Now that friends pass on their copies of The Reader's Digest to me I've found the column It Pays to Increase Your Word Power helpful. While the words are often basic they provide material for my volunteer work at Noble Academy. The Hmong students, about 75% of the student body, have rather limited vocabularies because their parents are English language learners who do not have generations of speaking English behind them. The multiple choice format is useful as I teach vocabulary to my students.
Then, there's Reader's Digest's monthly Humor in Uniform page. It's to this page I'm contemplating a submission. Let me try it out here to see if readers think it might make R.D.
When I was in Marine Boot Camp in San Diego, our platoon was assigned a week of mess duty (KP in Army speak). While I was serving food the discipline platoon, for recruits in trouble, came through the line. I asked one recruit why he was in discipline. He said "I have leg problems." Incredulous I asked, "You're being disciplined for leg problems?" "Yes" he said "they keep running away."
What's your take? Is it worth sending to R.D?
Watching TV is not in my repertoire of gifts...it's just not something I've mastered. There are a few sporting events I do watch. Tonight the Minnesota Gopher's Volleyball team is playing in the NCAA Final Four. They meet Stanford at 8:30, and the winner will go to the championship game to play the winner of the match between Baylor and Wisconsin who are playing at 6:00,. A full evening of volleyball accounts for an early post of this blog.
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Al
PS Marine' and Navy' Boot Camps in San Diego were separated by a chain link fence. A Navy recruit, with leg problems 😃, attempting to run away ended up on our (Marine) side of the fence. Likely he didn't do that again.
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