Fortunately... But Unfortunately...

This story and plate is sent in by Joyce in Texas. Thanks for sharing! (Story taken from her husband's blog http://lostfart.blogspot.com/2007/02/fortunately-but-unfortunately.html ):

All three of our sons had Mrs F as their first-grade teacher, a very proper lady whose straight spine and large hair were equally stiff. Each year, sometime during the spring semester, Mrs F religiously gives an assignment called “Fortunately ... but Unfortunately ...”. In this exercise Mrs F presents each child with a folded piece of 8.5x11-inch card stock with the word “Fortunately ...” written just beneath and on the outside of the fold. Opening the fold reveals the words, “but unfortunately ...”. The assignment for the child is to write two short sentences: one on the outside under the word “Fortunately ...”, and the other on the inside under the category “but unfortunately ...”.

I guess James, six years old at the time, got a little creative with his project. Joyce was called in to meet with Mrs. F while volunteering at school to show her what her son had created. Her husband continues:

Looking at the folded card stock Joyce reads:
Fortunately ... I have a BODM [bowel movement]

Opening the fold she reads: but unfortunately
...I FRTIID

Joyce adds: ...with a picture of said BODM, and little circles for the expressed air.

So in honor of their boy, and Mrs F, they got this plate. Well done indeed James! Hilarious story. To hear what happens to James next click on over to his dad's blog, The Last Fart of Blogging.