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Weekly Contest #101
There once was a little boy who had trouble understanding the meaning of words. His dad explained that he needed to know what the word meant to understand it, but all this did was make him more confused. The next day, they were sitting at dinner when his mom said, “I’m going to get up and clear my plate.” “Clear your plate? What does that mean?” he asked his dad. He told me about how she would take her dish over and put it in the sink so no one else could use it. “I think I might be starting to get the hang of this language,” thought the lit...
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