Little Johnny: "Dad, can I have a dollar, please?"
Dad: "Son, don't you think you're getting a bit old to ask for a dollar?"
Johnny: "Hmm, maybe you're right. Can I have five dollars?"
Little Johnny's mother was baking cookies one day. As she began to put a new batch in the oven, she suddenly noticed Johnny staring at the already baked cookies lying on the table.
"Johnny," she said. "Are you trying to take a cookie?"
"No," Johnny replied. "I'm trying not to."
The arithmetic teacher had written 10.9 on the blackboard and had then rubbed out the decimal point to show the effect of multiplying this number by ten.
"Johnny," the teacher asked, "where is the decimal point now?"
"On the eraser!" came back the quick reply.
Little Johnny had left the house to meet his friends without asking his mother. Once he came home, his mother was not pleased.
"Johnny," she said, "if you wanted to go to the park with your friends, why didn't you come and ask me first?"
"Because," Johnny replied, "I wanted to go to the park with my friends."