No Farts, Just Funny
As some of you might know, I have been teaching second graders very low-level economics once per week. So, this week, I was teaching styles of production. Assembly line and unit styles of production to be specific, and it was based on some fictional donut shop. There are all these little cardboard donuts, and stickers with ingredient names and crayons to color them. I got 5 kids to sit down and simulate making donuts for two minutes under both styles. They put stickers on for mixing ingredients, pop them out of the case for shaping, color to simulate flavoring and then a quality checker checks. They needed to “make” as many donuts as possible in two minutes.
So I had them try it in both production styles and then counted the results to compare. The funny part was that when I was counting the donuts, I was having them count with me as I transferred one donut at a time from my left hand to my right. So, as any group of second graders might, they started to count in rhythm and were taking for granted the fact that I was actually going to grab the next donut. Silly, trusting, ignorant little children! Do they know who they are dealing with? If they are going to hang with Craig, they are going to have to join the comedic big leagues!
So every now and then when they were ready to count the next one I would fake like I was going to grab the donut and then I would just stop my hand. They would continue counting, I would keep a straight face and stare menacingly into their midst. It was like a really mean version of simon says or something. For about one second, they were shocked and thought they were going to get yelled at or something, and then they just burst out laughing. I had the class cracking up. The teacher was shaking because she was laughing so hard. It was great. I don’t know if they learned anything, but it was fun. Moral of the story is, if you think you are unfunny, go find a second grader and do some of the most low-level slapstick you can think of and you will feel like Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey combined.
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