Stephanie Says
June 8, 2010
Once when she was little, Stephanie had a project in school where the teacher had them represent what they would do if they had a million dollars by cutting out pictures from magazines and catalogs. It was a weekend project and on Monday morning she was so proud of herself she volunteered to go first. Her teacher embarrassed her when she pointed out Stephanie’s major flaw with the assignment. In her project she wrote “I will travel to…” and had pictures she had taken from the travel section of the LA Times. Her teacher said that since she didn’t have a million dollars and probably never would the proper tense would have been “I would travel to…” Hearing this error, Stephanie’s little girl ego felt like a failure the rest of the day. When it was time to take the assignment home, she looked through her book and realized that everything she had wanted to do with her pretend million dollars wouldn’t happen at all so she came home and threw it away.
