Any time you start school is a major occasion for any child. For the most part it is a mixture of nerves, excitement when you start, and (if you’re lucky) a good chuckle as you start to write. Sometimes, children’s remarks can catch us totally by surprise and bring us back to the utterly unpredictable and hilarious world of the childhood.
For example, consider this tale.
It was the first time she was going to a new school. The teacher warmly greeted her before asking her name.
She smiled wistfully, “Happy Butt.”
Of course, the teacher was shocked. Her whisper was soft, ‘I don’t think that’s you real name, honey.’ You’d mind going to the principal’s office and resolving this?
So she left.
“What’s your name, sweetheart?” the principal asked her again.
Her response? “Happy Butt.”
The principal, however, continued to be perplexed so she then decided to call her mother. “Hang up the phone, little girl, your name is Gladys not Happy Butt,” he said politely as he tipped his head down, leaned towards the little girl.
She smiled without skipping a beat and answered, “Happy Butt, Glad Ass — big whoopee!”
The characters at an Australian language school were given ‘the imaginative assignment,’ by a teacher to ‘construct a sentence with green, pink and yellow’??
Japanese student Kukoya took his chance and held his hand up.
Early this morning as I glanced out the window, I noticed the PINK roses and GREEN grass in the garden, said he. Step out of door and I could feel the warm sunlight.
The instructor gave a nod. “Gorgous! Who will be next?
Weng from Singapore was the first to raise his hand, and the teacher hesitated.
“All right,” the instructor said.
I heard the phone say, GREEEEN, GREEEEN, this morning,” Weng said as he got up. I noticed, that when I PINKED it up, I said, “Yeah!”
Not all children like school, and at least one young girl said it very clearly.
She begged, she wept, she made all kinds of reasons against returning on Monday for all the weekend.
Sunday, she and her dad were still on brunch and her dad finally had enough. He drove over, turned around, “Honey, it’s the law.” If you do not attend school they will have your father jailed.
She paused and appeared contemplative. “As long as it would take.” was then inquired.
There is a special ability children have to make routine school days into memorable experiences, first days that are miserable or successful, sidetracked language lessons or asking brutally honest questions.
And truthfully? We benefit from it.