Airplane trip

On an airplane trip, I sat next to a woman and her five-year-old grandson.

When I mentioned that I was a teacher, she asked him to count backward.

He started: “20, 19 , 18 , 17 …”

“That was wonderful”, I said. “Did you learn that in school?”

“No, at home. From the microwave”, he answered.

(Reader’sDigest, July 1994).