"Yesterday, when we were playing tag, Peek--" Jonathan began. "Peek? Like peek a boo?" I interrupted. "Or peek as in peek a pack of pickle peppers?" Jon added. "So anyway, Peek realized that I was standing off to the side as if I had been tagged--" Jonathan continued his story.
"Tagged as in tag sale?" I asked and sipped my coffee. "Uh, huh, really, wow this is a really exciting story," Jon added. Jonathan kept talking as if we were silent and attentive. "Peek suddenly stopped, touched me and said, "you've been eliminated." Jonathan finished the story and stood grinning broadly. "Eliminated- that was so funny."
Jon and I stopped drinking our coffee and we both turned and looked at him in silence for a few seconds. "Oh, so eliminated is the punch line? That was really funny," I said. Then Jon and I looked at each other and I said, "one, two three--" and we burst into laughter.
Anyone who thinks home school parents aren't preparing their children for the real world are wrong. Dead wrong.
