In response to daily post’s one-word prompt : Capable
There once was a man in Naples
who boasted he was capable
Of changing the world
with one swirl
But alas he was wrong that weird man of Naples!
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365 Writing Prompt: All grown up
When was the first time you really felt like a grown up(if ever)?
I was always curious about everything. I think I was eight years old, my Dad hired a new teacher for my younger siblings, he was employed to teach them Urdu.
One day I wanted to see how my siblings were doing, there they were repeating every word that their teacher was saying, the teacher knew the whole book by heart. He had his eyes closed and in a sing song tone was reciting the words.
Something to me wasn’t right I thought, my siblings I didn’t believe could read, they were able to repeat what their teacher was saying. I waited for them to complete the lesson for that day, when they came out, I grabbed my sister I told her I didn’t think any of them could read, after continuous repetition they were able to deceive me by opening the book and pretended to know they can actually read.
I told my sister, “I bet you cannot read it.”
She insisted she can , I said: “then read.”
I opened a page in the book and asked her to read.
She said, “I want to start from the first page.”
I was convinced none of them learned to read.
I told her if she can read what difference does it make if I open the book at any page, she should be able to read. My sister stayed quiet, there was nothing she was able to say.
I went to Dad and told him the teacher does not know how to teach and my siblings after all these months cannot read a single word. They can read without opening the book. You know what that means they have memorized the whole book.
My Dad was upset, he immediately fired the teacher .
That day onward I felt like a grown up I was able to point out to my Dad that the teacher he hired for our younger siblings was not capable of teaching!
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