You Can't Please Everybody

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?


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