Drabble by Kevin Fagan for February 09, 2014

Norm, hold these boxes!

In a Junior High English class, several students were assigned parts of a play and were reading the lines aloud. One amiable fellow had the part of the son and had the line “Good night, dad!” (Read like an exasperated exclamation). He read it “Good night dad!” (Read like he was going to bed). The whole class, including the teacher, was completely useless for five minutes, spurred on by the bewildered look on his face.

That’s why Coke bottles used to have “open other end” on the bottom.

@Hekko, exactly what I was thinking-much easier to open himself than explain to Norm.@ChessPirate, My story of a clueless player from HS days was when they still had written “black” dialect (in the 50s); my drama partner was a black girl who was not familiar with ANY kind of dialect or such. The result was not mirth producing, but was an embarrassment. The girl read it as well as she could, but it would have been better had we just been able to switch roles.