Thursday, March 06, 2025

No Spoon, Radio

A young boy with little blond curls bows at his teacher and presents an apple which he places on her desk. As he walks away, the apple starts ticking.
April 8, 1966
I research one-room schoolhouse and the early days of public schools and the stories I read about the mischief pulled on the teachers is always interesting. Usually it's not very violent though. And never have one of the student tried to blow up the teacher.

Brutus is sitting at a table with a bowl in front of him. He is apparently stirring whatever is in the bowl. "Sigh. It's the story of my life. I have a nice hot bowl of tomato soup and we're out of clean spoons," Brutus says as he pulls out what he's stirring with, revealing it to be a fork.
Can Brutus just not wash a spoon? Do the Thornapples just throw away all their dirty silverware?