Period

> A kindergarten class had a homework assignment to

> find out something exciting and relate it to the class the next day.

>

> When the time came to present what they'd found, the

> first little boy the teacher called on walked up to the front of the

> class, and with a piece of chalk, made a small white dot on the

> blackboard and

> sat back down.

>

> Puzzled, the teacher asked him what it was. "It's a

> period," he replied.

>

> "I can see that," said the teacher, "but what is so

> exciting about a period?

>

> "Darned if I know," he said, "but this morning my

> sister was missing one. Mommy fainted, daddy had a heart attack and

> the boy

> next door joined the Navy.

>