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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Cleaning up after "artistic" kids
Message-ID: <225@unc.unc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 22:33:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: unc.225
Posted: Sun Aug 25 22:33:40 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 27-Aug-85 00:57:24 EDT
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Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Summary: 

In article <204@cylixd.UUCP> charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips) writes:
>
>We've just moved into a new house, and our little boy, who is
>going on two, decided to write on the walls in pencil.  How
>do you get pencil marks off painted walls?  I tried ....

This brings back a memory of when I was a pre-schooler,
and my sister was in the first grade.  We discovered that
scraping the point of a house-key against the wall would
produce a pencil-like mark.

I scribbled a few spirals (that was all I knew how to draw),
and my sister printed our names.  Later, when my parents saw it,
my father asked, "Did you write in pencil on that wall?"
I was to scared to answer, but my sister calmly replied, "No."
She stuck by her denial, despite my father's increasing frustration
and anger.

Twelve years later, my father mentioned this episode over dinner.
He remembers his bewilderment and disappointment that his daughter
had looked him in the eye and repeatedly delivered an obvious lie.
He had always known she was intelligent; even at age six she must
have been aware that no one else in the house could have been suspected.

My sister replied, "I told the truth.  I didn't write in pencil on
the wall.  I used a key."  My sister is now a lawyer.  It figures.

	Frank Silbermann