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Children and their manners
Polite Way to Pee
During one of her daily classes a teacher trying to teach good manners,
asked her students the following question:
"Michael, if you were on a date having dinner with a nice young lady,
how would you tell her that you have to go to the bathroom?" Michael
said, "Just a minute I have to go pee."The teacher responded by saying,
"That w ould be rude and impolite.
What about you Peter, how would you say it?"
Peter said, "I am sorry, but I really need to go to the bathroom. I'll
be right back. That's better, but it's still not very nice to say the
word bathroom at the dinner table. And you, little Johnny, can you use
your brain for once and show us your good manners? "I would say:
Darling, may I please be excused for a moment? I have to shake hands
with a very dear friend of mine, whom I hope you'll get to meet after
dinner."
The teacher fainted......
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
~Gilbert Highet
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