The infant class had settled down to its colouring books. Katherine went up to the teacher’s desk and said, “Miss Richmond, I ain’t got no crayons.”
“Katherine,” Miss Richmond said, “you mean, “I don’t have any crayons.’ You don’t have any crayons. We don’t have any crayons. They don’t have any crayons. Do you see what I’m getting at?”
“Not really,” Katherine said, “What happened to all them crayons?”
(Incidentally, were you aware that in the UK quite a large number of primary school teachers actually buy ‘extra supplies’ such as drawing paper, glue sticks and crayons for their pupils out of their own wages?)
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