Two little mice

27th August 2009
Donnerstag

This is a common story which almost everyone has heard before. But here is it again, with a twist to it.

There were two mice who fell into a bucket of milk. The first mouse thought : "Oh, life is always hard on me. I will be dead before the evening is over." Having resigned to his fate, he stopped struggling and prepared to drown.

The second mouse, equally shaken by this unexpected milk bath, kicked the first mouse in the bollocks and made him tread milk. "The last thing I would allow is to have a dead mouse in my milk bath. Quit whining and start swimming."

So with that kick to his bollocks, the first mouse started swimming for dear life.

With both mice working hard at splashing milk, the milk was soon churned to butter, and both of them clambered out of the pail and onto the kitchen floor.

The second mouse was happy to be alive, and scrambled off to the safety of his home. Whereas the first mouse said, "That was hard work! Now I should be entitled to some well deserved rest, after working so hard." With that, he laid down and took a nap.

While the mouse was sleeping, the resident feline chanced by, and decided to kill some mouse for kicks.

And so, the mouse died.

Moral of the story: When you think you have come a long way, and deserve a rest, think again. Is it really time for you to lay back and enjoy a pint of beer?