come again?

picture: A giant pile of golden beads. A lovely set up for a real life representation of exchanging in the decimal system. Just what we all needed at age 5 so we could all SEE this math insanity and plant real seeds with material representation. (I love my job, duh.) AAAAnyway.

Child: "What are we gonna do with all this crap?"

::teacher eyes:: Say whaaaa?

Child: "Sorry, sorry, I mean shit. What are we gonna do with all this shit?"

::more teacher eyes:: (laughter brewing, hoping eyes are convincing)

Child: "SHtuff, this shtuff. What are we gonna do with all this shtuff?"

right. that's better.