July 5, 2024
When my granddaughter Kaylin Marie was in the first grade she took her work very seriously. One day she brought home a paper that had the mark “one wrong”. The work sheet was a collection of scrambled words, which the students were to unscramble and write down the correct word. One was “h t i s”. The correct answer was to be “this”.
However, there is another word that fits. It is a slang word, but it is included in the New College Edition of the American Heritage Dictionary. The teacher, Mrs. Johnson, decided to mark the slang word “wrong”.
Kaylin’s mother was sharing this story with me at the dining room table and Kaylin was there too. After I was done laughing, Kaylin said, “Yes Grandpa, I looked at that paper and I said to myself, ‘What was I thinking’?”
Tomorrow is the 39th annual “Hagstrom Osberg Golf Tournament”. I plan on bringing my trusty old putter and a good attitude. Let’s hope that the rains hold off.
“I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone’s game. It’s called an eraser.” Arnold Palmer
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