Children
The Fourth of July weekend was coming up, and the nursery school teacher took the opportunity to tell her class about patriotism.
"We live in a great country," she said. "One of the things we should be happy is that, in this country, we are all free."
One little boy came walking up to her from the back of the room.
He stood with his hands on his hips and said, "I'm not free. I'm four."
A teacher asked her students what religious objects they had in their homes.
One boy answered "We have a picture of a woman with a halo holding a baby and every day my mother kneels in front of it."
The next little boy said "We have a brass statue of a man seated with crossed legs and a Chinese face, and every day my parents burn an incense stick before it."
Then a third boy piped up: "In the bathroom we have a little platform with numbers on it.
Every day my mother stands on it first thing in the morning and screams "OH MY GOD!"
A teacher asked the class to write about an unusual event that happened during the past week.
Little Johnny got up and read his essay. It began, "Daddy fell into the well last week."
"My goodness!" the teacher exclaimed. "Is he all right?"
"He must be," said the boy. "He stopped yelling for help yesterday."