What Did You Learn?

 

Our cute grandson Gabe is a character.  It takes a tremendous amount of effort to get him out the door in the mornings to catch the bus for school.  He likes to dawdle.  One morning Shonna reminded and reminded and reminded and he still wasn't even dressed.  His sisters left for the bus stop without him.  Finally, Shonna said, "If you miss the bus you will have to walk to school."  It was very cold and snowy outside.  She then went in her bedroom and hoped against hope that he would hurry.  Finally she could hear him ready to go, so she ran out and gave him a hug, then watched as he ran up the hill at the same time the bus was climbing the hill to the bus stop.  When he didn't come back, she assumed he had made it.

That afternoon after school, she asked if he had made it and he said yes.  She then asked him, "What did you learn?"  He thought for a minute and said, "I learned I can run as fast as the bus."  Sigh.  That wasn't exactly what she was hoping for.