A woman trailed by 15 kids of varying ages and sizes walked into the welfare office.
"Wow! What in the h---?" the social worker silently exclaimed to herself, and then quite audibly asked the woman, "Are they all yours?"
"Sho' is, they's all mine," the woman replied with a tinge of sarcasm in her voice after having been asked the same question for the 'nth' time.
The woman then hollered, "Sit down, Leroy." And each child rushed to find a seat.
'Well,' said the incredulous social worker, 'I'll need each child's name.'
"Well, th' boys is all named Leroy: L-E-R-O-Y, and th' girls is all named Leighroy: L-E-I-G-H-R-O-Y."
With utter disbelief scrawled all over her face, the case worker managed to keep from outrightly saying 'how stupid !' Instead as tactfully as she possibly could, she mused loudly: "How interesting! Every boy is 'Leroy' and every girl is 'Leighroy'...."
The woman countered,'It makes things much easier for me. When it's time to get 'em outa bed an' ready for school, I jes' yell, 'Leroy!' An' when it's time for dinna', I yell 'Leroy!' An' they all comes a runnin'. An' if I need to stop a kid who's runnin' to the street, I yell 'Leroy', an' all of 'em stop. Givin' 'em th' same one name is the sma'test idea yet.'
After the social worker turned the matter over in her mind for several seconds, with tightly knitted and furrowed eyebrows, she inquired, 'But what if you want only ONE kid to come, instead of the whole bunch?'
'Then I calls th' kid by his or her las' name. . .' the woman replied.
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