One day a father was teaching his son and said, “The key to your success is keeping your word and clever. Once you give somebody a promise, you must carry it out no matter what happens. This is called keeping one’s word.”
“What is clever?”asked his son.
“Clever is that never making such a promise,”the father answered.
Go to heaven
School teacher: All those who want to go to heaven put your hand up? What about you Terry? You didn’t put your hand up.
Tery: Mum told me to go straight home.
Essay
The teacher made his class write an essay on “A game of football”. After two minutes Simon handed his paper in and was allowed to go home. He had written: “Rain stopped the play.”
Much worse
Policeman: Why didn’t you shout for help when the robber took your watch?
Man: If I had opened my mouth, they’d have found my four gold teeth. That would have been much worse.