009 .. human nature and other mysteries
This one could've been a whole lot worse. Good thing I'm not stupid enough to let everything out once we're chums. (You're still a pompous waste of skin, Crane, you've just got the added excuse of bein' out of your mind.)
While you're all sorting yourselves out, all these flood ideas about how folks "ain't so bad" put me in mind of an old story I've been turnin' over in my head since I landed up here:
A farmer went out for a little walk one winter, and while he was strollin' on his way he found a snake on the path, stiff with cold, nearly dead. The snake had bright, beautiful colors, the signs of a poisonous critter, and the man was gonna give it the usual wide berth. But the snake lifted its little head and said "Oh please, sir, it's so cold an' I'm about to freeze. Please take me in your jacket and bring me inside, to warm me in front of the fire."
"You're poison," said the farmer, "and you'll bite me, and I'll die." But the snake begged and pleaded so that the man scooped him up into his jacket, and took him home to warm.
The man took the snake home to warm in front of the fire - but no sooner had its body thawed out, of course, that the snake bit down on his hand, and slithered free. "Why did you bite me?" said the farmer, "I helped you, I was kind to you."
"Y'all knew I was a snake when you picked me up, idiot." And it left the farmer to expire.
Discuss amongst yourselves.
While you're all sorting yourselves out, all these flood ideas about how folks "ain't so bad" put me in mind of an old story I've been turnin' over in my head since I landed up here:
A farmer went out for a little walk one winter, and while he was strollin' on his way he found a snake on the path, stiff with cold, nearly dead. The snake had bright, beautiful colors, the signs of a poisonous critter, and the man was gonna give it the usual wide berth. But the snake lifted its little head and said "Oh please, sir, it's so cold an' I'm about to freeze. Please take me in your jacket and bring me inside, to warm me in front of the fire."
"You're poison," said the farmer, "and you'll bite me, and I'll die." But the snake begged and pleaded so that the man scooped him up into his jacket, and took him home to warm.
The man took the snake home to warm in front of the fire - but no sooner had its body thawed out, of course, that the snake bit down on his hand, and slithered free. "Why did you bite me?" said the farmer, "I helped you, I was kind to you."
"Y'all knew I was a snake when you picked me up, idiot." And it left the farmer to expire.
Discuss amongst yourselves.