I told him, I told my son,
don’t ever ever ever aim that BB gun
at anything you don’t want to hit.
Because you might not think you
will be able to hit that something,
but you just never know…

So, what did he do? He aimed that ‘ole
BB gun at a bluebird – thinking that he’d
never be able to hit something so small,
and he then he pulled the trigger,
and guess what? He shot that bluebird dead –
it was as lifeless as a string of dead fish .

And, then guess what? He felt so bad,
so very bad, that I didn’t have the heart
to say “I told you not to do that.”
So, on that day he learned a valuable lesson –
sometimes, even when you’re a young teenage
boy – you need to listen to your Mama.
She knows things that you don’t.