People,

I got an email the other day from someone in Oklahoma who happened across the diary and read a bunch of entries. Her comments were mostly positive, but she asked "why so many entries about poop?" Good question.

I used to work a lot with kindergarteners. I treated this job essentially as a forum for practicing stand-up comedy material. Breaking the kids up was my main goal. And I tried all kinds of things - silliness, made up words, slapstick, etc. But the thing that you just can't fail with when you're trying to crack up a five year old is, you guessed it, poop.

I remember one day I made a pretty good (IMHO) crack about poop and, pardon the expression, the kids lost their shit. One of the kids was my favorite, he had a very deadpan way of saying things that was completely and unintentionally hilarious. While everyone else was still laughing and looking at each other as if to say "I can't believe he just said 'poop'!" this kid looked me right in the eyes, shook his head and said "Joe, poop is always funny."

So, Debbie from Oklahoma, that's why. I figure that if it's good enough for the K-1 set, it's good enough for me.

PS. They also think farts are very funny. I mean, really funny...