Saturday, September 14, 2019

The Anecdotes


Enjoying the Thirdlanders.  Two fun anecdotes:

Anecdote 1:

I was blowing tunelessly on my harmonica as we walked up to the cafeteria on Friday. I stopped playing the song I was spontaneously creating and said to a kid near me, "Don't you think the harmonica has a fabulous sound?"

He nodded and said, "Usually people play it in their jail cells."

Anecdote 2:

A quiet Thirdlander surprised me by signing up to share at morning meeting. When his turn came, he told us, "2 days ago I started using deodorant."

This led to a discussion of deodorant, which was interesting.

Those are the anecdotes of the week.


3 comments:

Judy said...

The deodorant conversation will be remembered forever by these kids.
jw

KC said...

These are both FIRE anecdotes. Keep em coming. But, no pressure.

Julie said...

OMG. I don't know if I could've kept from laughing about the deodorant. I probably would've damaged the kid forever.

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