Books in motion

“We had a set of encyclopedia (purchased from a door-to-door salesman when our oldest child was a baby),” wrote my friend Judy McKeehan.

Eventually the kids stopped using the set. But Judy’s teacher husband, Mike, wanted them for his classroom.

“We live next door to the school he was teaching in so he decided that the easiest way to transport them to his classroom was to have the children in his class each pick up one and carry it to the classroom.

“So, with permission, he brought his kids here to collect them. He set up a route — down stairs, pick up a book, go through his study, loop through my art studio, go back upstairs, and return to school with a volume.

“Shortly after this efficient process began, he began to hear giggling from the students as they passed though my studio.”

How come? “I had a nude on the easel.”

Oh.

“Mike had to prepare the principal for the possible phone calls. None came. Our theory is that the kids figured that if they didn’t tell on us, they’d get invited back.”