never.
Here are the pictures he drew:
“Ahh! The pool!” This is a depiction of a child getting out of something he hates: swimming lessons.
See? Cry and you’ll end up laughing.
This amazing contraption is a futuristic car with individual doors for each passenger. That way the kids in carpool won’t push and shove their way out of the car every morning, but rather exit through their own door in an orderly fashion. I think he’s right: better late than never on this one.
And there you have it, folks. The bird in the hand of doom.
