I was born Booker T. Smartwell, but my friends all call me Book Smart. One of them painted this picture of me in art class. Funny thing is, I don't smoke and I hate books. In fact, I can barely read past the third grade level. Any big words you find in my story you are reading are because I use a book that has a whole bunch of big words inside. I think smart people call it a dictionary. Thank goodness for the spell check on my computer, since I'm not really a very good speller either. The last book I read was one of those Time magazine issues that are in the checkout lane at the grocery store. I was stuck behind a lady with a whole bunch of coupons. Then her debit card didn't work, swipe after swipe. Other shoppers were getting upset, but not me. I thought to myself, I should be using this time to do something useful, like read a book. They have a great selection of books at the checkout lane about things like weight loss, scandals, celebrities and more.
While I stood there waiting I picked up this book in the rack about World War II and started reading. Well to be honest, I was just skimming through the book looking at the pictures. Ok, it was really a magazine but it had words in it so I called it a book. I learned some great new facts about World War II that just blew me away. I probably should have paid more attention in school because I'm pretty sure Mr. Morgan talked about this in History class. He was in the army before he was a teacher. I had no idea that when they said "World War" they really meant World War. This was really a big deal and just about every country in the world was involved, except the country of South Pole. They were too far away I guess to send their army. I would bet they felt pretty stupid when they learned after the war was over that they were the only country that never pitched in. The other countries might be a little upset with them at the next countries of the world party and stick the folks from South Pole at the table in the corner and teach them a valuable lesson on chipping in.
Just then the lady with the coupons was finished and I had to make a decision about this book I was reading. Should I buy it and take it home and start reading? I decided to bend the corner page over and put it back in the rack, that way when I come back next time I can pick up where I left off. I just have to remember that I was in checkout lane 4.
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