A teacher gave her class of 11-year-olds an assignment: Get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it. The following day the kids came back and one by one began to tell their stories.
Ashley said, "My father's a farmer and we have a lot of egg laying hens. One time we were taking our eggs to market in a basket on the front seat of the car when we hit a big bump in the road, and all the eggs went flying and broke and made a mess."
What's the moral of the story?" asked the teacher. "Don't put all your eggs in one basket!", Ashley said.
"Very good," the teacher replied.
Next, Sarah raised her hand and said, "Our family are Farmers too and we raise chickens for the meat market. One day we had a dozen eggs, but when they hatched we only got ten live chicks; and the moral to this story is, 'Don't count your chickens before they're hatched'."
"That was a fine story, Sarah," said the teacher.
"Michael, do you have a story to share?"
"Yes Miss. My daddy told me this story about my Aunt Shirley. She was a flight engineer on a plane in the Gulf War and her plane got hit. She had to bail out over enemy territory and all she had was a bottle of whisky, a machine gun and a machete. She drank the whisky on the way down so it wouldn't break, and then she landed right in the middle of 100 enemy troops. She killed seventy of them with the machine gun until she ran out of bullets. Then she killed twenty more with the machete until the blade broke. And then she killed the last ten with her bare hands."
"Good Heavens!" said the horrified teacher, "What kind of moral can we learn from that story?"
"Stay away from Auntie Shirley when she's been drinking."
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