"Math assignment: Convert the following amounts between cups, pints, quarts, and gallons."

                       "I think I'd rather just live with approximations."

"Father says we don't use our imaginations enough. He says that when he was our age, he played telephone with two cans on a long string."

     "Poor Father...  It must have been embarrassing to admit a thing like that."

                           "I'm home alone, and I think I hear burglars."

                                  "I was right!  They're trying to break in!"

 "I know--  I'll drop the entertainment system on their heads, just like that kid in the Home Alone movie--"

                                               

                                                      "YESSSSS!!!"

                             "Oh no!  They're loading it onto the truck!"

     "Why do these things never work out the way they do in the movies...?"

                  "For Easter this year, Father got us a couple of rabbits."

                                        "Of course, that was yesterday!"

                                                    "Oops..."

                            "Well, really...  I'm the one who fell downstairs!"

              "Oh, look...  Mother and Father are watching TV. Good!"

                                "That means they're not watching me!"

       "Math assignment: Explain the concept of minus zero. Oh, that's easy..."

                                                 "Just erase."