The Mousetrap
After the past few weeks, seems we could all learn something from this story...so take note..
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package.
What food might this contain? The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning :
There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!
The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, 'Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me.' ' I cannot be bothered by it.'
The mouse turned to the sheep and told him, 'There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!'
The sheep sympathized, but said, I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. 'Be assured you are in my prayers.
The mouse turned to the cow and said 'There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!'
The cow said, 'Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose.'
So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.
That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.
The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught.
The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital , and she returned home with a fever.
Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.
But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock.
To feed them, the farmer butchered the sheep.
The farmer's wife did not get well; she died.
So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.
The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.
So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't concern you, remember -- when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.
We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.
Oh QS ... farmer didn't kill the snake !! he rushed his wife to the hospital ... yes he might have killed the snake later on but till that time the mouse was gone ;-) and later farmer also died due to heart attack ....
We are all involved in this journey called life !
so the moral of the story: One day journey will end... so spread love n live with peace !
lol ... Scar gonna kill me now
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remind me never to come to your farm if its infested with snakes!!
and QT..yep there can be many sides to every story!!
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. --Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
that would be funny...but i think the man has killed this poor thing before his wife even passed away...so no chance for the snake to walk around with the trap on its tail!
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snake can move around with the mouse trap in his tail !!
just cracking jokes
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snake is in the Mousetrap! who will let it go alive???
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YOU DONT KNOW ME, DONT EVEN TRY !!!
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YOU DONT KNOW ME, DONT EVEN TRY !!!
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and later snake entered thru the crack in the wall and gulpped the mouse ...
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very instructive episode.. chain reaction.. you never know… as you said, when something happened somewhere, it might concern you at the point that you even cannot imagine!
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At the end it was no skin of the nose of the mouse, and no one cared about his problem, now all his friends on the farm are gone - poor mouse.
was this the one that kept you busy yesday :?
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And lol to QT's comments
Stay safe all.
Perfection does not exist. The question therefore, is: what level of imperfection are we willing to settle for?
If you want to eat chicken, mutton and beef... all you need is a mousetrap
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in sidebar yet, Paul. I'm new to QL though. You know you have one though if you took the time to type no......
hope to meet you once in Doha. Like your style! Thoughtfulness fills the cracks.
U never told me this story while u put me to sleep wen i was younger!! No wonder I turned out to be a brat(HEY WHO CALLED ME BRAT???!!!)
Sorry!
What about the poor farmer, who was trying to stop his grain from being eaten so he could provide for his lovely wife.
Only joking, I get the moral of the story, but there are two sides every dispute!
a lesson for us !
a lesson learned, indeed.
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent" -Eleonor Roosevelt
nice one scarlett, couldnt agree more .
Well Said.