Thought this was cute

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My daughter sent me this yesterday and I tryed to post it on the back up site but could figure out how to cut and paste there. Thought you all might get a chuckle out of it.

Walk to School Timmy was a little five year old boy that his Mom loved very much and, being a worrier, she was concerned about him walking to school when he started Kindergarten. She walked him to school the first couple of days but then he came home one day and he told his mother that he did not want her walking him to school everyday.

He wanted to be like the "big boys." He protested loudly, so she had an idea of how to handle it. She asked a neighbor, Mrs. Goodnest, if she would surreptitiously follow her son to school, at a distance behind him that he would not likely notice, but close enough to keep a watch on him. Mrs. Goodnest said that since she was up early with her toddler anyway, it would be a good way for them to get some exercise as well so she agreed. The next school day, Mrs. Goodnest and her little girl, Marcy, set out following behind Timmy as he walked to school with another neighbor boy he knew. She did this for the whole week. As the boys walked and chatted, kicking stones and twigs, the little friend of Timmy's noticed that this same lady was following them as she seemed to do every day all week. Finally, he said to Timmy, "Have you noticed that lady following us all week? Do you know her?" Timmy nonchalantly replied, "Yea, I know who she is." The little friend said, "Well who is she?" "That's just Shirley Goodnest" Timmy said. "Shirley Goodnest? Who the heck is she and why is she following us?" "Well," Timmy explained, "every night my Mom makes me say the 23rd Psalm with my prayers 'cuz she worries about me so much.

And in it, the prayer psalm says, "Shirley Goodnest and Marcy shall follow me all the days of my life," so I guess I'll just have to get used to it.

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), May 02, 2002

Answers

that is weird........it was formated when I pasted but it shows up as all run together............sorry. hope you can enjoy it anyway.

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), May 02, 2002.

Diane,

You may think it is weird, but I think it is cute.

Thanks for posting.

Talk to you later.

-- Bob in WI (bjwick@hotmail.com), May 02, 2002.


Very funny!!! Maybe we all need a Shirley Goodnest to folow us around!!!!!!

-- Melissa in SE Ohio (me@home.net), May 02, 2002.

That's a good one!

-- Christine in OK (cljford@mmcable.com), May 02, 2002.

Diane, I thoroughly enjoyed that one. Thanks for the laugh. Jennathome

-- jennathome (normaj3@iwon.com), May 04, 2002.


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