100 Below: Volume 31

Enormous Mrs. Apfelbaum turned her froglike gaze on Jimmy.

"Jimmy," she said, "I'm going to write a sentence on the board. I want you to change its meaning by adding a single word."

"Okay," said Jimmy.

Mrs. Apfelbaum rose like a dirigible and floated from her desk to her chalkboard. On the board, she wrote:

Become the man you've always wanted to be!

Mrs. Apfelbaum floated back to her desk and settled in her chair.

Jimmy thought hard. Then he went up to the board and added a single word in front of the teacher's sentence:

Ladies!

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Trivia: the above story was inspired by one of the many pieces of spam I receive daily.


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