The boy and the snake

[old bear]

Faulkner, thanks for the reminder. I've got a S.I.L. who's been needy all her life. Does the helpless little girl thing for the family, and the T & A, (does it very well, thank you) thing for the nearby male population. For the last month I've been getting massive doses of both.

 

[Faulkner]

I know snakes can talk. . . .

As Eve discovered to her everlasting misfortune.

 

[BC38]

I learned it as a frog and a scorpion crossing a creek - frog carrying the scorpion on his back. Half way across the scorpion stung the frog, and the frog said, "Why? Now we'll BOTH die."

Scorpion said, "You knew my nature when you made the deal".

Actually that is one of Aesop's Fables and when the frog asks why, the scorpion simply says, "It's my nature..."

Basically the moral of the story is that it is foolish to expect others to act contrary to their nature.

We would be well advised to apply this wisdom to our present day society IMO.