Once, an old
man and his grandson had business to attend to in the next village,
and used their little donkey as transportation. They started
out with the elderly man riding and the younger man leading the
animal with a rope around the burro's neck.
However, along
the way, the boy developed a blister on his foot and began to
limp slightly.
It didn't take
long for observers along the way to shake their heads and chastise
the old man for making the limping boy walk while he rode. So
they switched.
At the next crossroads,
the crowd scolded the young man for riding while his elderly
grandfather trudged along in the dust. So the two of them both
climbed aboard, and guess what?
Right! People
criticized them for being cruel to the little burro! So what
else could they do but dismount and walk together?
We don't know how the story ends, or whether they even got to
where they were headed, but they must have been tired and sore
by the time they got there.
Are you going
to be an ass or ride one?