The Story Teller

In a small barrio in the North, there are three boys namely Tino, Edong and Pilo. Just like the other boys in the barrio, they go to the public school. But unlike the other boys, they are a mischievous bunch who simply can’t keep still. They always go fooling around the barrio, making fun of their neighbors and other practical jokes that may not seriously harm other people but enough to irritate anybody they decided to make fun with.

The most annoying thing that they normally do is to come late for class in the morning with unkempt hair, smelly shirts and soiled feet. They have the habit of playing around somewhere before finally going to school which makes their kind teacher, Ms. Morales, annoyed. What is more annoying is that when asked what they were up to, they always come up with stories of doing good deeds to someone or something. They are just very good liars that they always sound as if they are telling the truth and that you have no way of proving otherwise. This makes Ms. Morales very frustrated.

This morning, as they were going to school late again, they were debating about what alibi to give to their teacher who they know,  was already waiting and looking for loopholes in their story. They finally agreed on giving a lame carabao for an alibi.

Ms. Morales was waiting for them when they arrived and patiently listened while they told her about how they helped a lame carabao that hurt one of its legs. Ms. Morales simply nodded her head then finally asked them to sit in each corner of the classroom and gave each of them a piece of blank paper. When they were comfortably seated, Ms. Morales told them to write on the piece of paper about the carabao they helped and which of the carabao’s four legs was hurt.

The teacher smiled at the three boys. She knew she had them this time. There is no way they could identify the hurt leg because she knew there is no carabao..

Moral lesson: You can’t fool anybody ALL the time…

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