JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for December 17, 2016
Transcript:
Joe: Marcy, just be honest with everybody... Marcy: This doesn't look like a reindeer? Joe: we got ourselves into debt and can't splurge on any christmas gifts this year. Joe: Trust me. Nobody wants an ornament we cut out of cardboard. whoa! who made the reindeer?
Grandma Green gave me a cardboard Teddy Bear playing an accordion.
I hung it on the wall beside my bed so I looked at it every morning and said, “A cardboard Teddy Bear?” and shake my head..
After a few months, I printed “DAVID 2” on it. The next year, I wrote in cursive “David Huie Green 3” under the first and then every year after through second year of college — with the appropriate grade, of course.
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My handwriting never changed.I also kept saying to myself every day, “A cardboard Teddy Bear?”