The Koala Report

Yesterday Will got home late and upset. He'd been working on an animal report, and he'd lost the rough draft. Knowing it was due the next day, he'd tried to recreate it, but when I read through it, I was disturbed by the fact-to-fiction ratio. Truth has been an ongoing issue with him this year, and it is too often passed over in favor of an embellished story. So in the koala report, the part about koalas getting flung out of eucalyptus trees had to go, as did the part where babies pinch their parents noses while sleeping. Then there were the nonsequiturs like "I've eaten bamboo!" and "G'day mate!". It was pretty short afterward, like "Hostel" on Clearplay. We underlined each of the facts in his report, then we looked up koalas on the internet to fill it in.
We discovered that like many marsupials, male koalas have bifurcated penises. I told Will "It pays to do the research, because truth is always stranger than fiction." but he just said "Uh, Mom, could you stop talking about it? It's pretty gross." You know you've struck gold when you can disgust a third-grade boy!
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jenlinmin said…
Oh, MaryAnn, I love your way with words and aren't you blessed with such a fun, quirky family who give you so many opportunities to use this gift? Thanks, as usual, for the laughs!

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