The kindergarten class had a homework assignment to find out about something exciting
and relate it to the class the next day. When the time came for the little kids to
give their reports, the teacher was calling on them one at a time. She was reluctant
to call upon little Johnny, knowing that he sometimes could be a bit crude. But eventually
his turn came. Little Johnny walked up to the front of the class, and with a piece
of chalk, made a small white dot on the blackboard, then sat back down. Well the
teacher couldn't figure out what Johnny had in mind for his report on something exciting,
so she asked him just what that was. "It's a period," reported Johnny.
"Well I can see that," she said. "But what is so exciting about a
period." "Darned if I know," said Johnny, "but this morning my
sister said she missed one. Then Daddy had a heart attack, Mommy fainted and the
man next door shot himself."