9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for December 15, 2003

Transcript:

"Don't you think it's time, Mr. Van Hoesen, you took some direction in your life and chose a career?" "I'd rather not, sister." "I prefer to think of my future as 'rife with possibilities,' rather than 'sentence passed.'" "I was given detention for answering her question." "Welcome to the ranks of pertinence prisoners."