A first-grade teacher,
Ms. Brooks, was having trouble with one of her students. The teacher asked,
"Harry, what's your problem?"
Harry answered, "I'm too smart for the 1st grade. My sister is in the 3rd
grade and I'm smarter than she is! I think I should be in the 3rd grade
too!"
Ms. Brooks had had
enough. She took Harry to the principal's office. While Harry waited in the
outer office, the teacher explained to the principal what the situation was.
The principal told Ms. Brooks he would give the boy a test. If he failed to
answer any of his questions he
was to go back to the 1st grade and behave. She agreed.
Harry was brought
in and the conditions were explained to him and he agreed to take the test
Principal: "What is
3 x 3?"
Harry: "9."
Principal: "What is
6 x 6?"
Harry: "36."
And so it went with
every question the principal thought a 3rd grader should know. The principal
looks at Ms. Brooks and tells her, "I think Harry can go to the 3rd
grade." Ms. Brooks says to the principal, "Let me ask him some questions."
The principal and Harry both agreed
Ms. Brooks asks,
"What does a cow have four of that I have only two of?"
Harry, after a moment: "Legs."
Ms. Brooks:
"What is in your pants that you have but I do not have?"
The principal wondered why she would ask such a question!
Harry replied: "Pockets."
Ms. Brooks: "What
does a dog do that a man steps into?"
Harry: "Pants."
Ms. Brooks: What starts
with a C, ends with a T, is hairy, oval, delicious and contains thin, whitish
liquid?"
Harry: "Coconut."
The principal sat
forward with his mouth hanging open.
Ms. Brooks: "What
goes in hard and pink then comes out soft and sticky?"
The principal's eyes opened really wide and before he could stop the answer,
Harry replied, "Bubble gum."
Ms. Brooks:
"What does a man do standing up, a woman does sitting down and a dog does
on three legs?"
Harry: "Shake hands."
The principal was
trembling.
Ms. Brooks: "What word starts with an 'F' and ends in 'K' that means a lot
of heat and excitement?"
Harry: "Firetruck."
The principal breathed a
sigh of relief and told the teacher,
"Put Harry in the
seventh-grade, I got the last seven questions wrong.”