
John and Bill were best friends. One day they wanted to measure how big a stack of boxes was. They used a long stick and put it on top of the first box. It was very noisy! Then they put the stick on the second box and it was even bigger. 
John and Bill were so happy about their measuring stick that they decided to measure the stack again. But when they put the stick on the third box things went wrong. The stack of boxes started to tip over and fell down very noisily! It was a complete mess!
John and Bill were so sad that their measuring didn't turn out the way they wanted. They had to clean up the scattered boxes and their measuring stick won't be of use anymore.
