Page 22 - Publishing Inspiration Christmas Card 2009

Let A Sleeping Grouch Lie

Rod always fell asleep in class. It didn’t

matter if it was math, English, or science. Ten

minutes into the class, and he was sound asleep.

A person might think he had a sleep problem.

He did, actually. It was called not going to bed

before 2:00 in the morning. The teachers tried

talking to him about it, and he always promised

to do better, but he never did.

In math class he would lay his head down

on his desk, and soon he was out. One day he

fell asleep and rolled his face onto the wire

rings of his notebook. When he woke up, he

looked like mini train tracks had been laid

across his face. But that wasn’t near as funny

as the day he laid his head down in the middle

of his history book. The ink in the book must

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