Close, but not quite

Friday afternoon is a good time for laughter, right? Freshmen are always a good source for that. Case in point...the following story.

We are reading a book about the Holocaust entitled I Have Lived a Thousand Years. The people in the book have recently arrived at Auschwitz (probably just misspelled that...sorry) and are adjusting to life there. The class conversation was about specific examples from the book that can relate to the theme of the strength/resilience of the human spirit. One young woman brought up the part when the author sees a girl in line in front of her menstrating with nothing to stop it. Gross, yes. That led to a converation about other embarrassing situations that the women had to endure. One such situation was when the women had all their hair shaved off (and I do mean ALL, which is an important detail to this story) and then had to undress and go into the showers.

Young male student: "Yea, I didn't understand why they said they shaved their hair and public areas. Why didn't they say "private" areas?"
Young female student(who sits across the room from the young gentleman, so she has to speak up to have him hear her): "It didn't say "public," it said "pubic".
Young man: "Oh...."
Me (while laughing): "And that, everyone, is a perfect example of what a difference one letter can make"

Great laughter erupted all around. I joined in. Really, how can you not laugh at that? Luckily it was right before lunch, so I didn't have to get them calmed down because I'm sure that would've taken a few minutes.

Just thought you might get a kick out of the glimpse into Mrs. McIntyre's room at 11:55 am today.