At the start of an important trial, a small town attorney called his first witness to the stand. She seemed like a sweet, elderly woman. He approached her and asked, "Mrs. Jones, do you know me?"
She responded, "Why, yes, I do know you Mr. Williams. I've known you since you were a young boy. You've become a huge disappointment to me. You lie, you cheat on your wife, you manipulate people and talk about them behind their backs. You think you're a hot shot lawyer, when you haven't the brains to realize you never will amount to anything more than a two-bit paper pusher. Yes, I know you."

The fourth-grade teacher had to leave the room for a few minutes.
When she returned, she found the children in perfect order. Everybody
was sitting absolutely quiet.

She was shocked and stunned and said, "I've never seen anything like
it before. This is wonderful. But, please tell me, what came over all
of you? Why are you so well behaved and quiet?"

Finally, after much urging, little Sally spoke up and said, "Well,
one time you said that if you ever came back and found us quiet,
you would drop dead."