“Did Alvin Presley die on the toilet eating a burger?”
Kids never fail to astound and entertain me, which is why I love them so much and why am still a big kid myself (even though at times I try and appear to be grown up and semi-serious.)
Linnie relayed a simply brilliant story to me today from dropping our youngest at school today which, whilst completely non-work related and left-field, is utterly brilliant and deserves to be shared.
The class had been set the task of drawing famous person from history in a frame. One child announced, “I’ll draw Henry the Eight” and set to the task with great gusto, colouring frocks and crowns and jewels. Another said, “I’m going to draw Nelson” and so appeared a stick man on a boat with one arm and a hat.
Our youngest, straightened out the paper he was to draw on, pulled out a pencil, pursed his lips and whispered enquiringly to his mum, “Mum, did Alvin Presley die on the toilet whilst eating a burger?”
And so the moral of the story is, success and fame can be destroyed and an individual brought down to earth in an instant by a child. So don’t get too big for your boots and just enjoy what you have!
