Subject: Moral of the story
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> > The teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment: get their
> > parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it. The next
> > day the kids came back and one by one began to tell their stories.
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> > Kathy 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 pickup when we hit a bump in the road and all the
> > eggs went flying and broke and made a mess".
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> > "And what's the moral of the story?" asked the teacher.
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> > "Don't put all your eggs in one basket!"
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> > "Very good," said the teacher. "Now, Lucy?"
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> > "Our family are farmers too. But we raise chickens for the meat
> > market. We had a dozen eggs one time, but when they hatched we only
> > got ten live chicks. And the moral to this story is, don't count
> > your chickens until they're hatched."
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> > "That was a fine story Lucy. Johnny do you have a story to share?"
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> > "Yes, ma'am, my daddy told me this story about my Uncle Bob. Uncle
> > Bob was a pilot in Vietnam and his plane got hit. He had to bail out
> > over enemy territory and all he had was a bottle of whiskey, a
> > machine gun and a machete. He drank the whiskey on the way
> > down so it wouldn't break and then he landed right in the middle of
> > 100 enemy troops. He killed seventy of them with the machine gun
> > until he ran out of bullets, then he killed twenty more with the
> > machete till the blade broke and then he killed the last ten with
> > his bare hands."
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> > "Good heavens," said the horrified teacher, "What kind of moral did
> > your daddy tell you from that horrible story?"
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> > "Don't Mess with Uncle Bob when he's been drinking."
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